Display Case in 1.8.9

[IronCrystal]

Hello,

 

I'm first starting to mod in 1.8.9 and am interested in making a block that would change based on the block you use to right click on it.

 

I have a model working, and I used a texture I made for another block to test with, but I am wondering how I can take the texture of any block used on the block and display it?

 

In my json file for the model, I have a "cube" element which is what I want to change texture.

 

I believe I need to mess with the BlockState file, but looking at other blocks that change texture such as the brewing station, they created a bunch of different model files depending on the way it looks.

 

I don't see it being reasonable for me to make a different model file for every possible block that could be used on it.

 

Is there any way to dynamically change a texture on the model?  It uses 3 textures, I just need to change one of them.

 

[Draco18s]

You are going to need a TileEntity to store the block the player r-clicked with, for one.

 

For two, you're going to need to make the renderer for this block look up, then render, the mesh for the stored block.

[Notunknown]

As for rendering the item itself, I use this method:

 

GlStateManager.pushMatrix();
GlStateManager.translate((float)x + 0.5F, (float)y + 0.5F, (float)z + 0.5F);
Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderItem().renderItem(ITEM, TransformType.GROUND);
GlStateManager.popMatrix();

 

Not quite sure if this is the best method for doing this, but it does work perfectly fine. Of course you will need to replace ITEM with an ItemStack.

[IronCrystal]

So, if this was 1.7.10 I would understand that this goes in a render class.

 

I was following along some 1.8.9 tutorials since it seems a lot has changed for blocks and I'm not sure how to implement a rendering class since it seems to be handled by the blockstate.json and model json class.

 

I know the  renderer is being registered in this line:

 

Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderItem().getItemModelMesher().register(item, 0, new ModelResourceLocation(Modcraft.MODID + ":" + item.getUnlocalizedName().substring(5), "inventory"));

[Notunknown]

You need a TileEntity and a TileEntitySpecialRenderer. The TileEntitySpecialRenderer renders the item inside the block, and the model renders the block itself.

[Notunknown]

There is no need to make a TileEntity. You just have to create a special model that combines your model with the contained model.

 

Oh, I thought he wanted a block which contains an item.

 

I guess that you probably would not need a TileEntitySpecialRenderer in either case. But it is easier than trying to do it with models.

[IronCrystal]

I meant TESR, not TileEntity.

You do need a TileEntity, just not a TESR.

 

So, I am new to using TileEntities and TESR, but I looked for an example.

 

This is the result.

 

 

It seems to have overridden my default model rendering with the rendering of the tile entitiy...Is there any way to have the TESR render inside the block rather than instead of the block?

[Draco18s]

Post your Block code

[IronCrystal]

package net.modcraft.block;

import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.BlockContainer;
import net.minecraft.block.material.Material;
import net.minecraft.block.state.IBlockState;
import net.minecraft.entity.EntityLivingBase;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.init.Blocks;
import net.minecraft.inventory.InventoryHelper;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
import net.minecraft.util.BlockPos;
import net.minecraft.util.ChatComponentText;
import net.minecraft.util.EnumFacing;
import net.minecraft.util.EnumWorldBlockLayer;
import net.minecraft.util.IChatComponent;
import net.minecraft.world.World;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.registry.GameRegistry;
import net.modcraft.Modcraft;
import net.modcraft.init.ModcraftBlocks;
import net.modcraft.tileentity.ShowCaseTileEntity;

public class ShowCaseBlock extends BlockContainer {

private Block block;

public ShowCaseBlock(Material materialIn, String name) {
	super(materialIn);
	block = Blocks.air;
	setUnlocalizedName(name); //Required.  Don't edit

	this.setStepSound(Block.soundTypeMetal); //Sets the sound played when stepped on

	this.setCreativeTab(Modcraft.tabModcraft); //Sets the creative tab

	this.setHarvestLevel("pickaxe", 0); //Sets the tool and harvest level

	this.setHardness(1.5F); //Hardness of block.  Currently equivalent to stone

	this.setResistance(10.0F); //Resistance to explosions.  Currently equivalent to stone

	this.setLightLevel(0.0F); //How much light to give off.  0.0F is none, 1.0F is max.  Torch is 0.9375F

	//this.setBlockUnbreakable(); //Uncomment this line to make it unbreakable

	GameRegistry.registerBlock(this, name); //Required.  Don't edit

	ModcraftBlocks.blocks.add(this); //Required.  Don't edit
}

@Override
public boolean isOpaqueCube() {
	return false;
}

@Override
public EnumWorldBlockLayer getBlockLayer() {
	return EnumWorldBlockLayer.CUTOUT;
}

public Block getBlock() {
	return block;
}

public void setBlock(Block block) {
	this.block = block;
}

@Override
public boolean onBlockActivated(World worldIn, BlockPos pos, IBlockState state, EntityPlayer playerIn, EnumFacing side, float hitX, float hitY, float hitZ) {
	Block blockClickedWith = Block.getBlockFromItem(playerIn.getCurrentEquippedItem().getItem());
	if (blockClickedWith != null) {
		if (!worldIn.isRemote) {
			ShowCaseTileEntity te = (ShowCaseTileEntity) worldIn.getTileEntity(pos);
			te.setInventorySlotContents(0, playerIn.getCurrentEquippedItem());
		}
		/*this.block = blockClickedWith;
		IChatComponent message = new ChatComponentText("You clicked with block: " + this.block.getLocalizedName());
		playerIn.addChatMessage(message);*/
	}
	return true;
}

@Override
public TileEntity createNewTileEntity(World worldIn, int meta) {
	return new ShowCaseTileEntity();
}

@Override
public void breakBlock(World world, BlockPos pos, IBlockState blockstate) {
    ShowCaseTileEntity te = (ShowCaseTileEntity) world.getTileEntity(pos);
    InventoryHelper.dropInventoryItems(world, pos, te);
    super.breakBlock(world, pos, blockstate);
}


@Override
public void onBlockPlacedBy(World worldIn, BlockPos pos, IBlockState state, EntityLivingBase placer, ItemStack stack) {
    if (stack.hasDisplayName()) {
        ((ShowCaseTileEntity) worldIn.getTileEntity(pos)).setCustomName(stack.getDisplayName());
    }
}
}

 

I register the renderer with this:

 

public static void registerRender(Block block) {
	Item item = Item.getItemFromBlock(block);
	Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderItem().getItemModelMesher().register(item, 0, new ModelResourceLocation(Modcraft.MODID + ":" + item.getUnlocalizedName().substring(5), "inventory"));

}