So I'm creating a tile entity with a special renderer and am trying to render a cake block. Unfortunately it keeps crashing upon rendering. I'm getting a nullpointer exception when rendering the cake that seems to be caused by an error in the item stacks metadata. I've tried using a few different values for the metadata and looked at the BlockCake class but nothing works.

 

What am I doing wrong here?

 

Code that is being executed:

Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderItem().renderItem(new ItemStack(Blocks.CAKE), ItemCameraTransforms.TransformType.NONE);

 

Error:

 

Description: Rendering Block Entity

java.lang.NullPointerException: Rendering Block Entity
at net.minecraft.item.ItemStack.getMetadata(ItemStack.java:283)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.ItemModelMesher.getMetadata(ItemModelMesher.java:66)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.ItemModelMesher.getItemModel(ItemModelMesher.java:44)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderItem.getItemModelWithOverrides(RenderItem.java:253)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderItem.renderItem(RenderItem.java:246)
at com.darkhawx.planck.main.tileEntities.render.TileOvenRenderer.renderCake(TileOvenRenderer.java:123)
at com.darkhawx.planck.main.tileEntities.render.TileOvenRenderer.renderTileEntityAt(TileOvenRenderer.java:74)
at com.darkhawx.planck.main.tileEntities.render.TileOvenRenderer.renderTileEntityAt(TileOvenRenderer.java:40)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.tileentity.TileEntityRendererDispatcher.renderTileEntityAt(TileEntityRendererDispatcher.java:148)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.tileentity.TileEntityRendererDispatcher.renderTileEntity(TileEntityRendererDispatcher.java:123)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderGlobal.renderEntities(RenderGlobal.java:720)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.renderWorldPass(EntityRenderer.java:1369)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.renderWorld(EntityRenderer.java:1283)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.updateCameraAndRender(EntityRenderer.java:1092)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.runGameLoop(Minecraft.java:1140)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:404)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Main.java:118)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:135)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at net.minecraftforge.gradle.GradleStartCommon.launch(GradleStartCommon.java:97)
at GradleStart.main(GradleStart.java:26)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)

 

The cake block does not have an ItemBlock, hence it cannot exist as an ItemStack. You have to use Items.CAKE.

 

But I want to render the cake blocks model... Should I not be using my current method then?

 

Should I use: Minecraft.getMinecraft().getBlockRendererDispatcher().getBlockModelRenderer().renderModel() instead?