I wonder how would I go about doing this. I have an item that can hold stacks of items.

 

How do I render one of the items its holding on top the item itself?

I suggest looking at how

RenderSnowball

renders its

ItemStack

's model. You can also look at how Botania's altar renders its contents here.

I suggest looking at how

RenderSnowball

renders its

ItemStack

's model. You can also look at how Botania's altar renders its contents here.

Wow, so some items on Vanilla Render different from others in inventory, didn't know that, gonna take a look at the snowball as you suggested and see if I get an idea on how to implement that for my mod.

 

Thanks a lot.

I suggest looking at how

RenderSnowball

renders its

ItemStack

's model. You can also look at how Botania's altar renders its contents here.

 

Entity renders and TESRs have hooks that allow complete control of rendering. As far as I am aware, there is no longer anything like that for items.

I suggest looking at how

RenderSnowball

renders its

ItemStack

's model. You can also look at how Botania's altar renders its contents here.

 

Entity renders and TESRs have hooks that allow complete control of rendering. As far as I am aware, there is no longer anything like that for items.

 

I misread the OP, I thought they were making a block with a

TESR

that rendered a floating item. This won't work for an item displaying another item.

 

To render another item on top of your item, you'll need to create your own

ICustomModelLoader

,

IModel

and

ItemOverridesList

implementations. You'll probably also need an

IBakedModel

.

 

I can't tell you how to implement these, because I don't know myself. You'll need to look at examples in Forge itself, e.g.

ModelDynBucket

. diesieben07 has also discussed this with other people here and here, though a lot of the advice was for 1.8.9.