I want to spawn particles based on a given item stack (

EnumParticleTypes.ITEM_CRACK

/

EnumParticleTypes.BLOCK_CRACK

), trouble is, particles are client sided and the places in the code where I want the effects are all server sided. I created a method to spawn them so I didn't have to type out the code over and over, but that doesn't help the fact that it's the wrong side. I'm aware of

DataParameter

s, although since I need a given

ItemStack

and they only take booleans, ints, floats etc. (right?), I don't think they will be much use.

 

Here's the method so far, please help improve upon it

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public void spawnEatParticles(ItemStack stack) {
if(stack.getItem() instanceof ItemBlock) {
	Block block = ((ItemBlock)stack.getItem()).getBlock();
	for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
		this.worldObj.spawnParticle(EnumParticleTypes.BLOCK_CRACK, this.headPosition.getX() + (double)this.rand.nextFloat() - (this.getPosition().getX() - this.posX) - 0.5, this.headPosition.getY() + (double)this.rand.nextFloat() - (this.getPosition().getY() - this.posY), this.headPosition.getZ() + (double)this.rand.nextFloat() - (this.getPosition().getZ() - this.posZ) - 0.5, (this.rand.nextInt(6) - 3) / 5, 0.1, (this.rand.nextInt(6) - 3) / 5, new int[] {Block.getIdFromBlock(block)});
	}
}
else {
	for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
		this.worldObj.spawnParticle(EnumParticleTypes.ITEM_CRACK, this.headPosition.getX() + (double)this.rand.nextFloat() - (this.getPosition().getX() - this.posX) - 0.5, this.headPosition.getY() + (double)this.rand.nextFloat() - (this.getPosition().getY() - this.posY), this.headPosition.getZ() + (double)this.rand.nextFloat() - (this.getPosition().getZ() - this.posZ) - 0.5, (this.rand.nextInt(6) - 3) / 5, 0.1, (this.rand.nextInt(6) - 3) / 5, new int[] {Item.getIdFromItem(stack.getItem()), stack.getMetadata()});
	}
}
}

If you want code running on the server to trigger something on the client (or vice versa), you need to send a packet.

 

In this case, vanilla already has a method to do this for you:

WorldServer#spawnParticle

.

In this case, vanilla already has a method to do this for you:

WorldServer#spawnParticle

.

Yay, it works now! Thanks a lot!