All of the tutorials and such I've been finding on the internet seem to be from 1.8 before there were forge blockstate files (oh the dark days) so I can't seem to figure out the format for using a PropertyEnum in the variants section of the file. The forge docs show using an integer and a boolean, but not propertyenum, so I was thinking posting here would help me figure out how to do this as well as maybe whoever maintains the forge docs might see it and add that in there to make life just a little bit easier on people in the future. Also if not this gives people something to reference if they have the same question as me. So I'm not sure if I've actually clearly stated my question or I've just been rambling on this whole time. Thus, I'll put it here again.

 

I have a block that uses a custom PropertyEnum (it's for colors, but I prefer to use a different color scheme from the 16 vanilla options, so I made my own) and I want to make variants to change the texture based on that enum. How do I format it in the variants section of the blockstate file?

You need an example of the json?

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/resources/assets/harderores/blockstates/axel.json

You use a

PropertyEnum

just like you would any other

IProperty

. The string returned by

IStringSerializable#getName

is used as the value in the blockstates file (whichever format you're using).

 

I have a block with two enum properties (for the colour and facing) here: code, blockstates file.

 

I have a block with a single custom enum property here: code, blockstates file.

Wow I should have just tried that

 

Thanks for the help though. Much appreciated!