How to create a forge .json file for meta items

[winnetrie]

I know how to make a forge style.json file for creating metablocks, but how i do it for items?

As far as i know items do not have blockstates.

Or isn't it possble to make it in 1 file for items?

[Draco18s]

Basically like this:

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/java/com/draco18s/hardlib/client/ClientEasyRegistry.java#L79-L88

IMetaLookup is just a helper interface on an the enum used to supply the variant items (also blocks) to make it easier to determine things about the variants.

[winnetrie]

I mean how would that .json file look like. I can make 16 different models for the items (16 .json files)

I know how to do that. I was wondering if i could also do it all in 1 file, just like the blocks.

 

I experimented with some stuff.

I have 16 different clayballs (items). i made a .json file in the blockstate folder for those items, just like i did for blocks. This works, but it makes cuboids of it, while i want it flat ofc.

 

It looks like this:

 

{
    "forge_marker": 1,
    "defaults": {
        "model": "minecraft:cube_all"
    },
    "variants": {
        "type": {
            "white": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/white_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "orange": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/orange_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "magenta": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/magenta_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "light_blue": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/light_blue_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "yellow": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/yellow_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "lime": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/lime_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "pink": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/pink_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "gray": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/gray_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "silver": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/silver_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "cyan": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/cyan_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "purple": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/purple_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "blue": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/blue_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "brown": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/brown_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "green": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/green_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "red": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/red_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "black": {
                "textures": {
                    "all": "tem:items/black_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

 

 

Ofc i know it will be a cuboid, because of this line:

"model": "minecraft:cube_all"

 

How do i get a flat item?

 

[Draco18s]

I mean how would that .json file look like. I can make 16 different models for the items

 

{
    "forge_marker": 1,
    "defaults": {
        "model": "harderores:item/generated"
    },
    "variants": {
        "ore_type": {
            "iron":     {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/irondust_sm"} },
            "gold":     {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/golddust_sm"} },
            "flour":    {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/flourdust_sm"} },
            "sugar":    {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/sugardust_sm"} },
            "tin":      {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/tindust_sm"} },
            "copper":   {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/copperdust_sm"} },
            "lead":     {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/leaddust_sm"} },
            "silver":   {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/silverdust_sm"} },
            "nickel":   {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/nickeldust_sm"} },
            "aluminum": {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/aluminumdust_sm"} },
            "osmium":   {"textures": {"layer0": "harderores:items/osmiumdust_sm"} }
        }
    }
}

 

And you're not limited to 16, either.  "Osmium" there is meta-data value 24.

[winnetrie]

Is this an item model file for the model folder or do i have to put this in the blockstate folder?

cuz my items are now invisible

[Draco18s]

Blockstate folder

Take a look through my git repo

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism

 

Might want to go back to the Jul 28, 2016 commit, there's less stuff in there at that point.

[winnetrie]

Alright it works now

 

It looks like this now:

 

{
    "forge_marker": 1,
    "defaults": {
        "model": "tem:generated"
    },
    "variants": {
        "type": {
            "white": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/white_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "orange": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/orange_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "magenta": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/magenta_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "light_blue": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/light_blue_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "yellow": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/yellow_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "lime": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/lime_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "pink": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/pink_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "gray": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/gray_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "silver": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/silver_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "cyan": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/cyan_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "purple": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/purple_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "blue": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/blue_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "brown": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/brown_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "green": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/green_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "red": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/red_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            },
            "black": {
                "textures": {
                    "layer0": "tem:items/black_stained_clay_ball"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

 

 

I also copied the generated.json file from minecraft over to my block model folder.

That way i can reference to it. If i put it in my item model folder he still keeps looking for it in the block model folder even when i do this:

"model": "tem:item/generated"

The game is then searching for tem:block/item/generated.json

To fix this i dragged the file to the block folder.

At least i think it's ok like this. If not plz tell me. For now it is all working for me.

[larsgerrits]

You can reference a vanilla model like any other model, but with either

minecraft

as the modid or leaving the modid empty (

"item/generated"

alone).

[Draco18s]

That way i can reference to it. If i put it in my item model folder he still keeps looking for it in the block model folder even when i do this:

"model": "tem:item/generated"

The game is then searching for tem:block/item/generated.json

To fix this i dragged the file to the block folder.

At least i think it's ok like this. If not plz tell me. For now it is all working for me.

 

Yes, I have one there, it works fine.

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/tree/master/src/main/resources/assets/harderores/models/block/item

 

{
    "__comment": "Allows blockstates files to use basic item models",
    "parent": "minecraft:item/generated"
}