[1.8.9] Item metadata

[Spyeedy]

Okay, so i've created my own Item with 4 metadata value. The problem is that I want each of my metadata items to have a different name instead of having one uniformed name. As you can see in the image below, I used one localization and all the metadata's names have the same name.

 

ItemMetadata class:

 

 

public class MetaRing extends Item
{
public MetaRing()
{
	this.setHasSubtypes(true);
	this.setUnlocalizedName("meta_ring");
	this.setRegistryName("meta_ring");
	this.setHasSubtypes(true);
	this.setCreativeTab(Main.tabBrothers);
}

@Override
public void getSubItems(Item itemIn, CreativeTabs tab, List<ItemStack> subItems)
{
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 0));
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 1));
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 2));
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 3));
}
}

 

 

 

RegisterItems class:

 

 

public class RegisterItems
{
public static Item meta_ring;

public static void main()
{
	init();
	register();
}

private static void init()
{
	meta_ring = new MetaRing();
}

private static void register()
{
	GameRegistry.registerItem(meta_ring, meta_ring.getRegistryName());
}

public static void registerRenders()
{
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 0, "white_meta_ring");
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 1, "red_meta_ring");
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 2, "blue_meta_ring");
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 3, "green_meta_ring");
}
}

 

 

 

Registered RegisterItems#main in my Mod class's preInit and RegisterItems#registerRenders in my ClientProxy's preInit.

[Spyeedy]

You need to override

getUnlocalizedName(ItemStack)

in your

Item

class and return whatever unlocalized name you want based on the metadata.

 

Hm, can I use the if statements and check if the ItemDamage is equals to a specific value, then return the String of the name?

[Spyeedy]

Thanks diesieben07! It worked! 

[jeffryfisher]

Or you could pull a string from an array of strings using meta as the index.

[Mattizin]

Or you could pull a string from an array of strings using meta as the index.

 

Would this really be better, just because the code is a bit shorter? I mean you store the Strings in the Array the whole time with that solution

[jeffryfisher]

You'd be stunned by how much data is stored by Minecraft in order to avoid calculating it every time it is needed. Just think of the model bakery...

 

A switch statement would compile into a jump table much like the array I suggested. The only difference might be where the strings are stored (or maybe only where the pointers to the strings are stored).

 

For a compact data set with known contiguous index, a static array should fit perfectly.