Hi,

 

I want to make a custom rendered block, where you can put some sorts of cheeses on it to let it ripe.

Now I want to make it visible from the outside (not only in GUI), how much cheeses that are stored inside the block.

There are 8 slots for cheeses inside the ripening rack, and there are currently 3 types of cheese.

If I want to do it with the JSON method, the possible combinations would be 3^8 or 6561 JSON files.

I don't think I'm going to make 6561 JSON files for just one block, so is there another way for rendering a block?

Like before the update 1.8 or so?

 

Thanks!

That is not how it works, you need a TESR

Why isn't it accurate?

Why isn't it accurate?

 

Because:

The Forge Blockstate format should allow you to do this using sub models.

Thanks.

Another way of doing it, is Building your Model as an .obj, loading it via the OBJLoader, and since i suspect you have a TileEntity as you want to store items inside a Block, you can then dynamicly show the Cheeses as Parts of the Model using the ExtendedBlockState and IModelState. Its a rather Simple way of getting high quality dynamic state Models working, I use it e.g. for my Item Pipes.

 

If you need help ill happily provide an example