[1.11] Other way of rendering than JSON?

[Kander16]

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!

[Kokkie]

That is not how it works, you need a TESR

[Kokkie]

Why isn't it accurate?

[Draco18s]

Why isn't it accurate?

 

Because:

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

[Kander16]

Thanks.

[Bitterholz]

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