[1.8.9] Items'n'Blocks - How to use the messed up api?

[TheA13X 0]

Hi again.

Does anyone know how exactly the Block/item registering in 1.8.9 works?

The Problem I have with this, is that addVariantName is depreceated (doesn't work anymore) and replaced by registerItemVariants, like in 1.9. But most of 1.9's API like manual Registration (setRegistryName etc.) isn't implemented yet.

 

At the moment I have:

the actual block registration on server and client side in the pre-init phase:

GameRegistry.registerBlock(block, ModWoodItem.class, name, block, subblockNames.toArray(new String[subblockNames.size()]));
//name = Blockstatename

 

...the Item Variant Model Registration on the client side in the pre-init phase:

ModelBakery.registerItemVariants(Item.getItemFromBlock(block), new ResourceLocation(iconName));
//iconName = modid:unwrappedandunlocalizedname_variant

 

and the "Block-To-Model" Registration on the Client side in the pre-init phase:

for (DefinesWood type:subBlocks())
        {
            final String subName = type.speciesName();
            final int dMD=((ModWoodBlock.EnumType)type.woodSubBlockVariant()).getId();
            final String iconName = getUnlocalizedName().substring(getUnlocalizedName().indexOf('.')+1)+"_"+subName;
            // iconName = modid:unwrappedandunlocalizedname_variant
            ModelLoader.setCustomModelResourceLocation(Item.getItemFromBlock(this),dMD,new ModelResourceLocation(iconName,"inventory"));
        }

 

The Blocks are registered, but the Models are not and forge says

Model definition for location dendrology:planks0#variant=acemus not found
...
Model definition for location dendrology:planks_acemus#inventory not found
...

I know it must be something simple I overlooked (like the last time), but I just don't get it 

 

So I post it here.

"Driven by hope that there is hope again" - random guy in an RPG Maker Trashgame

 

The fact that there isn't ANYTHING about 1.8.8 and 1.8.9 on the web except finished mods bothers me for some reason...

[diesieben07 7781]

Why are you using 1.8.9? You should be using 1.11.2.

[TheA13X 0]

I'm updating an old Mod and I would like to update it to EVERY version.

Already finished with 1.8. So 1.8.8 or 1.8.9 are next.

[diesieben07 7781]

That is most likely not worth it.

[TheA13X 0]

Sorry. You know how we germans are 

But seriously. I just want to know. Every knowledge can be useful, even how to mod outdated MC versions

[shadowfacts 100]

Every knowledge can be useful, even how to mod outdated MC versions

 

Uh, no. The stuff that hasn't changed may be useful, but you can learn it just as well on a newer version. The stuff that has changed is useless to learn precisely because it has changed.

[TheA13X 0]

Yes it does. I'm talking about research, man. If I selled the mod, I would just need to know how to work with the newest version, since there are more people using it, but as a gamedev I want to learn how the different versions of forge/minecraft work. Not by looking at the deobfuscated code, the practical way.

 

Alright, since this version is not supported anymore, I will ask the question in an unofficial forum, no problem.

Thank you nevertheless.

[Kokkie 55]

We never said that version isn't supported anymore

[TheA13X 0]

No. As far as I know 1.8 is still supported. It's just that moderators normally don't try to persuade you to use newer versions, if the one you are working for is still supported.

 

 

[Kokkie 55]

They're telling you, that if you want to learn how it works it's just better to learn it for the newest version, so you don't have to throw (almost) everything you know away everytime you get a step closer to the newest version...

[TheA13X 0]

You are right.

I'd still rather make a mod for every MC release having a stable Forge version.

Since I plan to "resurrect" more mods and there are people, who can't or don't want to play the newer versions (e.g. because of modpack compatibility), I need to know how mod in 1.8 as well

 

[TheA13X 0]

All right. Found a solution.

Learning by example is more interesting, than pure theory after all.

Edited February 2, 2017 by TheA13X