Item Model Rendering Question

[MitchB]

I have a custom model that I'm using for an item. It doesn't seem to load properly in game, even though it looks perfectly fine in the model creator. The issue is that I have a solid, coloured shape inside a semi transparent cube - the semi transparent bit works just fine, but the coloured shape doesn't render. 

 

Do I need to be rendering this in a special way? I've tried moving the textures from two files into one etc, but still no success. 

 

Has anyone managed to do this before? If so, how? Thanks in advance. 

[Leomelonseeds]

A json file will do that for you. Simply look at the beacon.json, if you are rendering a cube. If its more complicated then post your code.

[Draco18s]

The beacon is a block and blocks have Special Rules for rendering. I'm not sure you can render the same thing with a regular item, as Transparency is Complicated.

[Choonster]

  On 3/2/2017 at 1:14 AM, Draco18s said:

The beacon is a block and blocks have Special Rules for rendering. I'm not sure you can render the same thing with a regular item, as Transparency is Complicated.

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ItemBlocks are rendered in exactly the same way as any other Item (except if they use a TESR, which the beacon item doesn't). The beacon block and item themselves use regular JSON models, the TESR is only used to render the beam.

 

I added a regular Item that uses the beacon model here and it renders just like the vanilla beacon (as you can see in the screenshot below).

 

@MitchB Post your model and a screenshot demonstrating how it's not working.

 

 

[Draco18s]

  On 3/2/2017 at 1:51 AM, Choonster said:

ItemBlocks are rendered in exactly the same way as any other Item (except if they use a TESR, which the beacon item doesn't). The beacon block and item themselves use regular JSON models, the TESR is only used to render the beam.

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I was referring to the bit about Blocks having rendering modes: CUTOUT, TRANSPARENT, etc.

But if you're right about that not affecting items, then my bad.

[MitchB]

@Choonster Model JSON (Long): http://pastebin.com/42Uunai5 // When rendered: http://prntscr.com/ef7cg1

 

There should be a coloured sphere within that transparent sphere. It's simply not rendering. As I said, it renders in the model creator (Using Cubik)

[MitchB]

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[Choonster]

  On 3/2/2017 at 6:06 PM, MitchB said:

@Choonster Model JSON (Long): http://pastebin.com/42Uunai5 // When rendered: http://prntscr.com/ef7cg1

 

There should be a coloured sphere within that transparent sphere. It's simply not rendering. As I said, it renders in the model creator (Using Cubik)

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I'm not too sure why that's not working, sorry. It could be something to do with your textures, since I downloaded the model and switched the textures to vanilla ones and the inner sphere was rendered.

 

The screenshot below uses minecraft:blocks/glass as the charm texture and minecraft:blocks/itemframe_background as the element texture.