[Solved] Water plant

[MFMods]

i'm making a few water plants.

 

checklist (for others that want to do the same):

* material set to water

* add LEVEL property (mandatory), you can just ignore it (i have variants too, that one gets saved)

* in client proxy, call ModelLoader.setCustomStateMapper to ignore the level property (one line there makes you not worry about level in the blockstate file; solution by choonster)

problem: plants look fine when deeper underwater (when there is at least one water source block above it).

but when the plant is right below surface, i don't have the surface part (see image).

 

for the model i used the "cross" model.

 

does anyone know what to do?

some other modders solved worked around the issue by insisting on one or more water blocks above and breaking the plant if water is for example picked up by a bucket.

i would prefer to allow plants to grow right below surface if possible.

Edited March 20, 2017 by MFMods
adding solved tag to title

[Jay Avery]

1 hour ago, MFMods said:

for the model i used the "cross" model.

Well, the 'cross' model doesn't contain a water surface element, so of course it won't be there. You'll need to create a custom model for your plants to give the appearance of the water surface above the plant part. I have a similar water plant which I render using a multi-layer model, if you want to see how I do it: block class, blockstates, cutout model part, translucent model part.

 

[MFMods]

hmm, that would solve my problem; more than one actually.

though i might have to bother with states regarding block above. oh well...

 

it's not a perfect solution - you should have used "minecraft:blocks/water_still" instead of your own png because of resource packs. also, i'm concerned as to how it would look in a biome with tinted water (we'll know tomorrow).

 

thanks a lot, friend!  you most likely lost many hours on that block.

 

btw, a rice plant that looks like actual rice? i salute thee. (i know, it sounds obvious that it should look like rice, but these days, rice blocks that i find in mods look like peas or kale).

[MFMods]

to conclude the thread (for those who need the same thing):

 

jay's model works (mostly) - thanks again, man.

 

as to what else needs to be done, that kinda depends on modder's plans for the plant:

* biome tinting does not work... for now, i don't care (i wasn't going to allow either worlgen or seed  planting in swamps either way), but if mystcraft gets updated to 1.10+, then i would really care. so, if anyone knows what to do, by all means, share...

* bottom ("down") part of the top surface is needed so that we can properly see through the plant upwards diagonally (add a line to the model file).

* sides (water texture) are needed if you want plants too look ok in a big glass tank. if you don't care about glass, you can just omit sides and in can-block-stay method disallow it to stay next to non-solid surface blocks (ie. anyting except water material, full cubes and farmland/paths).

[Choonster]

3 minutes ago, MFMods said:

* biome tinting does not work... for now, i don't care (i wasn't going to allow either worlgen or seed  planting in swamps either way), but if mystcraft gets updated to 1.10+, then i would really care. so, if anyone knows what to do, by all means, share...

 

Set the tint index for each model face you want to be coloured at runtime and register an IBlockColor for the Block that returns the appropriate colour for each tint index depending on the location.

 

Look at BlockColors for vanilla examples.

[MFMods]

well that was easy. thank you choonster for making an effort even though i did not.

 

[Sommanker]

Hey, I'm trying to do a similar thing in my own mod, how do I set the LEVEL property you describe in the first post?

At the moment my game crashes whenever I place the block, because it thinks its water due to the material and has nothing set for that.

 

[Kokkie]

Make your own post

[Sommanker]

48 minutes ago, Kokkie said:

Make your own post

My bad, thought this would be better.

Done.