[SOLVED] Strange Forge Error

[DragonFerocity]

EDIT: Turns out that the problem originated with how Visual Studio formats JSON code.

 

Hey guys,

 

I'm very new to using Forge and java, but I'm picking up Java very easily since I have worked with so many other languages in the past. Anyway. I'm following a nice tutorial for beginners (Tutorial), and I'm on the fourth one on that page. I'm getting the error: 

 

[Client thread/ERROR] [FML]: Exception loading model for variant ea:tut_block#normal for blockstate "ea:tut_block"
...
[Client thread/ERROR] [FML]: Exception loading blockstate for the variant ea:tut_block#normal:
java.lang.Exception: Could not load model definition for variant ea:tut_block
...
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Encountered an exception when loading model definition of 'ea:tut_block' from: 'ea:blockstates/tut_block.json' in resourcepack: 'FMLFileResourcePack:Extended Aesthetics'

 

I've searched all over the place and I can't find a solution for my problem. 

I'm using Visual Studio (instead of Eclipse), and the project compiles perfectly right now. However, the tut_block that the tutorial has you make, in game it doesn't have the right texture. It shows a black/purple texture instead of the right one. 

 

Here's a picture of my folder structure: (I couldn't get the picture dialogue to actually insert a picture) Which should be correct, and all the names are correct as far as I can tell.

 

Here's the blockstates/tut_block.json file:

{
  "variants": {
    "normal": { "model": "ea:tut_block" },
    "inventory": { "model": "ea:tut_block" }
  }
}

 

models/item/tut_block.json

{
  "parent": "ea:block/tut_block"
}

models/block/tut_block.json

{
  "parent": "block/cube_all",
  "textures": {
    "all": "ea:blocks/tut_block"
  }
}

 

Here's the complete error log:

Spoiler

[00:38:44] [Client thread/ERROR] [FML]: Exception loading model for variant ea:tut_block#normal for blockstate "ea:tut_block"
net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoaderRegistry$LoaderException: Exception loading model ea:tut_block#normal with loader VariantLoader.INSTANCE, skipping
  at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoaderRegistry.getModel(ModelLoaderRegistry.java:153) ~[ModelLoaderRegistry.class:?]
   at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.registerVariant(ModelLoader.java:260) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadBlock(ModelBakery.java:153) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
        at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.loadBlocks(ModelLoader.java:248) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
 at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.setupModelRegistry(ModelLoader.java:155) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelManager.onResourceManagerReload(ModelManager.java:28) [ModelManager.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.resources.SimpleReloadableResourceManager.registerReloadListener(SimpleReloadableResourceManager.java:122) [SimpleReloadableResourceManager.class:?]
   at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.init(Minecraft.java:541) [Minecraft.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:387) [Minecraft.class:?]
  at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Main.java:118) [Main.class:?]
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
     at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:135) [launchwrapper-1.12.jar:?]
       at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28) [launchwrapper-1.12.jar:?]
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
     at net.minecraftforge.gradle.GradleStartCommon.launch(GradleStartCommon.java:97) [start/:?]
    at GradleStart.main(GradleStart.java:26) [start/:?]
Caused by: net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBlockDefinition$MissingVariantException
  at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBlockDefinition.getVariant(ModelBlockDefinition.java:78) ~[ModelBlockDefinition.class:?]
     at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader$VariantLoader.loadModel(ModelLoader.java:1253) ~[ModelLoader$VariantLoader.class:?]
     at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoaderRegistry.getModel(ModelLoaderRegistry.java:149) ~[ModelLoaderRegistry.class:?]
   ... 21 more
[00:38:44] [Client thread/ERROR] [FML]: Exception loading blockstate for the variant ea:tut_block#normal:
java.lang.Exception: Could not load model definition for variant ea:tut_block
  at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.getModelBlockDefinition(ModelLoader.java:293) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadBlock(ModelBakery.java:121) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
        at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.loadBlocks(ModelLoader.java:248) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
 at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.setupModelRegistry(ModelLoader.java:155) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelManager.onResourceManagerReload(ModelManager.java:28) [ModelManager.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.resources.SimpleReloadableResourceManager.registerReloadListener(SimpleReloadableResourceManager.java:122) [SimpleReloadableResourceManager.class:?]
   at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.init(Minecraft.java:541) [Minecraft.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:387) [Minecraft.class:?]
  at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Main.java:118) [Main.class:?]
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
     at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:135) [launchwrapper-1.12.jar:?]
       at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28) [launchwrapper-1.12.jar:?]
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
     at net.minecraftforge.gradle.GradleStartCommon.launch(GradleStartCommon.java:97) [start/:?]
    at GradleStart.main(GradleStart.java:26) [start/:?]
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Encountered an exception when loading model definition of 'ea:tut_block' from: 'ea:blockstates/tut_block.json' in resourcepack: 'FMLFileResourcePack:Extended Aesthetics'
   at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadModelBlockDefinition(ModelBakery.java:246) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadMultipartMBD(ModelBakery.java:223) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.getModelBlockDefinition(ModelBakery.java:208) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
  at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.getModelBlockDefinition(ModelLoader.java:289) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
    ... 20 more
Caused by: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 1
   at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:176) ~[ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.class:?]
      at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:803) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:768) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:717) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:689) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at net.minecraftforge.client.model.BlockStateLoader.load(BlockStateLoader.java:76) ~[BlockStateLoader.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBlockDefinition.parseFromReader(ModelBlockDefinition.java:37) ~[ModelBlockDefinition.class:?]
        at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadModelBlockDefinition(ModelBakery.java:242) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadMultipartMBD(ModelBakery.java:223) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.getModelBlockDefinition(ModelBakery.java:208) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
  at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.getModelBlockDefinition(ModelLoader.java:289) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
    ... 20 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 1
        at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.beginObject(JsonReader.java:374) ~[JsonReader.class:?]
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:165) ~[ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.class:?]
      at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:803) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:768) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:717) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:689) ~[Gson.class:?]
        at net.minecraftforge.client.model.BlockStateLoader.load(BlockStateLoader.java:76) ~[BlockStateLoader.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBlockDefinition.parseFromReader(ModelBlockDefinition.java:37) ~[ModelBlockDefinition.class:?]
        at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadModelBlockDefinition(ModelBakery.java:242) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadMultipartMBD(ModelBakery.java:223) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
 at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.getModelBlockDefinition(ModelBakery.java:208) ~[ModelBakery.class:?]
  at net.minecraftforge.client.model.ModelLoader.getModelBlockDefinition(ModelLoader.java:289) ~[ModelLoader.class:?]
    ... 20 more
                                                                                                                                                             [00:38:44] [Client thread/INFO] [FML]: Injecting itemstacks
[00:38:44] [Client thread/INFO] [FML]: Itemstack injection complete
[00:38:44] [Client thread/INFO] [FML]: Forge Mod Loader has successfully loaded 5 mods
[00:38:44] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default, FMLFileResourcePack:Forge Mod Loader, FMLFileResourcePack:Minecraft Forge, FMLFileResourcePack:Extended Aesthetics
[00:38:48] [Client thread/INFO]: SoundSystem shutting down...
[00:38:48] [Client thread/WARN]: Author: Paul Lamb, www.paulscode.com
[00:38:48] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Starting up SoundSystem...
[00:38:48] [Thread-10/INFO]: Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
[00:38:48] [Thread-10/INFO]: (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL.  For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
[00:38:48] [Thread-10/INFO]: OpenAL initialized.
[00:38:48] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[00:38:51] [Client thread/INFO] [FML]: Max texture size: 16384
[00:38:52] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 512x512 textures-atlas
[00:38:53] [Client thread/WARN]: Skipping bad option: lastServer:
[00:38:54] [Realms Notification Availability checker #1/INFO]: Could not authorize you against Realms server: Invalid session id
[00:39:07] [Client thread/INFO]: Stopping!
[00:39:07] [Client thread/INFO]: SoundSystem shutting down...
[00:39:07] [Client thread/WARN]: Author: Paul Lamb, www.paulscode.com

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 50.804 secs

 

 

Thanks for any help. If you need more files I can post those too. Again I haven't been able to find anything anywhere. Other people have malformed JSON; I don't. Other people have the wrong folder structure; I don't as far as I can tell.

 

EDIT: Should probably mention, I'm modding for MC1.11.2, and using Forge 13.20.0.2260

 

EDIT: GitHub link!

Edited March 30, 2017 by DragonFerocity
Added solution to top of post

[Jay Avery]

[deleted because I can't read properly *sigh*]

Edited March 29, 2017 by Jay Avery

[MCenderdragon]

what is your registration code for the block, and render registration for block and item ?

[Draco18s]

Try this format instead:

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/resources/assets/harderfarming/blockstates/saltore.json

You may also want to make your ModID longer.  Two letters really isn't that good, you've got like 30 to work with, there's no reason to abbreviate.

Edited March 29, 2017 by Draco18s

[DragonFerocity]

37 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

Try this format instead:

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/resources/assets/harderfarming/blockstates/saltore.json

You may also want to make your ModID longer.  Two letters really isn't that good, you've got like 30 to work with, there's no reason to abbreviate.

I tried that format. Same issue, same error. I also changed my ModID to expanded rather than ea, same issue.

 

41 minutes ago, MCenderdragon said:

what is your registration code for the block, and render registration for block and item ?

The tutorial I'm following has you create a BlockHandler class:

public class BlockHandler {

  public static Block tutBlock;
  public static ItemBlock ibTutBlock;

  public static void init() {
    tutBlock = new BlockTutBlock(Material.ROCK, "tut_block", CreativeTabs.BUILDING_BLOCKS, 5F, 15F, 3, "pickaxe");
    ibTutBlock = (ItemBlock)new ItemBlock(tutBlock);
  }

  public static void register() {
    GameRegistry.register(tutBlock);
    GameRegistry.register(ibTutBlock, tutBlock.getRegistryName());
  }

  public static void registerRenders() {
    registerRender(tutBlock);
  }

  public static void registerRender(Block block) {
    Item item = Item.getItemFromBlock(block);
    Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderItem().getItemModelMesher().register(item, 0, new ModelResourceLocation(item.getRegistryName(), "inventory"));
  }
}

And ItemHandler:

public class ItemHandler {

  public static Item tutItem;

  public static void init() {
    tutItem = new ItemTutItem("tut_item", CreativeTabs.MATERIALS);
  }

  public static void register() {
    GameRegistry.register(tutItem);
  }

  public static void registerRenders() {
    registerRender(tutItem);
  }

  public static void registerRender(Item item) {
    Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderItem().getItemModelMesher().register(item, 0, new ModelResourceLocation(item.getRegistryName(), "inventory"));
  }
}

 

ClientProxy:

public class ClientProxy extends CommonProxy {

  public void init() {
    ItemHandler.registerRenders();
    BlockHandler.registerRenders();
  }
}

CommonProxy:

public class CommonProxy implements IProxy {

  public void preInit() {
    ItemHandler.init();
    ItemHandler.register();

    BlockHandler.init();
    BlockHandler.register();
  }

  public void init() {
  
  }

  public void postInit() {
  
  }
}

 

Thanks for the help

[Draco18s]

Ok, so the problem is caused by this (your original json files):

(Just because you get "Exception loading model" or "Exception loading blockstate" does not mean that that is the only error.  It's a wrapper error around another error farther down)

1 hour ago, DragonFerocity said:

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Encountered an exception when loading model definition of 'ea:tut_block' from: 'ea:blockstates/tut_block.json' in resourcepack: 'FMLFileResourcePack:Extended Aesthetics' at net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelBakery.loadModelBlockDefinition(ModelBakery.java:246)

 

Caused by: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 1

Something is seriously wrong with your json.  Have you tried running them through http://jsonlint.com/?

[DragonFerocity]

4 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

Ok, so the problem is caused by this (your original json files):

(Just because you get "Exception loading model" or "Exception loading blockstate" does not mean that that is the only error.  It's a wrapper error around another error farther down)

Something is seriously wrong with your json.  Have you tried running them through http://jsonlint.com/?

jsonlint says they all are correctly formed JSON. (Visual studio would tell me if there were any errors regardless.)

[Draco18s]

I don't know then. Because they look fine to me and I've never had that particular error crop up when there wasn't something obviously wrong.

[DragonFerocity]

Just now, Draco18s said:

I don't know then. Because they look fine to me and I've never had that particular error crop up when there wasn't something obviously wrong.

Yeah, that's why I'm so confused. I'm beginning to wonder if there's an issue with Forge. I may try re-installing that to see if that changes anything.

[Draco18s]

It's not a Forge issue.

But yeah, try starting over from scratch and use the Forge blockstate format. It's a lot nicer.

Edited March 29, 2017 by Draco18s

[DragonFerocity]

So, I started over from scratch, and same issue persists.

[TheMasterGabriel]

Can you run Minecraft normally? I ask because it looks like it's an unresolved MC problem as well (MC-75309).

[DragonFerocity]

I can run Minecraft without forge, if that's what you're asking. I haven't tried running it with forge except through the command line.

[TheMasterGabriel]

I've never seen that problem before. It might be worth cleaning the cache via 'gradlew clean', and then re-running 'gradlew setupDecompWorkspace' to see if that fixes the problem.

[DragonFerocity]

Do you think re-installing MC or Forge would help?

[TheMasterGabriel]

If cleaning the cache didn't do anything, there is no harm in trying I guess.

[DragonFerocity]

If you'd like, I can upload all of my files online for you to look at.

[TheMasterGabriel]

A Git repo would be useful. What text editor are you using? However unlikely, I've had problems with certain editors leaving weird artifacts that it doesn't see but other programs might. (Although JSLint should have spotted them)

Edited March 30, 2017 by TheMasterGabriel

[DragonFerocity]

I'm using Visual Studio. Here's a github link

[DragonFerocity]

I don't know what the bump specifics are for this forum, so bump.

[TheMasterGabriel]

So I tried it on my computer and I got the same error. If I recall from some VS experience, I'm pretty sure it asks you to normalize line endings at some point? So back to my original hypothesis, there are text artifacts that the MC JSON reader doesn't like. I minified (http://www.cleancss.com/json-minify/) your block state file and that seemed to work, so try that. I also suggest using some other text editor to see if that makes a difference.

Edited March 30, 2017 by TheMasterGabriel

[DragonFerocity]

You are quite right. I may just start using a different text editor for the JSON files.

 

Thanks,

[TheMasterGabriel]

So it was VS? Yea, that's weird. I would consider that a bug, but can probably be fixed via runtime minification or some other cleverer method.

[DragonFerocity]

Yeah. There's probably a way to force VS to use different line endings, or to force it to use minified JSON. When I used the online minifier, and posted it into VS, it auto formatted it adding line-breaks in certain places, so I test and same error. Then I opened the file in Atom, and put the minified JSON, and it worked just fine.

 

Thanks for looking into this. I probably wouldn't have found that it was a problem because of VS.

[Draco18s]

And now I'm reminded of a time when I poked around with a Microsoft HTML tool that was so buggy I had website images displaying inside the program's UI (completely breaking it).