[1.7.10]Block Rotation on placement

[Cyan_]

I know that similar things have been posted in the past, here, but they were all about tile entities. My block is just a normal block, based similarly to how the Terracotta blocks are in 1.12 snapshots.

 

Basically, I want it so when the block is placed, depending on the player's direction when placing the block, the block is rotated a certain way. I'm not sure how to go about doing that.

 

Like the Terracotta blocks, my blocks have different meta values depending on the color of the block, if that makes a difference...

 

Thanks in advance,

Cyan_

[Raverow]

Don't you need json files for this? Why not edit the method onBlockPlaced to do this. Or check the BlockLog class if it existed.

[Cyan_]

I don't think that 1.7.10 uses .json for block rotation. I thought that was a 1.8 and later thing.

 

BlockLog doesn't rotate based on player placement, does it? I thought it was based on how it's placed next to a block....

 

Edit: I'm copying code from BlockPumpkin, which assigns meta values to my blocks, but I think it's messing with the meta values I've assigned to my blocks i.e. placing East or North will not rotate my block or do anything special, but placing West created my Brown block, no rotation, and placing South created my Blue block, no rotation.

 

 

Edited April 26, 2017 by Cyan_