Making a block 2 blocks tall?

[Jigokusaru]

1. Can I make 2 block high models?
2. if so, do I need a special object in the BlockX.java?
3. can I use a advanced json file to do so as well?

[Nomnomab]

Trying to accomplish the same thing with a model two blocks wide and two blocks tall. Currently using 4 split model pieces and then using BlockStates to change the piece out. Still trying to work it out though haha

[Draco18s]

53 minutes ago, Jigokusaru said:

1. Can I make 2 block high models?

No. You must use two blocks.

Edited June 10, 2017 by Draco18s

[Nomnomab]

Just now, Draco18s said:

No.

Would my way be fine?

[Draco18s]

5 minutes ago, Nomnomab said:

Would my way be fine?

I edited my post in quick order. Yes, your way is fine.

[Nomnomab]

1 minute ago, Draco18s said:

I edited my post in quick order. Yes, your way is fine.

Quick question then, do TileEntities support loading of BlockStates to a Block it is housed in? Trying to make this as painless as possible to load up states over 16.

 

1 hour ago, Jigokusaru said:

1. Can I make 2 block high models?
2. if so, do I need a special object in the BlockX.java?
3. can I use a advanced json file to do so as well?

I can share what I've done once I make sure it doesn't blow up in my face anymore  
 

[Draco18s]

3 minutes ago, Nomnomab said:

Quick question then, do TileEntities support loading of BlockStates to a Block it is housed in? Trying to make this as painless as possible to load up states over 16.

Block#getActualState()

[Nomnomab]

Just now, Draco18s said:

Block#getActualState()

Tried that, although only tried to use data from the TileEntity to set the state there. Should I use placement instead in the "group" of multiblocks? Like parent is x,y,z and child is using that parent's position to determine the state? What would you recommend

[Jigokusaru]

Could I use the door.java to maybe make the block I need? and slightly recreate the file and bend it to my needs?

[Nomnomab]

7 minutes ago, Jigokusaru said:

Could I use the door.java to maybe make the block I need? and slightly recreate the file and bend it to my needs?

Maybe? Depends on what you are trying to do

[Jigokusaru]

I need to have a 2 block high block I can activate. that's basically it.

the top part and the bottom part need to act as 1 block.

[Nomnomab]

4 minutes ago, Jigokusaru said:

I need to have a 2 block high block I can activate. that's basically it.

the top part and the bottom part need to act as 1 block.

Ah ok, then yeah, it should be fine for you. Unless it doesn't act like a door, then you might have to do a bit of a rewrite  

[Jigokusaru]

I figured that much but using some functions and rewriting them to my needs should work

[Nomnomab]

Just now, Jigokusaru said:

I figured that much but using some functions and rewriting them to my needs should work

Haha yeah  Let us know how it turns out

[Draco18s]

1 hour ago, Nomnomab said:

Tried that, although only tried to use data from the TileEntity to set the state there.

Were you syncing the data to the client?

1 hour ago, Nomnomab said:

Should I use placement instead in the "group" of multiblocks? Like parent is x,y,z and child is using that parent's position to determine the state? What would you recommend

I do that for one of my structures. A 3x3 millstone.

[Nomnomab]

Just now, Draco18s said:

1 hour ago, Nomnomab said:

Tried that, although only tried to use data from the TileEntity to set the state there.

Were you syncing the data to the client?

Yep, just could never find the right way to set the state to the Block. Since I kept getting NullPointers for the block state. 

1 minute ago, Draco18s said:

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Should I use placement instead in the "group" of multiblocks? Like parent is x,y,z and child is using that parent's position to determine the state? What would you recommend

I do that for one of my structures. A 3x3 millstone.

Ah sweet, currently making the base classes for this so that I can do it as large as I need  Hopefully it doesn't explode too much  

[Draco18s]

2 hours ago, Nomnomab said:

Yep, just could never find the right way to set the state to the Block. Since I kept getting NullPointers for the block state. 

No, you're not.

That line you have does like 14 things and one of them is throwing null (and it is almost certainly not the getBlockState() part). You need to either:

a) break it up onto multiple lines to figure out which piece is null

b) use your god damn debugger to do the same thing

Edited June 10, 2017 by Draco18s