I am going to implement an animated block in my mod and I would like to render an overlay over the block so that the pixels from the overlay are static and the animated ones show through the clear parts of the overlay.

 

What would be the best way to accomplish this.

 

 Right now I am thinking something along the lines of:

private static ResourceLocation RL = new ResourceLocation(MODID, "textures/blocks/overlay.png");

ITextureObject ito = Minecraft.getMinecraft().renderEngine.getTexture(RL);
        if(ito == null)
        {
            ito = new SimpleTexture(RL);
            Minecraft.getMinecraft().renderEngine.loadTexture(RL, ito);
        }
        GL11.glBindTexture(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D, ito.getGlTextureId());

But I'm not sure what I would have to do after this because as I recall glbindtexture won't actually display the texture.

I am interested in this too

why not have the overlay as a block model & render the animated stuff inside it with a TESR or SmartModel

You can check at magma blocks on how they are made, they are animated BTW.

Thanks that will probably be a lot easier. I'll look into it.

Did you ever solve this?