[Solved] Screen blacking when rendering transparent entity as overlay

[GiantNuker]

A mod I am working on tries to display mobs that are sneaking up behind you, by showing little versions on the sides of your screen. Here is how it's supposed to work:

The display code shown was copied from ToroCraft's ToroHealth (Source On GitHub) ToroHealth seems to have no problem with this, but whenever the display shows a slime(Or any other partially transparent entity i'm guessing) this happens:

Any idea why or how to fix it? Thanks.

Render Code:

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@SubscribeEvent
	public void renderEntityWarnings(RenderGameOverlayEvent.Pre event) {
		EntityPlayer player = Minecraft.getMinecraft().player;
		if (event.getType() == ElementType.CHAT || player == null || player.world == null) return;
		List<Entity> ewl = player.world.getEntitiesWithinAABBExcludingEntity(player, player.getEntityBoundingBox().grow(Config.Warnings.range, 5, Config.Warnings.range));
		for (Entity e : ewl) {
			if (e instanceof EntityLivingBase) {
				EntityLivingBase entity = (EntityLivingBase) e;
				Frustum fr = new Frustum();
				fr.setPosition(player.posX, player.posY, player.posZ);
				if (!fr.isBoundingBoxInFrustum(e.getEntityBoundingBox())) {
					EntityDisplay ed = new EntityDisplay(Minecraft.getMinecraft());
					ed.setEntity(entity);
					ed.setPosition(0, 50);
					ed.draw();
				}
			} else {
				// do dis
			}
		}
	}
	
	public static class EntityDisplay {
		private static final int RENDER_HEIGHT = 30;
		private static final int RENDER_WIDTH = 18;
		private static final int PADDING = 2;
		private static final int WIDTH = 40;
		private static final int HEIGHT = WIDTH;

		private int y;

		private float glX;
		private float glY;

		private EntityLivingBase entity;
		private Entity leashedToEntity;
		private float prevYawOffset;
		private float prevYaw;
		private float prevPitch;
		private float prevYawHead;
		private float prevPrevYahHead;
		private int scale = 1;

		public EntityDisplay(Minecraft mc) {
		}

		public void setPosition(int x, int y) {
			this.y = y;
			glX = (float) x + WIDTH / 2;
			updateScale();
		}

		public void setEntity(EntityLivingBase entity) {
			this.entity = entity;
			updateScale();
		}

		public void draw() {
			try {
				pushEntityLeasedTo();
				pushEntityRotations();
				glDraw();
				popEntityRotations();
				popEntityLeasedTo();
			} catch (Throwable ignore) {
			}
		}

		private void updateScale() {
			if (entity == null) {
				glY = (float) y + HEIGHT - PADDING;
				return;
			}
			int scaleY = MathHelper.ceil(RENDER_HEIGHT / entity.height);
			int scaleX = MathHelper.ceil(RENDER_WIDTH / entity.width);
			scale = Math.min(scaleX, scaleY);
			glY = (float) y + (HEIGHT / 2 + RENDER_HEIGHT / 2);
			//if (entity instanceof EntityGhast) {
			//	glY -= 10;
			//}
		}

		private void glDraw() {
			GlStateManager.enableColorMaterial();
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();

			GlStateManager.translate(glX, glY, 50.0F);
			GlStateManager.scale((float) (-scale), (float) scale, (float) scale);
			GlStateManager.rotate(180.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(135.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(-100.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(0.0f, 1.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);

			RenderHelper.enableStandardItemLighting();

			GlStateManager.translate(0.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
			RenderManager rendermanager = Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderManager();
			rendermanager.setPlayerViewY(180.0F);
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(false);
			rendermanager.renderEntity(entity, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0F, 1.0F, false);
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(true);

			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			RenderHelper.disableStandardItemLighting();
			GlStateManager.disableRescaleNormal();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit);
			GlStateManager.disableTexture2D();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.defaultTexUnit);
		}

		private void popEntityLeasedTo() {
			if (entity instanceof EntityLiving && leashedToEntity != null) {
				((EntityLiving) entity).setLeashHolder(leashedToEntity, false);
				leashedToEntity = null;
			}
		}

		private void pushEntityLeasedTo() {
			if (entity instanceof EntityLiving) {
				if (((EntityLiving) entity).getLeashed()) {
					leashedToEntity = ((EntityLiving) entity).getLeashHolder();
					((EntityLiving) entity).setLeashHolder(null, false);
				}
			}
		}

		private void popEntityRotations() {
			entity.renderYawOffset = prevYawOffset;
			entity.rotationYaw = prevYaw;
			entity.rotationPitch = prevPitch;
			entity.rotationYawHead = prevYawHead;
			entity.prevRotationYawHead = prevPrevYahHead;
		}

		private void pushEntityRotations() {
			prevYawOffset = entity.renderYawOffset;
			prevYaw = entity.rotationYaw;
			prevPitch = entity.rotationPitch;
			prevYawHead = entity.rotationYawHead;
			prevPrevYahHead = entity.prevRotationYawHead;
			entity.renderYawOffset = 0.0f;
			entity.rotationYaw = 0.0f;
			entity.rotationPitch = 0.0f;
			entity.rotationYawHead = 0.0f;
			entity.prevRotationYawHead = 0.0f;
		}
	}

 

Edit: Happens with wither skeletons too

Edited August 27, 2018 by GiantNuker

[Draco18s]

The slime is likely changing rendering flags and your code doesn't correctly account for it. Namely, slimes are transparent.

[GiantNuker]

13 hours ago, Draco18s said:

The slime is likely changing rendering flags and your code doesn't correctly account for it. Namely, slimes are transparent.

Thank you, I will look into this.

[GiantNuker]

I checked ToroHealth and Can't seem to find anything. The mod does render a skin into the background though.

It uses:

private void drawSkin() {
		if (ConfigurationHandler.skin.equals("NONE")) {
			return;
		}
		
		if (ConfigurationHandler.skin.equals("HEAVY")) {
			mc.getTextureManager().bindTexture(SKIN_HEAVY);
		}else{
			mc.getTextureManager().bindTexture(SKIN_BASIC);
		}
		
		GlStateManager.color(1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F);
		Gui.drawModalRectWithCustomSizedTexture(screenX - 10, screenY - 10, 0.0f, 0.0f, 160, 60, 160, 60);
	}

I am not very good with OpenGL, but I don't think this has anything. The render entity code is exactly the same, I had something else, but now I'm using the same renderer to try to get rid of this.

Entity render code:

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public static class EntityDisplay {
		private static final int RENDER_HEIGHT = 30;
		private static final int RENDER_WIDTH = 18;
		private static final int PADDING = 2;
		private static final int WIDTH = 40;
		private static final int HEIGHT = WIDTH;

		private int y;

		private float glX;
		private float glY;

		private EntityLivingBase entity;
		private Entity leashedToEntity;
		private float prevYawOffset;
		private float prevYaw;
		private float prevPitch;
		private float prevYawHead;
		private float prevPrevYahHead;
		private int scale = 1;

		public EntityDisplay(Minecraft mc) {
		}

		public void setPosition(int x, int y) {
			this.y = y;
			glX = (float) x + WIDTH / 2;
			updateScale();
		}

		public void setEntity(EntityLivingBase entity) {
			this.entity = entity;
			updateScale();
		}

		public void draw() {
			try {
				pushEntityLeasedTo();
				pushEntityRotations();
				glDraw();
				popEntityRotations();
				popEntityLeasedTo();
			} catch (Throwable ignore) {
			}
		}

		private void updateScale() {
			if (entity == null) {
				glY = (float) y + HEIGHT - PADDING;
				return;
			}
			int scaleY = MathHelper.ceil(RENDER_HEIGHT / entity.height);
			int scaleX = MathHelper.ceil(RENDER_WIDTH / entity.width);
			scale = Math.min(scaleX, scaleY);
			glY = (float) y + (HEIGHT / 2 + RENDER_HEIGHT / 2);
			//if (entity instanceof EntityGhast) {
			//	glY -= 10;
			//}
		}

		private void glDraw() {
			GlStateManager.enableColorMaterial();
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();

			GlStateManager.translate(glX, glY, 50.0F);
			GlStateManager.scale((float) (-scale), (float) scale, (float) scale);
			GlStateManager.rotate(180.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(135.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(-100.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(0.0f, 1.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);

			RenderHelper.enableStandardItemLighting();

			GlStateManager.translate(0.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
			RenderManager rendermanager = Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderManager();
			rendermanager.setPlayerViewY(180.0F);
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(false);
			rendermanager.renderEntity(entity, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0F, 1.0F, false);
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(true);

			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			RenderHelper.disableStandardItemLighting();
			GlStateManager.disableRescaleNormal();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit);
			GlStateManager.disableTexture2D();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.defaultTexUnit);
		}

		private void popEntityLeasedTo() {
			if (entity instanceof EntityLiving && leashedToEntity != null) {
				((EntityLiving) entity).setLeashHolder(leashedToEntity, false);
				leashedToEntity = null;
			}
		}

		private void pushEntityLeasedTo() {
			if (entity instanceof EntityLiving) {
				if (((EntityLiving) entity).getLeashed()) {
					leashedToEntity = ((EntityLiving) entity).getLeashHolder();
					((EntityLiving) entity).setLeashHolder(null, false);
				}
			}
		}

		private void popEntityRotations() {
			entity.renderYawOffset = prevYawOffset;
			entity.rotationYaw = prevYaw;
			entity.rotationPitch = prevPitch;
			entity.rotationYawHead = prevYawHead;
			entity.prevRotationYawHead = prevPrevYahHead;
		}

		private void pushEntityRotations() {
			prevYawOffset = entity.renderYawOffset;
			prevYaw = entity.rotationYaw;
			prevPitch = entity.rotationPitch;
			prevYawHead = entity.rotationYawHead;
			prevPrevYahHead = entity.prevRotationYawHead;
			entity.renderYawOffset = 0.0f;
			entity.rotationYaw = 0.0f;
			entity.rotationPitch = 0.0f;
			entity.rotationYawHead = 0.0f;
			entity.prevRotationYawHead = 0.0f;
		}
	}

 

 

[Cadiboo]

On 8/25/2018 at 11:11 AM, Draco18s said:

The slime is likely changing rendering flags and your code doesn't correctly account for it. Namely, slimes are transparent.

 

13 hours ago, GiantNuker said:

I checked ToroHealth and Can't seem to find anything. The mod does render a skin into the background though.

Have you tried playing around and making sure transparency is off/on and texture2d is off/on? those probably aren't the rendering flags that you want, but their a good start

[GiantNuker]

11 hours ago, Cadiboo said:

 

Have you tried playing around and making sure transparency is off/on and texture2d is off/on? those probably aren't the rendering flags that you want, but their a good start

How would i turn transparency on and off?

 

Also, i think there might be a difference between whatever version had "doRenderEntity" and 1.12.2 "renderEntity" I'm retty sure ToroCraft just hasnt updated the github repositiory. That is the only difference I can see codewise so far.

[GiantNuker]

Oh no! Check this out...It happens with any entity.

[Draco18s]

That's what happens when you bind a texture and don't rebind what Minecraft was already using.

 

In this case, you bound the font texture (which the FontRenderer class does for you, automatically) during the rendering of non-font UI objects.

[GiantNuker]

52 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

That's what happens when you bind a texture and don't rebind what Minecraft was already using.

 

In this case, you bound the font texture (which the FontRenderer class does for you, automatically) during the rendering of non-font UI objects.

Thank you. How do I rebind the previous texture though?

 

Edit: this stops screen blacking, but still dosent render the transparency:

GL11.glPushAttrib(GL11.GL_ALL_ATTRIB_BITS);
rendermanager.renderEntity(entity, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0F, 1.0F, false);
GL11.glPopAttrib();

Source: http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/topic/32488-1710-rendering-semi-transparent-mobs/?do=findComment&comment=171749

Rendering issues with this method:

Spoiler

 

Issues:Transparency (See : slime, boots, text, glint)

 

Edited August 26, 2018 by GiantNuker

[Cadiboo]

6 hours ago, GiantNuker said:

Thank you. How do I rebind the previous texture though?

 

Edit: this stops screen blacking, but still dosent render the transparency:

GL11.glPushAttrib(GL11.GL_ALL_ATTRIB_BITS);
rendermanager.renderEntity(entity, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0F, 1.0F, false);
GL11.glPopAttrib();

Source: http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/topic/32488-1710-rendering-semi-transparent-mobs/?do=findComment&comment=171749

Rendering issues with this method:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Issues:Transparency (See : slime, boots, text, glint)

 

Don’t use GL directly, use GLStateManager

[GiantNuker]

14 hours ago, Cadiboo said:

Don’t use GL directly, use GLStateManager

And how would i do that in this situation?

[GiantNuker]

I am sorry, but I just found out the root cause of my problem.

I used RenderGameOverlay.Pre instead of Post.

 

With a little bit of tweaking, now it works

 

If you would like to use it:

Highlighter[1.0-1.12.2].jar - Download

Highlighter[1.0-1.12.2]-source.jar - Sources

 

Thank you @Draco18s @Cadiboo

[Cadiboo]

3 hours ago, GiantNuker said:

I am sorry, but I just found out the root cause of my problem.

I used RenderGameOverlay.Pre instead of Post.

 

With a little bit of tweaking, now it works

 

If you would like to use it:

Highlighter[1.0-1.12.2].jar - Download

Highlighter[1.0-1.12.2]-source.jar - Sources

 

Thank you @Draco18s @Cadiboo

Great! But make sure you are making GL calls to GLStateManager and not GL11.

https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/modification-development/2231761-opengl-calls-glstatemanager

[GiantNuker]

10 minutes ago, Cadiboo said:

Great! But make sure you are making GL calls to GLStateManager and not GL11.

https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/modification-development/2231761-opengl-calls-glstatemanager

GlStateManager.enableColorMaterial();
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();

			GlStateManager.translate(glX, glY, 50.0F);
			GlStateManager.scale((float) (-scale * scaleM), (float) scale * scaleM, (float) scale * scaleM);
			GlStateManager.rotate(180.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(135.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(-100.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(0.0f, 1.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);

			RenderHelper.enableStandardItemLighting();

			GlStateManager.translate(0.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
			RenderManager rendermanager = Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderManager();
			rendermanager.setPlayerViewY(180.0F);
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(false);
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();
			GlStateManager.disableLighting();
			OpenGlHelper.setLightmapTextureCoords(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit, 240f, 240f);
			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			rendermanager.renderEntity(entity, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0F, 1.0F, false);
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();
			GlStateManager.enableLighting();
			OpenGlHelper.setLightmapTextureCoords(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit, 240f, 240f);
			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(true);

			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			RenderHelper.disableStandardItemLighting();
			GlStateManager.disableRescaleNormal();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit);
			//GlStateManager.disableTexture2D();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.defaultTexUnit);

Do i still need the calls to OpenGlHelper?

[Cadiboo]

6 minutes ago, GiantNuker said:

GlStateManager.enableColorMaterial();
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();

			GlStateManager.translate(glX, glY, 50.0F);
			GlStateManager.scale((float) (-scale * scaleM), (float) scale * scaleM, (float) scale * scaleM);
			GlStateManager.rotate(180.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(135.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(-100.0F, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
			GlStateManager.rotate(0.0f, 1.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);

			RenderHelper.enableStandardItemLighting();

			GlStateManager.translate(0.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
			RenderManager rendermanager = Minecraft.getMinecraft().getRenderManager();
			rendermanager.setPlayerViewY(180.0F);
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(false);
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();
			GlStateManager.disableLighting();
			OpenGlHelper.setLightmapTextureCoords(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit, 240f, 240f);
			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			rendermanager.renderEntity(entity, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0D, 0.0F, 1.0F, false);
			GlStateManager.pushMatrix();
			GlStateManager.enableLighting();
			OpenGlHelper.setLightmapTextureCoords(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit, 240f, 240f);
			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			rendermanager.setRenderShadow(true);

			GlStateManager.popMatrix();
			RenderHelper.disableStandardItemLighting();
			GlStateManager.disableRescaleNormal();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.lightmapTexUnit);
			//GlStateManager.disableTexture2D();
			GlStateManager.setActiveTexture(OpenGlHelper.defaultTexUnit);

Do i still need the calls to OpenGlHelper?

The one that sets a high brightness? Yes if you still want that, otherwise your code looks good but could do with a little bit of cleanup

[GiantNuker]

22 minutes ago, Cadiboo said:

The one that sets a high brightness? Yes if you still want that, otherwise your code looks good but could do with a little bit of cleanup

Thanks @Cadiboo