So I'm trying to make an animated horse armor texture (the actual armor not the item), is there any way to do this?

I saw this link but couldn't find what the post referred to.

I've looked around and all I could think of was

a) using reflection inside an onClientTick event to change the texture

b) making a PR to forge to put a hook inside the HorseArmorType enum class's getArmorTexture() method to allow modders to return a custom texture

 

which one should I use, or is there another way?

37 minutes ago, Cadiboo said:

which one should I use, or is there another way?

public String getHorseArmorTexture(net.minecraft.entity.EntityLiving wearer, ItemStack stack)

Which exists inside the Item class.

57 minutes ago, Animefan8888 said:

public String getHorseArmorTexture(net.minecraft.entity.EntityLiving wearer, ItemStack stack)

Which exists inside the Item class.

I'll go quietly...

It isn't exactly animatable though, the texture location is cached

41 minutes ago, Cadiboo said:

It isn't exactly animatable though, the texture location is cached

Define animated if you mean like fire, return a different texture based on world time, if you dont you will have to manually render this in RenderLivingEvent.

56 minutes ago, Animefan8888 said:

Define animated if you mean like fire, return a different texture based on world time,

the texture's location from getHorseArmorTexture is cached, and getHorseArmorTexture is only called when something about the horse changes (like putting a saddle on it or feeding it)

1 minute ago, Cadiboo said:

the texture's location from getHorseArmorTexture is cached, and getHorseArmorTexture is only called when something about the horse changes (like putting a saddle on it or feeding it) 

Well then you could simulate that if you wanted to, most likely, but you could also

1 hour ago, Animefan8888 said:

manually render this in RenderLivingEvent.

as an alternative.

1 minute ago, Animefan8888 said:

Well then you could simulate that if you wanted to, most likely, but you could also manually render this in RenderLivingEvent as an alternative.

Yeah, the random updates actually fits in with my theme more, but how would I disable the normal rendering of the armor? Would I use a transparent texture?

1 minute ago, Cadiboo said:

Yeah, the random updates actually fits in with my theme more, but how would I disable the normal rendering of the armor? Would I use a transparent texture?

I believe so, also the first string you pass in to the EnumHelper.addArmor will point to the name of the armor at "textures/entity/horse/armor/horse_armor_" + name

Just now, Animefan8888 said:

I believe so, also the first string you pass in to the EnumHelper.addArmor will point to the name of the armor at "textures/entity/horse/armor/horse_armor_" + name

Yeah, this is solved, but I should have started out with what I was trying to do rather than my solution.
I'm trying to have a material that (ore, block, ingot, armor, tools etc.) that switches between 2 textures at a random interval.

I've gotten all the block models to work and now I'm moving on to the items. I'm doing horse armors first because I can't figure out how custom item models work. 

My problem was that I couldn't use 2 textures for the horse armor enum.

 

Heres my code if it helps anyone in the future

Switching between 2 textures:

ItemModHorseArmor.java#L41-L50

Normal horse armor enum

ModEnums.java#L227-L239