Do tile entities need a ItemBlock and a .json file to have its texture be shown in the inventory?

[TheRPGAdventurer]

i have a tile entity that looks like a shulker, its texture works when placed to the ground, but they appear purple and black(somethings missing) in the inventory, plus when you break them they use these white particles that looks like white enchantment letters not what youd expect because my tile entity is ender pearl green. so do these tile entities .json in assets file like regular blocks? if so what  do i put i there to make it use the block texture, most blocks i made have no itemblocks in it. It is based on the shulker code btw. even uses the same model from shulkers with animations.

 

ItemBlock: https://pastebin.com/yT6PtYh7

block: https://pastebin.com/UPKzfzDQ

tileentity: https://pastebin.com/c9bq9zFE

Edited April 21, 2019 by TheRPGAdventurer

[TheRPGAdventurer]

On 4/21/2019 at 8:26 PM, diesieben07 said:

 

• Items always require a json model, regardless of if they are an ItemBlock or not. There is a hack that can be done to make them render "in code", similar to a TESR, use Item#setTileEntityItemStackRenderer with a custom TileEntityItemStackRenderer implementation for that.

Im assuming this hack is used so you dont have to use a .json block model?