[1.12.2] Manually render fire on entity

[Angercraft]

How would I go about manually rendering the fire effect on an entity?

I've tried using

Entity#setFire

but do not want to damage the entity.

[Angercraft]

15 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

Subscribe to RenderLivingEvent.Post. If you want the entity to render on fire, call Render#renderEntityOnFire on the entity (you'll need reflection).

Appreciate the help, will try it out tomorrow. Thank you very much.

[Angercraft]

On 6/24/2019 at 10:18 PM, diesieben07 said:

Subscribe to RenderLivingEvent.Post. If you want the entity to render on fire, call Render#renderEntityOnFire on the entity (you'll need reflection).

Okay I've gotten it to work, thank you very much! Now I don't have much experience with reflection in Java as it is not covered in my university, but I've read about it and would just like to know if this is considered good practice.

 

@SubscribeEvent
    @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
    public static void renderEffect(RenderLivingEvent.Post event) {
        if(affected.contains(event.getEntity())) {
            Class c = Render.class;
            try {
                Method method = c.getDeclaredMethod("renderEntityOnFire", Entity.class, double.class, double.class, double.class, float.class);
                method.setAccessible(true);
                method.invoke(event.getRenderer(), event.getEntity(), event.getX(), event.getY(), event.getZ(), event.getPartialRenderTick());
            } catch (NoSuchMethodException | IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException e) {
                System.out.println("Forge was not present, or method name 'renderEntityOnFire' was changed.");
            }
        }
    }

 

I know the exception handling is not proper, but I would like to know if I've handled the reflection properly?