How does one use particle effects?

[HappyHippo77]

I've been doing some searching for help with this but can't seem to find anything. I don't want to add new particles into the game, I want to use the vanilla particles. Basically I'm trying to get flame particles to appear over specific parts of a block in my mod (where there are candles) and cannot find anything telling me how to even begin to use particles. So yeah, just some information on how to do that (or pointing to a good tutorial for it) would be nice. I'm using 1.14.4.

[HappyHippo77]

10 hours ago, diesieben07 said:

Look at the torch block, it spawns fire particles.

What do you mean "look at"?

[Ugdhar]

7 minutes ago, HappyHippo77 said:

What do you mean "look at"?

I believe he means to look at the code for vanilla torches to see how they did it

[HappyHippo77]

2 hours ago, Ugdhar said:

I believe he means to look at the code for vanilla torches to see how they did it

How would I do this?

[Ugdhar]

in your IDE under referenced libraries, you should be able to view the forge/minecraft sources, and other assets in the client-extra.jar

[HappyHippo77]

18 hours ago, Ugdhar said:

in your IDE under referenced libraries, you should be able to view the forge/minecraft sources, and other assets in the client-extra.jar

I'm using IntelliJ, and I can't seem to find anything like this. Would it be in "External Libraries"? And if so what would the name in there be? I see nothing similar to "client-extra"...

[HenryRichard]

It is under External Libraries - it'll look something like "Gradle: net.minecraftforge:forge:1.14.4". The assets will be in net.minecraft:client:extra.

Edited March 11, 2020 by HenryRichard

[HappyHippo77]

1 hour ago, HenryRichard said:

It is under External Libraries - it'll look something like "Gradle: net.minecraftforge:forge:1.14.4". The assets will be in net.minecraft:client:extra.

Thanks! One problem though, I can get it down to "client" but there's no "extra".

 

EDIT: well I didn't find "extra", but I did find "block" above "client" and I think it was in there.

Edited March 11, 2020 by HappyHippo77

[Cyborgmas]

you shift-shift to search in intelliJ. Then in the window that appears, in the top right you check the "entire project" box. After that, you can type to search for file names.

[desht]

Another useful Intellij shortcut here is Ctrl-N, the default binding for Navigate -> Class...

Press Ctrl-N and type in the name, or part of the name, of the class you want to find (in this case TorchBlock). You might also need to press Ctrl-N a second time, to toggle on the "include non-project items" checkbox, since TorchBlock isn't part of your own project.  This works for any class known to your project, including all those in external libraries like Forge and (deobfuscated) vanilla code.