What's the difference between a Cake block and a Cauldron ?

 

you can eat cake

caudlrons take water

 

yeah okay, great. what about this ?

 

they are both special renders

they both keep count

and render differently depending on times eaten/water available

cake and cauldron MAY just use meta

you could pull it off without a tile entity

 

yes, that too. but you're not close to it.

 

I'm using an ItemRenderer, to render an item into a model.

But, blockmodels already exist? so why bother making new models !

 

I use this very line to render blocks

 

render.renderBlockAsItem(blockToRender, 0, 1.0f);

 

where "render" is an instance of RenderBlocks

 

this works with Cake and Reed/Sugar Cane

it lacks the rendering with flowerpots, cauldrons, brewing stands, repeaters, comparators and signs. WHY ??

 

Thanks for any reflective answer or help.

 

Cakes in fact just set different block bounds based on metadata. After all, it's just one single quad.

 

Cauldrons, on the other hand, actually use a custom render inside RenderBlocks.