Hey guys!

I want to make something like a coverable block, that get's a texture depending on its blockstate. For that I already made a class CoverableBlock with a Property "BlockContainerProperty" extending Property<String>. The BlockContainerProperty could take every possible block (see code below), and it already works with a block of the CoverableBlock-class. So for example, if the property of the block is set to "diamond ore", it will look like diamond ore. Well, I know the basics of JSON-blockmodels and that I could manually make these models, but then I would have to create tons of similar json-files (all just differing in textures) and I guess it wouldn't work with blocks from other mods. So my question is: Is it possible that the block takes the texture of the block that is saved as a String in its property? And then how do I create the json block-models for that?

I'm using Minecraft 1.15 and forge 29.0.4.

 

Code for the BlockContainerPropertyClass:

The constructor is to get all blocks from the IForgeRegistry and save them as strings in a list BLOCKS_TO_STRING

public class BlockContainerProperty extends Property<String> {
    private static final IForgeRegistry<Block> BLOCKS = RegistryManager.ACTIVE.getRegistry(Block.class);
    private static List<String> BLOCKS_TO_STRING;
    protected BlockContainerProperty(String name) {
        super(name, String.class);
        BLOCKS_TO_STRING = new ArrayList<>();
        BLOCKS_TO_STRING.add("empty");
        for (Block b: BLOCKS) {
            BLOCKS_TO_STRING.add(Objects.requireNonNull(b.getRegistryName()).getPath().toLowerCase());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Collection<String> getAllowedValues() {
        return BLOCKS_TO_STRING;
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<String> parseValue(String value) {
        if(this.getAllowedValues().contains(value)) {
            return Optional.of(value);
        }
        return Optional.empty();
    }

    @Override
    public String getName(String value) {
        return value;
    }

    public static BlockContainerProperty create(String name) {
        return new BlockContainerProperty(name);
    }
}

 

The code for the CoverableBlock - Class:

public class CoverableBlock extends Block {

    public static final BlockContainerProperty CONTAINS = BCBlockStateProperties.CONTAINS;

    public CoverableBlock(Properties properties) {
        super(properties);
        this.setDefaultState(this.getDefaultState().with(CONTAINS,"empty"));
    }

    @Override
    protected void fillStateContainer(StateContainer.Builder<Block, BlockState> builder) {
        builder.add(CONTAINS);
    }
}

And the code for BCBlockStateProperties is just this one line, so the Property is shown as "contains:" and then the block:

public static final BlockContainerProperty CONTAINS = BlockContainerProperty.create("contains");

And finally this is, how I register the block:

public class BCBlocks {
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger();

    @Mod.EventBusSubscriber(bus = Mod.EventBusSubscriber.Bus.MOD)
    @ObjectHolder(BlockCarpentryMain.MOD_ID)
    public static class RegistryEvents {
        @SubscribeEvent
        public static void onRegisterBlocks(RegistryEvent.Register<Block> event) {
            event.getRegistry().registerAll(
                    setup(BCBlockList.coverableBlock = new CoverableBlock(CoverableBlock.Properties.create(Material.WOOD, MaterialColor.WOOD).harvestTool(ToolType.AXE).harvestLevel(0).hardnessAndResistance(0.4f).sound(SoundType.WOOD)), "coverable_block")
            );

            LOGGER.info("Registered all blocks from BlockCarpentry");
        }

        public static <T extends IForgeRegistryEntry<T>> T setup(final T entry, final String name) {
            return setup(entry, new ResourceLocation(BlockCarpentryMain.MOD_ID, name));
        }

        public static <T extends IForgeRegistryEntry<T>> T setup(final T entry, final ResourceLocation registryName) {
            entry.setRegistryName(registryName);
            return entry;
        }
    }
}

I would be very glad, if you could teach me, how to get the block to display the texture of the block that is saved as a string in its property.

Sorry for bad english and grammatical errors, I've tried my best.

Thanks for help in advance! ?

 

 

P.S.: If you're wondering what the purpose of that is: Since "Carpenters Blocks" is not yet available for 1.15 and I still want to play the mod with friends, I try to create something similar and this is just the base.

Oh.. Okay, thank you very much. I'll try this! Have a nice day and thanks for telling me ?