I recently made a custom block (not a normally shaped one) and I was wondering how I can make it transparent. It is a crystal ball, and is meant to be a decoration block. It appears clear in my hand but when I place it down, it appears black instead of clear (Its only supposed to be clear where I have no colour.) I heard something about overlaying textures whilst truing to figure it out. If that's what I need to do, I have no idea how to do it. And for any1 who helps, thanks a ton!

PS this is in 1.16.1

Edited September 28, 20204 yr by foonicular
Forgot to add version

RenderTypeLookup#setRenderLayer in your client setup event should do the trick.

Also, update to the latest minor.

I put:

RenderTypeLookup.setRenderLayer(ModBlocks.CRYSTAL_BALL.get(), RenderType.getTranslucent());

and it broke my mod, its says that it cant get it or something like that, when I run the game.

2 minutes ago, foonicular said:

and it broke my mod

You did something wrong in your mod then. Please link your repo so we can see the code.

Ok here's the GitHub page for my mod, I just made it.https://github.com/Foonicular/TutorialMod-1.16.1

On 9/28/2020 at 6:20 PM, ChampionAsh5357 said:

in your client setup event

This isn't in your client setup event.

Sorry, I'm still pretty new to this, where is my client setup? Thanks a ton for your guys' help!

The one that says "client"...?

https://github.com/Foonicular/TutorialMod-1.16.1/blob/main/src/main/java/com/foonicular/tutorial/Tutorial.java#L48

Thanks! You guys are amazing!