I need help with a few things...

[supremegamer76]

Hi I had another post on one problem I had... now it's solved but I need more help... This thread is for any other help I need and I'll put my questions in here.

first of all, I'm trying to make a block similar to dispensers but instead of the block doing right click things, it will do left click things. the problem I'm having is making the block face the player when placed along with it being placed facing up and down... how do I do this?

Here is the link to the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/supremegamer76/MinecraftPlusMod

 

[SatanicSanta]

You could just extend BlockRotatedPillar instead of Block and it'll handle it for you.

 

[supremegamer76]

ok I did that... what next?

 

[SatanicSanta]

ok I did that... what next?

Thats it. BlockRotatedPillar will handle the placement orientation stuff for you.

 

[supremegamer76]

Nope doesn't work.... I extended it at BlockTest.java class but it didn't work...

 

[supremegamer76]

here is proof that it didn't work...

Here is where I extended BlockRotatedPillar:

package com.supremegamer76.minecraftplusmod.blocks;

import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.BlockRotatedPillar;
import net.minecraft.block.material.Material;

public class BlockTest extends BlockRotatedPillar{

    public BlockTest(Material materialIn) {
        super(materialIn);
       
    }

}

And here is a video showing it didn't work:

 

[SatanicSanta]

Are you sure it's not doing that because you haven't defined any textures? You have to define a texture for the top and side with BlockRotatedPillar.

Although, if you don't want it to be like a log, use Block and just define different textures based on the side using registerBlockIcons and getIcon. I can't remember exactly if its orientation will be handled automatically, but I'm pretty sure it is. Most methods that you will probably be using for what you want to do will probably have a parameter for the side.

 

[supremegamer76]

by the way this mod is for 1.8... so the registerblockicons and geticon might not work...

 

[SatanicSanta]

Oh, I haven't even considered using 1.8 yet so I have no idea what has changed

 

[supremegamer76]

oh ok

 

[FyberOptic]

Just extending a block isn't good enough anymore to do anything useful. You would still have to register block states for your new block at startup, set which block states to ignore for rendering if applicable, and set up the physical block state and model files related to that block's id. You'd also need code in your block class for dealing with block states, but you can borrow most of that from the dispenser.

Remember when I recommended 1.7.10? All of this kind of crap is why. Adding a block isn't simple anymore. But you'll get the hang of it eventually.

 

[supremegamer76]

ya ok... the only reason why I don't want to use 1.7.10 is that its (to me) its not the latest update...