Im working on a client side mod which needs to render entnties inside of a gui (this includes mainly players with specific armor on, and items) i am currently looking at DrawContext.addEntity but cant figure it out or how to get an EntityRenderState, can anyone help me out?
#render client side entities within gui
low tree
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There's a method in I think the players inventory that can render a player that you can just call
Unsure if it can render other entities
pale aspen
it can cuz it’s used for horses and stuff too
iirc it’s InventoryScreen.renderEntityInScreen (mojmaps) or something along those lines
do note you’ll probably need fabric api if you plan on rendering multiple in a single frame
low tree
alright i got rendering players working but how do i get a client side ItemEntity that i can then render
low tree
i do want to also ask how to render just normal items but at a custom size
low tree
do note you’ll probably need fabric api if you plan on rendering multiple in a s...
could you elaborate?
pale aspen
could you elaborate?
basically for most picture in picture renderers (like the entity in gui one), the game will only use the last submitted state for all of them in the same frame, so they all render the last entity
fabric api fixes that, can’t remember what module specifically but probably one of the rendering ones
low tree
basically for most picture in picture renderers (like the entity in gui one), th...
sounds interesting, i can try to look for it
pale aspen
u dont need to do anything special for it to work btw, just as long as its installed pip renderers will work as you expect
low tree
pip renderer?
pale aspen
picture in picture
low tree
ah so just like screens?
pale aspen
when you see an entity or other 3d element in a gui its a picture in picture renderer, i think yarn calls them special ui element or something but yea
low tree
ah ok gotcha