[TUTORIAL] 2d Texture In GUI and 3d Texture In Hand 👾

SUPPORTS MCREATOR 2023.4 RELEASE

^{(For 1.19.4 and possibly less use forge:separate-perspective instead of forge:separate_transforms, you will also want to use your_mod_name:items/cool_item_texture and your_mod_name:blocks/cool_item_texture)}

Hello!

Today I will walk you through a Guide of how to create items that appear as 2d in your inventory and 3d in your hand! ❤️

▶ Creating the Item

First off open Blockbench and select Java Block/Item 🧱

Once you've created your model and model texture export both of them to Mcreator and give them your selected names 📜

Now create your item and make sure that the item has the model linked and make sure that you also link the main texture (The 2d one)

Once you've finished everything else for your item Lock the Code and open the .json code file 📰

   Click the .json file to enter the coding area 👾

Once you've done that it should show something near this

It always depends on the item and sometime it has things like size or rotation but this is usually the base 🤖

▶ Changing the Code

Now that you're ready to edit the code follow these steps exactly: 

• Remove all of the current code, if there is more than showed in the image delete that too
• Paste This in:

{
  "loader": "forge:separate_transforms",
  "gui_light": "front",
  "base": {
    "parent": "your_mod_name:custom/cool_item_model",
    "textures": {
      "0": "your_mod_name:block/cool_item_model_texture"
    },
    "display": {
      "thirdperson_righthand": {
        "translation": [
          0,
          3,
          1
        ],
        "scale": [
          0.55,
          0.55,
          0.55
        ]
      },
      "thirdperson_lefthand": {
        "translation": [
          0,
          3,
          1
        ],
        "scale": [
          0.55,
          0.55,
          0.55
        ]
      },
      "firstperson_righthand": {
        "rotation": [
          -0,
          -0,
          -0
        ],
        "translation": [
          0,
          3,
          1
        ]
      },
      "firstperson_lefthand": {
        "rotation": [
          0,
          0,
          -0
        ],
        "translation": [
          0,
          3,
          1
        ]
      },
      "ground": {
        "translation": [
          0,
          3,
          1
        ],
        "scale": [
          0.55,
          0.55,
          0.55
        ]
      },
      "fixed": {
        "rotation": [
          0,
          -90,
          0
        ],
        "translation": [
          0,
          3,
          1
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "perspectives": {
    "gui": {
      "parent": "item/generated",
      "textures": {
        "layer0": "your_mod_name:item/cool_item_texture"
      },
      "gui_light": "front"
    }
  }
}

Of course you can change things like translation, scale and rotation later to fit to your liking! 👍

To explain the texture and model linkings:
 

"your_mod_name:custom/cool_item_model" is the model name. An example is "wizards_and_warders:custom/fire_wand_model" ✅

The first part is your mod name, then the model name (The file you imported, the .json one)

"your_mod_name:block/cool_item_model_texture" is the model texture. An example is "wizards_and_warders:block/fire_wand_model_texture" ✅

The first part is your mod name, then the model texture (The file you imported with the .json one, the .png texture file)

"your_mod_name:item/cool_item_texture" is the item texture. An example is "wizards_and_warders:item/fire_wand_texture" ✅

The first part is your mod name, then the item texture (The image file you created for the item in your inventory and GUI)

Thank you for reading this post! If you need help feel free to comment ❤️

_{^{(After the new update I will update this code to make sure it still works. Update, it does! c:)}}