Topic category: User side tutorials
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! ❤️
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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 🤖
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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:)
Is it possible to make the 2D item also display in the item frames? Only displayed in the GUI
Hi, is it possible to make the ground and item frame/fixed models 2d also like the gui one?
Yes, all you have to do is get the code for those and add them into it
for example just use “ground” instead of like third person
Do i also have to write ''Gui_light'' or ''ground_light''
no
just use blockbench to find some of this out and join the neotoolkit server (in my discord post there someone gave the code for it)
Do you have the code for the ground and item frame models?
No, it is very easy to find though.
You can just use Blockbench for the code and paste it in
I can find it in block bench but I have no clue how to make it render lmaoo which parts do I need to copy?
Someone made the ground one:
If anyone else wants to do this, scroll down to "perspectives" in the .json file and paste this code underneath the "gui" perspective.
appreciate this
i tried in every way possible but neither the texture on the 3d model in the hand and the ground code don't work, please help
It is confirmed to work, this is a problem on your end
i fixed it all and i'm super happy about it, but i still have this problem :
https://mcreator.net/forum/105856/im-fighting-2-weeks-now
please help me