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--- tutorial:blockappearance [2019/07/25 09:06] – created fudge
+++ tutorial:blockappearance [2020/04/04 20:25] – [Making a block transparent] Add clarification to non-opaque earthcomputer
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 ====== Manipulating a Block's appearance ======
+//This is the 1.15 version of this tutorial. For the 1.14 version, see [[tutorial:1.14:blockappearance|Manipulating a Block's appearance (1.14)]].//
 ===== Making a block transparent =====
 You may have noticed that even if your block's texture is transparent, it still looks opaque.
-To fix this, override ''getRenderLayer'' and return ''BlockRenderLayer.TRANSLUCENT'':
+To fix this, you need to set your block's render layer to cutout or transparent.
+In a client-sided mod initializer, add:
 <code java>
-class MyBlock extends Block {
+BlockRenderLayerMap.INSTANCE.putBlock(ExampleMod.MY_BLOCK, RenderLayer.getCutout());
-    @Override
+// Replace `RenderLayer.getCutout()` with `RenderLayer.getTranslucent()` if you have a translucent texture.
-    public BlockRenderLayer getRenderLayer() {
-        return BlockRenderLayer.TRANSLUCENT;
-    }
-    //...
-}
 </code>
-You probably also want to make your block transparent. To do that, use the ''Material'' constructor to set ''blocksLight'' to false.
+You probably also want to make your block transparent. To do that, use the ''nonOpaque'' method on your block settings.
 <code java>
 class MyBlock extends Block {
-     private static Material myMaterial = new Material(
-            MaterialColor.AIR,   //materialColor,
-            false,   //isLiquid,
-            false, // isSolid,
-            true, // blocksMovement,
-            false,// blocksLight,  <----- Important part, the other parts change as you wish
-            true,//  !requiresTool,
-            false, //  burnable,
-            false,//  replaceable,
-            PistonBehavior.NORMAL//  pistonBehavior
-    );
     public MyBlock() {
-        super(Settings.of(myMaterial);
+        super(Settings.of(Material.STONE).nonOpaque());
     }
-    //...
+    [...]
 }
+If you do not mark your block as non-opaque like this, then block faces behind the block will not render and you will be able to see through the world.
 </code>
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     }
 </code>
-We then need to make our block unselectable by making its `outlineShape` be non-existent.
+We then need to make our block unselectable by making its outline shape be non-existent.
-So override ''getOutlineShape' and return an empty ''VoxelShape'':
+So override ''getOutlineShape'' and return an empty ''VoxelShape'':
 <code java>
     @Override
     public VoxelShape getOutlineShape(BlockState blockState, BlockView blockView, BlockPos blockPos, EntityContext entityContext) {
-       return VoxelShapes.cuboid(0,0,0,0,0,0);
+       return VoxelShapes.empty();
     }
 </code>