Flagmod: A modification to re-introduce wool to CTF (WIP)

Okay. So, here's the dealio:
I have three specific JSON rendering files to allow dropped banners to render as dropped wool blocks, however, banner rendering is somewhat complicated. The color of the banner is determined using block entity data (which is a type of NBT(?)) as shown:

So, I'll need to somehow access block entity data/banner/patterns/color and then have a logic gate of if blue then apply bluewool.json
I'm looking for a workaround that would allow me not to use the modification and instead jump right to a resource pack, but there appears to be none as of yet, so I've decided to go ahead and write a client side modification for the rendering. There's just a minor problem: I've never worked with mine craft style java, so the whole task is dating. I've looked at this tutorial http://www.minecraftforge.net/wiki/How_to_use_NBT_Tag_Compound
and it seems to be basically what I'm looking for, but I'm still rather unsure.

By the way it's pretty much impossible for me to re-add helmets to players who are holding the flag. Additionally, this would be misleading as flag holders would appear to have full armor even though they take somewhat significant extra damage (especially heavies).

Anyways, anyone besides Phanta with coding knowledge specific to Minecraft- it would be very very helpful if you could point me in the right direction at this point. Thanks, Inge.

 

Anyone with basic mine craft modding knowledge would be really helpful here, I know that @NomNuggetNom (although he thinks I'm quite salty) might be able to help. Actually, any developer who's working for brawl might be able to point me in the right direction. As far as mods go, this should be relatively simple, not unlike adding an item to the game. This is client side versus server side, but some experienced eyes might be able to help.

 

Sort of. I'm trying to have a banner change it's model JSON based on a tile entity data bit (being color), which, as I've continued reading, is not in fact an NBT. the good news is that since durability can change a texture in 1.9, so can tile entity data, which means that any mod I code will be rendered absolultey obsolete by the 1.9 update, meaning that I might not even bother...

The most fascinating part of tis dilemma is that I can get the banner to look like a wool block, but i can't get said wool block to change color in the right instances (i.e, when the banner changes color.)

 

What I really need to do is stop the banner from rendering and instead render the wool.

 

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No, inventory rendering is as a banner, but dropped item rendering is a block of wool. Less obvious nut that's why there's compasses.