Minecraft – How to make a block able to be oriented (Minecraft 1.13)

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I'm experimenting with making my own Resource Pack for an urban world in Minecraft 1.13.1
My first new block texture is a worn asphalt with a white stripe on the side – for use in creating roads and car parks. So you get plain surface on top if you click on a horizontal surface when placing, and the stripe when you click on a vertical surface.
I made it as a re-texture of pink_concrete (which I'm unlikely to use!), with json files in models/block/ to set the textures and blockstates/ to set the variants, in both cases working from one of the log blocks as an example.

{
"parent": "block/cube_column",
"textures": {
    "end": "block/gray_concrete",
    "side": "block/pink_concrete"
}

}

The textures work but I can still only place the block in top-up orientation.
When I apply the textures to Jungle wood instead, it works as intended. I had thought that setting the parent to cube_column and defining the axes would be sufficient to make it orientable, but clearly I have missed a step somewhere?

There aren't any "spare" orientable blocks that I'm willing to sacrifice – using Jungle Wood was just a test.

[Edited to explain more thoroughly]

Best Answer

Okay, so I know this is old, but in case you still are wondering, I have a little bit of feedback. This is more like what needs to happen, not how to make it happen, as I am rather inexperienced with this kind of thing. I believe you need to define variants of the block in the blockstates json file (if there is one in resource packs, I only know about modding, but I assume there is one). The variant that exists by default is just "normal." However, you need 3 variants: axis=x, axis=y, and axis=z. There is also axis=none but I don't think that it is required. (I found this information on an old Minecraft Forums modding thread here)

Furthermore, you need a way to find which way the block is facing. There is a bit on how to do that in the thread above and can probably be found by investigating the code. Unfortunately, this is where I am not certain, but there is some info on blockstates in the Minecraft Wiki here.

As you can probably tell, I am not the most competent person to help, but I figured that even a little bit could help a bit and maybe you could figure out what you need to do. Hope this helps anyway!

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