hydroflame

August 13, 2013

i dont know who wrote it, but mine is right :

http://www.minecraftforge.net/wiki/Hydroflame_guide_to_textures

August 13, 2013

care to point out which tutorial ? mine or someone else ?

August 12, 2013

that mean myclass.instance() return null

August 12, 2013

not really offtopic, actually quite on topic as thats what op is trying to do.

today i learned

August 12, 2013

yes it will work, its true that raytraycing is more popular when used with reflection/refraction/shadow/lighting but thats in the context of graphic rendering. in game programming ray traycing is used a lot to see if the trajectory of 2 object will interact (in your case blocks and your vision)

August 12, 2013

no you got it right in my case i want to have access to the Timer reference in Minecraft (for rendering). so i only need to copy the reference once since it will be the exact same timer during your whole session. but in the case of redstone theres redstone all over the world so you dont want to have reference to everything. what you would do is use reflection every time you need to access it but that slow

btw when we say slow we mean "slower then strong reference" in some case reflection will be "slow" but still fast enough so that your fps wont drop

August 12, 2013

well example in one of my mod i need to read value from a private field in some class, using reflection i am able to get a reference to that object, save it elsewhere and read the value i need from that reference. so i technicly use reflection only 1 time, to get the reference and after i dont need it. basicly its slow while im getting the reference for the first time and after that everythign is smooth.

on the other side sometimes youll need to constantly use reflection so that not super efficient

August 12, 2013

it it being called from server side, i can safely confirm it does (similar feature)

August 12, 2013

And then maybe release 2 versions 1 API compat and one not?

your choice really, if you use strong reference it will generally be faster. but you if the mod is not installed then it wont work (like gotolink said)

if you need to reflect all the time (like every milisecond) then reflection might not be such a good idea but if its only for setup then reflection is awesome!

August 12, 2013

I just have a preference towards command driven interfaces since they're most efficient.

you must be kidding me... yes ok it works well on linux because you have auto complete and drawing all the icons take a butload of time, but for a game ?!?!

sign-shop is the worst system in the world

and really ? efficient?

please tell me how typing "/gold" is faster then opening your eyes:

August 12, 2013

yes and no, im my case i need mana to be sent to the players (and i want the amount of mana to affect how players are rendered, so every client must know about the mana stats of every player)

so in my case i have to take one of the 22 free id and use one to store the mana level

but generally speaking yes people could probably use the datawatcher for their custom mobs without screwing up everything

August 12, 2013

well with 1.6 its actually very easy to change between profile, so in the worst case you could specificly tell that you cannot use this on a vanilla server

but i think you're right and it's not worth it, there's probably only a very small amount of mods that will need to use those and for now we probably wont be running out of id

the minimum that we should do (those who want to use datawatchers) is to get the id from a config file, so that if 2 mods come in conflict the player can always change them

August 12, 2013

hmm...

well... gotolink is rarely wrong so maybe i just read the code wrong

but it seems to me like:

public static final int[] lightValue = new int[4096];

public Block setLightValue(float par1)
    {
        lightValue[this.blockID] = (int)(15.0F * par1);
        return this;
    }

it will be the same for every block... but considering gotolink post... i would try it just in case

August 12, 2013

good point... i did not think of that, do you remember if the Datawatcher class is loaded when you connect to the server or before that ? (in one case you could simply omit to change the class, in the other you would have to launch the game in "normal datawatcher mode")

August 12, 2013

actually...

/**
* How bright to render this block based on the light its receiving. Args: iBlockAccess, x, y, z

*/

public float getBlockBrightness(IBlockAccess par1IBlockAccess, int par2, int par3, int par4)

{

return par1IBlockAccess.getBrightness(par2, par3, par4, getLightValue(par1IBlockAccess, par2, par3, par4));

}

/**
* Get a light value for the block at the specified coordinates, normal ranges are between 0 and 15

*

* @param world The current world

* @param x X Position

* @param y Y position

* @param z Z position

* @return The light value

*/

public int getLightValue(IBlockAccess world, int x, int y, int z)

{

Block block = blocksList[world.getBlockId(x, y, z)];

if (block != null && block != this)

{

return block.getLightValue(world, x, y, z);

}

return lightValue[blockID];

}

this seems to be the same for every block in the world

using thsi method you could make the block look bright, but not emit light

August 12, 2013

hmmm, are you usign 162 ? my Block.java only has

/**
     * Sets the amount of light emitted by a block from 0.0f to 1.0f (converts internally to 0-15). Returns the object
     * for convenience in constructing.
     */
    public Block setLightValue(float par1)
    {
        lightValue[this.blockID] = (int)(15.0F * par1);
        return this;
    }

which obviously will be the same for every block in the world (which you dont want )

August 12, 2013

I have a weird system for texturing in my mod and I'd like to make it so that if texture packers include a png file with a certain name it will override my weird texturing system. I know in java there's a file.exists() function but that doesn't seem to work in a compiled jar.

yeah ok, sooo .. whats the problem now ?

August 12, 2013

after more research in the issue i have discovered that there is actually a very low amount of values that are actually used

result:

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] class net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayerMP

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 17 value: 0.0 value of type: Float

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 0 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 16 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 1 value: 300 value of type: Short

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 18 value: 0 value of type: Integer

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 6 value: 1.0 value of type: Float

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 7 value: 0 value of type: Integer

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 8 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 9 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:02 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] we are using 9/31 meaning we have 22 free

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT]

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] class net.minecraft.client.entity.EntityClientPlayerMP

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 17 value: 0.0 value of type: Float

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 0 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 16 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 1 value: 300 value of type: Short

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 18 value: 0 value of type: Integer

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 6 value: 1.0 value of type: Float

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 7 value: 0 value of type: Integer

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 8 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 9 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:03 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] we are using 9/31 meaning we have 22 free

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT]

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] class net.minecraft.entity.monster.EntitySlime

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 0 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 16 value: 1 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 1 value: 300 value of type: Short

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 6 value: 1.0 value of type: Float

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 7 value: 0 value of type: Integer

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 8 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 9 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 10 value: value of type: String

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] key: 11 value: 0 value of type: Byte

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] we are using 9/31 meaning we have 22 free

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT]

2013-08-12 10:55:22 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] class net.minecraft.entity.monster.EntitySkeleton