help with custom redstone wire

[jamiemac262]

hi, i have been trying to make my own version of red alloy wire from the redpower wires mod, i have the block and can place it, and redstone connects to it. however beyond that i haven't a clue what to do. i am unable to make the redstone signal travel through the wire and i do not know how to make it change shape to connect to other wires or how to make it attach to walls. could someone point me in the right direction?

 

what i have so far can be found here http://gw.minecraftforge.net/0Pm4

 

thank you in advance

[hydroflame]

i dont have an answer but i have a tip

do you really need a new kind of redstone power? because if you were using a already made API you could concentrate on actually making your mod instead of spending time on this.

 

just my 2 cent, maybe you DO need to make a new kind of redstone wire becasue you really need some special fonctionnality with it

 

 

good modding

[jamiemac262]

my friends and i are tired of waiting for red alloy wire to update to 1.6 so that we can use it with the latest mods again, and i cant find the source for the redpower mod so this seemed like the best solution. the mod is going to be this and a bunch of different colours of red wire.

[hydroflame]

do you actually know how to code ?

and by "know how to code" i mean is this the first thing ever you do in java/coding ?

[jamiemac262]

i've just finished college and am moving onto university for software development, i know java very well as it's all we used the last 2 years of college

[hydroflame]

*releif*

 

can you get access to the mod you want to clone source ? usually source help a little

 

EDIT: also, welcome to the club (im doign a master in software engineering at the moment )

[jamiemac262]

i have tried to look for the source a few times, as far as i can tell the mod is not open source

[hydroflame]

hmmm thats too bad, well the only pointer i can give you is look at how vanilla redstone wire work

 

 

[Flenix]

I have a block which can pass redstone horizontally but it doesn't work if there is more than one of the block touching. Any use to you?

 

I'm away from my PC right now so can't get to it, but if you find "FlenixRoads" on GitHub it's the "PowerPoleMed" or something along those lines. I was experimenting so only the medium size worked- small and large don't.