Hello,

I've been trying to set up an Array in a TileEntity

public boolean connect[] = {false, false, false, false, false, false};

but every time I set a new variable or every tick it magically resets itself. Is this just me derping with Java or does minecraft not like me?

 

Busti

could you give us the code? are you updating the value from your gui? cuz you need to change it on server side

Its only client sided since I'm just using it for rendering.

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public boolean connect[] = {false, false, false, false, false, false};

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public void updateSides() {
	for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
		this.connect[i] = ApiXPPipe.checkForXPContainer(this.xCoord+Facing.offsetsXForSide[i], this.yCoord+Facing.offsetsYForSide[i], this.zCoord+Facing.offsetsZForSide[i], this.worldObj);
	}

}

updeteSides is called when the blocks neighbour Blocks are changed.

you could try using a packet to change the state on the server and send dedscription packets on change, so it always is synced w/ clients, idk why it doesnt change on client if you set it...

That would take time and why does the server need to know how to render the TE?

since the server oftenly syncs the TE w/ the client, it's being overriden clientside with just the default vars i think. so... yeah

Hmmm but when I set it only client sided It shouldn't do that ...

OK! I just tested it without the @SideOnly... and it seems like its only updating the array on the server now!?

 

EDIT1:But I dont want to send an extra Package to the server every time something changes around the block...

So apparently updateSides() is only called on the server side. And no you shouldn't have gotten an error or something because you're calling a @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT) annotated method because that only will be the case if you test it on a dedicated server instead of the internal SSP one. You'll then see that just the line

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public boolean connect[] = {false, false, false, false, false, false};

will throw an exception as the SideOnly notation only applies to the field and not it's initializer.

Hi

 

A couple of thoughts

- your TileClient member variables will be reset every time the chunks are reloaded unless you add them to the constructor and save them to NBT.  See for example TileEntityPiston

- when/from where is your updateSides method called?

- is there any reason your renderer can't just check the six adjacent blocks every time before it renders? 

 

-TGG

 

BTW this link might help with background information about what @SideOnly does... as MineMaarten says, it's actually nothing to do with Server-side vs Client-side code.  It's Client-with-integrated-server vs Dedicated Server.

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-forge-starts-up-your-code.html