I have set up the block so that I has multiple textures however, there seems to be a bug were it only displays the correct textures when it's clicked you can see what I mean

 

Does anyone know why this is happening

The git hubs

 

Block

https://github.com/PandaTeam/HydroBlocks/blob/master/src/hydroblocks/blocks/BatteryBlock.java

 

 

TileEntity

https://github.com/PandaTeam/HydroBlocks/blob/master/src/hydroblocks/blocks/tileentities/TileEntityBattery.java

 

 

 

Umm why do you have 2 methods making tile entities?

@Override
public TileEntity createTileEntity(World world, int meta) {
return new TileEntityBattery();
}
@Override
public TileEntity createTileEntity(World world, int meta) {
return null;
}

I missed that, I must have used add unimplemented method at one point. I think that made some progress, it still flickers however it doesn't require to be clicked for it to be seen.

 

This probably isn't related, but you have a typo here:

 

                if (energyStored >= 0 && energyStored <= 100) { //what happens at 200?
                        worldObj.setBlockMetadataWithNotify(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord, 0, 3);
                        
                }

 

As to your issue:

Client-server disparity.  You need to implement getDescriptionPacket (if I am recalling the method name correctly) and onPacketData.  What's happening is that your server-side tile entity is changing the block metadata to not-zero and the client sided tile entity is changing it back....because it doesn't have the correct energy values!

 

This is why it flickers any time it changes from 10% to 20% or back: changing the metadata to what it already is doesn't send an update packet.

This probably isn't related, but you have a typo here:

 

                if (energyStored >= 0 && energyStored <= 100) { //what happens at 200?
                        worldObj.setBlockMetadataWithNotify(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord, 0, 3);
                        
                }

 

As to your issue:

Client-server disparity.  You need to implement getDescriptionPacket (if I am recalling the method name correctly) and onPacketData.  What's happening is that your server-side tile entity is changing the block metadata to not-zero and the client sided tile entity is changing it back....because it doesn't have the correct energy values!

 

This is why it flickers any time it changes from 10% to 20% or back: changing the metadata to what it already is doesn't send an update packet.

 

 

gotta hate typo's

 

I will have a look thought http://www.minecraftforge.net/wiki/Packet_Handling i think that's what your getting at.

 

But for now im off to party, Happy new years (even if it's a bit late / early depending on timezones)

 

 

No no.  You don't need to packethandle this yourself.

 

You need this:

 

        public Packet getDescriptionPacket() {
                NBTTagCompound nbtTag = new NBTTagCompound();
                this.writeToNBT(nbtTag);
//this packet already handles the problem you have.
                return new Packet132TileEntityData(this.xCoord, this.yCoord, this.zCoord, 1, nbtTag);
        }

        public void onDataPacket(INetworkManager net, Packet132TileEntityData packet) {
                readFromNBT(packet.data);
        }

Thank you very much for the help