My mod (like many) introduces a new gem to use for tools and armor. I've got single-player working. However, when I try my mod on a server, I run into a paradox.

 

My armor classes constructor calls its super, and the super constructor demands an index that it can assign to renderIndex. I could simply pass a literal '5', but then my mod would collide with every other armor mod in the universe that does the same thing.

 

So I would like to pass the result of a method instead of simply '5'. The method I found is addNewArmourRendererPrefix (prefix). Unfortunately, like others before me, my call to that method blows sky high on the server side. The reason is immediately obvious: The method uses members of the RenderBiped class, and the server doesn't load it.

 

But my problem remains: I don't want to use a literal 5 that is guaranteed to collide with other armor mods. So how do I resolve this dilemma? How do I get a unique "next" armor index for my super() call without upsetting the server?

 

EDIT: I'm now investigating enum ArmorMaterial for some way to arrive at the same number that render would have given me.

   

First of all +100 for the use of the word Conundrum

 

Then: Easiest solution would be to make a method in your proxies that returns an int. In the client proxy make it call the newArmorRendererPrefix method, on the server just use -1, the server doesn't care about the value.

I'm using Forge 1.7.2, so I don't know squat about proxies.

 

However, I found another route via the ordinal() method of enum ArmorMaterial. As long as every armor registers a new material, this works:

 

      private static final String prefix = "ruby";

      public static final ArmorMaterial armorRuby = EnumHelper.addArmorMaterial (prefix, 33, new int[] { 3, 8, 6, 3 }, 25);

      private static final int ARMOR_INDEX = armorRuby.ordinal ();

 

That frees me to use addNewArmourRendererPrefix(prefix) only on the client side, and I just have to hope that the indices will align (or not matter) if there are ever multiple mods.