I've read diesieben07's and Ablaze's tutorials on the SNI stuff and I still don't quite understand it.

 

I'm working on a mod with a single block which is a tile entity that has two inventories. Basically what I want to know is when the inventory gets updated (however that happens, I assume there's an event to use) I create an appropriate packet and send it using the static SNW instance I made in the preInit event? Also, how do I convert all the ItemStacks in the inventories into bytes for the toBytes method when my packet class implements IMessage?

 

Also, how do I know what value to pass for the fourth paramter of registerMessage?

If you used GuiContainer/Container, the inventory content is automatically synced between client and server.

If you used GuiContainer/Container, the inventory content is automatically synced between client and server.

 

I'm using the IInventory interface, but I'm not sure of some methods. But that's for another time perhaps.

You don't use any GUI then ?

As long as you keep stuff server-side, I don't see the need for packets there.

 

There is ByteBufUtil class you might want to look into.

I haven't gotten that far yet. I'm still figuring out proxies, and tile entities and inventories and that stuff. I will have a GUI, I don't know what to do for that either.

My machine will have three inventories, one for input which will hold 9 ItemStacks, a processing slot which will hold 1 ItemStack then one for output which will also hold 9 ItemStacks.