Container help

[gumgum7134]

i am trying to get into modding, but one thing i still cant seem to get is how to make a container, if anyone happens to know how to make a container, then please share.

[gumgum7134]

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[ImaFool]

You can also take a look at vanilla code for example the furnace

[gumgum7134]

You can also take a look at vanilla code for example the furnace

i tried to replicate the chest and furnace and a couple other things but i couldn't make it work

 

EDIT: okay let me make things a little clearer what is happening is that whenever i try to input an item via a hopper it does nothing and the GUI wont render the items at all its like the block hasn't even had the container registered at all

[Draco18s]

That sounds like you're missing one of two things:

 

1) getDescriptionPacket and onDataPacket methods

2)

if (worldObj != null) worldObj.markBlockForUpdate(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord);

inside your setInventorySlotContents method.

[gumgum7134]

That sounds like you're missing one of two things:

 

1) getDescriptionPacket and onDataPacket methods

2)

if (worldObj != null) worldObj.markBlockForUpdate(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord);

inside your setInventorySlotContents method.

 

which class is this stored in again?

[Draco18s]

Your TileEntity

[KatanaKid]

i am trying to get into modding, but one thing i still cant seem to get is how to make a container, if anyone happens to know how to make a container, then please share.

This series will take you a long time, you need patience, but I learned a lot watching it.

[Draco18s]

Going to drop this in here because it's relevant.

 

I watched the first video in Neale's series and it's horrible. Please don't use that.

He is doing everything manually, instead of teaching people how to use the powerful IDE (Eclipse) at their hands to e.g. override methods automatically. He does not put @Override on them either, so we in the forums get the errors when people update and the names change...

 

And then he puts the .lang file in the wrong place... clearly indicating that he has no idea what the hell he's doing and is just following instructions blindly himself. And failing to. He does not explain in the slightest that it needs to be "assets.<modid>". He makes it look like it's somehow related to your package. It is not. I've not watched more than the first video, but I have no doubts it's gonna continue like this.

[gumgum7134]

Going to drop this in here because it's relevant.

 

I watched the first video in Neale's series and it's horrible. Please don't use that.

He is doing everything manually, instead of teaching people how to use the powerful IDE (Eclipse) at their hands to e.g. override methods automatically. He does not put @Override on them either, so we in the forums get the errors when people update and the names change...

 

And then he puts the .lang file in the wrong place... clearly indicating that he has no idea what the hell he's doing and is just following instructions blindly himself. And failing to. He does not explain in the slightest that it needs to be "assets.<modid>". He makes it look like it's somehow related to your package. It is not. I've not watched more than the first video, but I have no doubts it's gonna continue like this.

 

i know i saw him and i feel pretty much the same way; he doesn't explain anything at all, and just kind of makes it hard to adapt; i find wuppys tutorials much better, and even though he teaches through a specific example he explains what he's doing well enough to be able to adapt if you know enough about programming; in fact the reason i made this topic was because he still hadn't made his tutorial on containers.

 

EDIT: what should go in getDescriptionPacket and onDataPacket