[1.8] Rendering of non-water blocks underwater

[10paktimbits]

Is it possible to render a coral block properly so that you don't see the waterfall effect of adjacent water blocks on the sides of the coral block?

 

How does one do this?

 

I was able to make this work in 1.7.10 by using Material.water for the block and some additional code but this no longer works in 1.8 with all of the changes.

 

The Material.coral type seems like it should be used for this purpose, but that type has never worked to help with the rendering.

 

Thank you.

 

[Draco18s]

You'd (probably) have to ASM the BlockWater shouldSideBeRendered method to properly check for adjacent block material type being coral.

[brandon3055]

You'd (probably) have to ASM the BlockWater shouldSideBeRendered method to properly check for adjacent block material type being coral.

That sounds like something maby forge should do.

[Draco18s]

You'd (probably) have to ASM the BlockWater shouldSideBeRendered method to properly check for adjacent block material type being coral.

That sounds like something maby forge should do.

 

Have fun convincing Lex that it's important.

[larsgerrits]

Try passing

Material.water

as the block material.

[10paktimbits]

Thank you for your replies.

 

I have tried all of the solutions suggested (and others) and this still will not work.

 

My blocks render fine - the problem is with the rendering of the adjacent water blocks since they are not detecting a Material.coral block and adjusting which faces should be rendered.

 

Unfortunately, this is critical for a bunch of plant blocks in my mod that I now have to remove completely due to the 1.8 changes.

 

Perhaps sometime down the road this will be fixed.

 

Thanks again.

[larsgerrits]

Did you try to pass

Material.water

as your block material? Because it shouldn't render the side if the material of the block next to it is the same material.

[brandon3055]

Did you try to pass

Material.water

as your block material? Because it shouldn't render the side if the material of the block next to it is the same material.

Try passing

Material.water

as the block material.

[10paktimbits]

I have tried Material.water and subclassing off of both BlockLiquid and BlockStaticLiquid and these just don't work because rendering of water blocks is internal to MC/Forge and I cannot 'add' my own rendering to the existing render.

 

Some properties of water, like the vacuum effect, cause issues with my blocks that are not acceptable for what I am trying to achieve. Water blocks also require all metadata bits in a state called 'level' - my blocks are based on a single class that has its own block state - creating a new class just for these is prohibitive and it is absolutely critical that all of my blocks be based on a single class.

 

I believe that this is something that needs to be solved in Forge, and not modders having to work around this a number of different ways. The Material.coral type is a great idea that just isn't fully implemented.

[10paktimbits]

Have fun convincing Lex that it's important.

 

He's a busy genius with mountains of much more important things to focus on. A sacrifice for my mod yes, but not a show stopper.

[Eternaldoom]

https://github.com/Eternaldoom/Realms-of-Chaos/blob/1.8/com/eternaldoom/realmsofchaos/blocks/BlockSeaweed.java