Trying to make a custom liquid, and when I instantiate the BlockLiquid I get an "InvalidMaterial" error... This happens every time I place the liquid from my custom item bucket class.

 

Whats happening is this:

 

 

 

I have my Custom Liquid/Fluid class that is constructed using a custom material:

 

public class BlockFluidCustom extends BlockLiquid {

public static final String name = "fluid_snow";

public BlockFluidCustom() {
	super(Mod.customMaterial);
}

}

 

And whenever I try to place the custom liquid, this method gets invoked...

 

    public static BlockDynamicLiquid getFlowingBlock(Material materialIn)
    {
        if (materialIn == Material.water)
        {
            return Blocks.flowing_water;
        }
        else if (materialIn == Material.lava)
        {
            return Blocks.flowing_lava;
        }
        else
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid material");
        }
    }

 

THUS, the error is thrown. http://minecraftforge.net/forum/Smileys/default/cry.gif

 

Stacktrace:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid material
at net.minecraft.block.BlockLiquid.getFlowingBlock(BlockLiquid.java:383)
at net.minecraft.block.BlockLiquid.getFlowDirection(BlockLiquid.java:292)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.BlockFluidRenderer.renderFluid(BlockFluidRenderer.java:82)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.BlockRendererDispatcher.renderBlock(BlockRendererDispatcher.java:72)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.chunk.RenderChunk.rebuildChunk(RenderChunk.java:178)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.chunk.ChunkRenderWorker.processTask(ChunkRenderWorker.java:100)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.chunk.ChunkRenderDispatcher.updateChunkNow(ChunkRenderDispatcher.java:144)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderGlobal.setupTerrain(RenderGlobal.java:882)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.renderWorldPass(EntityRenderer.java:1264)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.renderWorld(EntityRenderer.java:1207)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.updateCameraAndRender(EntityRenderer.java:1032)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.runGameLoop(Minecraft.java:1048)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:345)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Main.java:117) 

 

Is there a way around this?!?

Could I just change the texture of the fluid, but construct it with Material.water? heeeelllp plis.

Posted by: diesieben07

« on: Today at 12:50:34 AM » Insert Quote

Don't use the vanilla liquid blocks. Use Forge's BlockFluidClassic.

 

Forgot to mention: I tried BlockFluidClassic and I couldn't figure out how to put the texture on the block. Every time I placed it minecraft crashed, giving me a NullPointer..Something about Texture Atlas and a setIcons() method... How would I Implement that method in the liquid classes I have? It that what you are talking about?

I'd have to see the rest of the block's code, because honestly the only trouble I'm having is with registering the fluid.

The texturing is done within the blockstate file now and you have to make sure you define TRANSLUCENT as well as

a few other rendering methods.