So, I have a tile entity called TileEntityEnergizer and I have a TESR that renders it just fine, but I want to have it change the texture based on the isMultiblock() and getMultiblockSize() properties of my TileEntityEnergizer. For some reason, when I print out isMultiblock() and getMultiblockSize() from the TESR, they end up with values they never should have, such as 0 for getMultiblockSize(). I know that the method updateTileEntityAt() is passing me a TileEntityEnergizer because I had it check it and it worked. I'm not sure why im not getting the correct values from my methods...

 

TESR:

https://github.com/AnZaNaMa/ExpTools/blob/master/src/main/java/com/AnZaNaMa/ExpTools/Entity/TileEntity/EnergyToolsTESR.java

 

TileEntityEnergizer:

https://github.com/AnZaNaMa/ExpTools/blob/master/src/main/java/com/AnZaNaMa/ExpTools/Entity/TileEntity/TileEntityEnergizer.java

if(some_value == something) {
  //bind texture 1
}
else {
  //bind texture 2
}

 

Now then, here's your code.

 

 if(tileEntity instanceof TileEntityEnergizer){ //this should be true
  TileEntityEnergizer energizer = (TileEntityEnergizer)tileEntity;
  LogHelper.info(energizer.getMultiplier()); //lets just not do anything useful with this value
  image = new ResourceLocation(Reference.MODID + ":textures/blocks/energizer.png"); //bind texture 1
}
else{ //this will never happen
  image = new ResourceLocation(Reference.MODID + ":textures/blocks/energizer.png"); //bind texture 2
}

oh sorry i changed my code when i was troubleshooting. I originally had

 

if(tileEntity instanceof TileEntityEnergizer){
    TileEntityEnergizer energizer = (TileEntityEnergizer)tileEntity;

    if(energizer.getMultiblockSize() == 3){
        image = new ResourceLocation(Reference.MODID + ":textures/blocks/energizer2.png");
    }

    else if(energizer.getMultiblockSize() == 5){
        image = new ResourceLocation(Reference.MODID + ":textures/blocks/energizer3.png");
    }

    else if(energizer.getMultiblockSize() == 7){
        image = new ResourceLocation(Reference.MODID + ":textures/blocks/energizer4.png");
    }

    else{
        image = new ResourceLocation(Reference.MODID + ":textures/blocks/energizer.png");
    }
}

Hi

 

This link might be useful

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample/blob/master/src/main/java/minecraftbyexample/mbe60_network_messages/Notes.txt

 

and this working example

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample/blob/master/src/main/java/minecraftbyexample/mbe20_tileentity_data/Notes.txt

 

-TGG

thanks diesieben and GreyGhost. I used the tutorial on the forge wiki to sync client and server and got it working.