[1.10.2] Saving Energy in a tile entity

[Denyol]

Hey, so I've created a new tile entity with the `EnergyStorage` capability, however the capability does not provide a 

serializeNBT()

or 

.deserializeNBT()

method, so I'm unsure how I would save the stored energy? Do I need to subclass EnergyStorage?

 

Also now with the ItemStackHandler capability for inventorys, how do I synchronise a progress bar of the stored energy and the progress of my tile entity?

Edited February 18, 2017 by Denyol

[Choonster]

The IStorage for the IEnergyStorage capability simply saves the stored energy as an NBTTagInt. Either use the IStorage or do the same thing yourself.

 

You can still use IContainerListener#sendProgressBarUpdate and Container#updateProgressBar to synchronise numeric data like stored energy and progress, you just can't use IContainerListener#sendAllWindowProperties. Alternatively, you can use your own packets.

[Denyol]

1 minute ago, Choonster said:

The IStorage for the IEnergyStorage capability simply saves the stored energy as an NBTTagInt. Either use the IStorage or do the same thing yourself.

 

You can still use IContainerListener#sendProgressBarUpdate and Container#updateProgressBar to synchronise numeric data like stored energy and progress, you just can't use IContainerListener#sendAllWindowProperties. Alternatively, you can use your own packets.

EnergyStorage and IEnergyStorage don't implement IStorage

[Choonster]

Just now, Denyol said:

EnergyStorage and IEnergyStorage don't implement IStorage

 

Because IStorage is an unrelated interface for reading capabilities from and writing them to NBT. Use Capability#getStorage to get the IStorage of a Capability.

[Denyol]

1 minute ago, Choonster said:

 

Because IStorage is an unrelated interface for reading capabilities from and writing them to NBT. Use Capability#getStorage to get the IStorage of a Capability.

 

Thank you, but I'm unsure how I would use this in code?

I've tried adding Capability.IStorage<EnergyStorage>,  but that doesn't provide nbt saving, maybe I mis-understood.

[Choonster]

10 minutes ago, Denyol said:

Thank you, but I'm unsure how I would use this in code?

I've tried adding Capability.IStorage<EnergyStorage>,  but that doesn't provide nbt saving, maybe I mis-understood.

 

Call Capability#getStorage on the IEnergyStorage Capability instance to get its IStorage instance, then call IStorage#writeNBT and IStorage#readNBT to write an IEnergyStorage to/read it from NBT.

 

You can get the Capability instance from the CapabilityEnergy.ENERGY field or create your own static field and annotate it with @CapabilityInject(IEnergyStorage.class).

Edited February 18, 2017 by Choonster

[Denyol]

2 minutes ago, Choonster said:

 

Call Capability#getStorage on the IEnergyStorage Capability instance to get its IStorage instance, then IStorage#writeNBT and IStorage#readNBT to write an IEnergyStorage to/read it from NBT.

 

You can get the Capability instance from the CapabilityEnergy.ENERGY field or create your own field and annotate it with @CapabilityInject(IEnergyStorage.class).

Hmm I'll try that, the writeNBT takes a side as a parameter, can I supply null?

*Edit* It appears null should be fine

Edited February 18, 2017 by Denyol