[1.12.2] delaying syncing of tile entity to client

[Cadiboo]

I'm sending a sync packet in my TileEntity.onLoad method and its getting to the client before the tile entity is created on the client, is there any way to delay sending the packet or send the packet after the tile entity exists on the client?

 

my code:

https://github.com/Cadiboo/WIPTechAlpha/blob/d38b6f136293df8cbb606f1781f1d4b56c0c698d/src/main/java/cadiboo/wiptech/tileentity/TileEntityPeripheral.java#L84-L88

[Animefan8888]

2 minutes ago, Cadiboo said:

I'm sending a sync packet in my TileEntity.onLoad method and its getting to the client before the tile entity is created on the client, is there any way to delay sending the packet or send the packet after the tile entity exists on the client?

I don't think you need to send a custom packet. You should just override the default sync methods in the TileEntity class. But if this is what you need to do send a packet from the client to the server from onLoad and then send a packet back syncing the TE.

[Cadiboo]

2 minutes ago, Animefan8888 said:

I don't think you need to send a custom packet. You should just override the default sync methods in the TileEntity class. But if this is what you need to do send a packet from the client to the server from onLoad and then send a packet back syncing the TE.

I was trying to avoid using a sync request. I've always used custom packets because I couldn't figure out the default sync methods when I first started modding, could you give me some examples of people using them?

[Animefan8888]

Just now, Cadiboo said:

could you give me some examples of people using them?

Here is an example, it is at the bottom of the class.

[jabelar]

This problem is common on entity and tile entity creation where you might want to make sure the client-side is fully instantiated and initialized before doing something. As mentioned there are some ways to do that already (like entities have spawn data mechanism).

 

But I admit sometimes I just send a delayed packet. It is really easy to do it, just create a boolean field in your tile entity called something like initPacketSent and init that to false. Then in your update method that runs every tick, just check if it is false and if so send the packet and set to true. This should delay the packet until the first time the update method is run which is usually the tick after creation and usually sufficient delay. If you want to delay more and really be sure then instead of a boolean just use a int value (like 5 for five ticks) and count down in your update method.

[Cadiboo]

Ok, I'm updating my code to use the default methods, how should I send a client->server update?

[Animefan8888]

1 hour ago, Cadiboo said:

how should I send a client->server update?

This requires a custom packet