Fluid tank block with multiple tanks [SOLVED]

[Skelyvelocirap]

Hello,

 

I have a block called the fluid tank. This block is... as the name suggests... a fluid tank. The issue though is that i want it to have two FluidTank inside. One of those tanks being like normal but the other tank can only be filled using a machine but can be drained like normal(but has priority). Is that possible? And if so, how can i do that? Thank you!

Edited April 11, 2020 by Skelyvelocirap
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[DavidM]

Yes. Just create another fluid handler.

Then, in getCapability, determine which tank to return based on the given information and the current data in the tile entity.

[Skelyvelocirap]

Why do i need to create a new Fluid handler? Can i not do this with the normal one?
 

28 minutes ago, DavidM said:

 

Then, in getCapability, determine which tank to return based on the given information and the current data in the tile entity.

And so i can simply choose what tank using getCapability? Ohhhh, thats what that means...

return CapabilityFluidHandler.FLUID_HANDLER_CAPABILITY.cast(tank);

The tank is the tank that is actually being used. I thought that that line simply meant that the tank has the fluid handler capability. Ok, Thank you for your help! I will try this immediately!

Hmmm.. although, how do i check if the person is filling or draining?

Edited April 11, 2020 by Skelyvelocirap

[DavidM]

2 hours ago, Skelyvelocirap said:

Hmmm.. although, how do i check if the person is filling or draining?

I don’t think it is possible to tell so from the tile entity with the vanilla fluid handler.

However you could create your own fluid handler implementation that handles 2 different tanks and their insertion/extraction.

[Skelyvelocirap]

How exactly would i do that? Creating the class would be simple but i mean how would i make them discern whether its filling or draining?

[Skelyvelocirap]

6 hours ago, diesieben07 said:

I mean... IFluidHandler has a method for filling (helpfully called fill) and two for draining (helpfully called drain). What more do you need?

I thought that those two were used to actually drain/fill or check it is possible to do so. How should i use those to solve my issue?

[Skelyvelocirap]

Success! It works! I am not sure if it is exactly(i think someone might have told me that actually) but what i did was use drain from the i fluid handler but simulated it and checked if it wasn't null. If it isn't null then i just return the second tank. I will post the code just so anyone who needs help can use it and so that if its not very efficiently done than you can tell me.

https://github.com/Skelyvelocirap/Thebalance/blob/master/java/skely/mod/objects/block/TBFluidTank.java

https://github.com/Skelyvelocirap/Thebalance/blob/master/java/skely/mod/objects/block/tileentity/TileEntityTank.java

[Skelyvelocirap]

Oops, it was on private. It should be fixed now!