Weird TileEntity Array Behaviour...

[Busti]

Hello,

I've been trying to set up an Array in a TileEntity

public boolean connect[] = {false, false, false, false, false, false};

but every time I set a new variable or every tick it magically resets itself. Is this just me derping with Java or does minecraft not like me?

 

Busti

[M3gaFr3ak]

could you give us the code? are you updating the value from your gui? cuz you need to change it on server side

[Busti]

Its only client sided since I'm just using it for rendering.

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public boolean connect[] = {false, false, false, false, false, false};

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public void updateSides() {
	for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
		this.connect[i] = ApiXPPipe.checkForXPContainer(this.xCoord+Facing.offsetsXForSide[i], this.yCoord+Facing.offsetsYForSide[i], this.zCoord+Facing.offsetsZForSide[i], this.worldObj);
	}

}

updeteSides is called when the blocks neighbour Blocks are changed.

[M3gaFr3ak]

you could try using a packet to change the state on the server and send dedscription packets on change, so it always is synced w/ clients, idk why it doesnt change on client if you set it...

[Busti]

That would take time and why does the server need to know how to render the TE?

[M3gaFr3ak]

since the server oftenly syncs the TE w/ the client, it's being overriden clientside with just the default vars i think. so... yeah

[Busti]

Hmmm but when I set it only client sided It shouldn't do that ...

[Busti]

OK! I just tested it without the @SideOnly... and it seems like its only updating the array on the server now!?

 

EDIT1:But I dont want to send an extra Package to the server every time something changes around the block...

[MineMaarten]

So apparently updateSides() is only called on the server side. And no you shouldn't have gotten an error or something because you're calling a @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT) annotated method because that only will be the case if you test it on a dedicated server instead of the internal SSP one. You'll then see that just the line

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public boolean connect[] = {false, false, false, false, false, false};

will throw an exception as the SideOnly notation only applies to the field and not it's initializer.

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

A couple of thoughts

- your TileClient member variables will be reset every time the chunks are reloaded unless you add them to the constructor and save them to NBT.  See for example TileEntityPiston

- when/from where is your updateSides method called?

- is there any reason your renderer can't just check the six adjacent blocks every time before it renders? 

 

-TGG

 

BTW this link might help with background information about what @SideOnly does... as MineMaarten says, it's actually nothing to do with Server-side vs Client-side code.  It's Client-with-integrated-server vs Dedicated Server.

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-forge-starts-up-your-code.html