Tell a block to render again?

[gummby8 26]

I am messing around with the tintindex in model files. and now I can change the colors of one of my blocks without the need for thousands of different textures.

 

The problem is when I change the block color random amounts of the blocks change color, only when a block next to them changes.

 

@Override
    @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
    public int colorMultiplier(IBlockAccess worldIn, BlockPos pos, int renderPass)
    {
    	System.out.println("SOMETHING SOMETHING");
        return getBlockColor();
    }

 

the blockColor changes once every second. only the blocks do nothing till I place a block near it. Is there a way to can tell teh block to update every second after I change the blockColor?

 

Thank you,

[Draco18s 2092]

You shouldn't be using standard block models for this.  What you're seeing is that every chunk has a single mesh that gets computed once and rendered until it changes.

 

Which means that simply changing the color multiplier won't be respected until the chunk rerenders for some other reason.

 

You would need to have your block cause a block update when it changes color, which will rerender the whole chunk.  Yikes!  You should use a TileEntity.

[gummby8 26]

you mean a custom tile entity renderer?

 

Damn, I was dinking around with these for a bit when I saw the a thread about tintindex, was hoping it would save me from having to make another renderer.

[gummby8 26]

Well I get 3/4 of the way there.

 

I can see the tile entity rendered. 2 problems

 

1 the texture is flickering over the normal block texture. Like the block and the tile entity are trying to render at the same time.

 

2 the tile entity is rendering as a flat single surface. not just a normal 16x16x16 cube

 

 

@Override
    public void renderTileEntityAt(TileEntity tileEntity, double x, double y, double z, float f, int number){
    	System.out.println("derp?");
        ResourceLocation image = new ResourceLocation("mb:textures/blocks/portal_block.png");
        this.bindTexture(image);
        Tessellator tessellator = Tessellator.getInstance();
        GL11.glPushMatrix();
        GL11.glTranslated(x, y , z);
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().startDrawingQuads();
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(0, 1, 0, 0, 1);
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(1, 1, 0, 1, 1);
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(1, 0, 0, 1, 0);

        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(1, 0, 0, 1, 0);
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(1, 1, 0, 1, 1);
        tessellator.getWorldRenderer().addVertexWithUV(0, 1, 0, 0, 1);
        tessellator.draw();
        
        
        
        GL11.glPopMatrix();
    }

 

I have tried looking through the minecraft code to find stuff with addVertxWithUV and I am not getting anything. It should not be this difficult to render a cube

[gummby8 26]

Ok fixed the quad drawing issue, but the tile entity is still phasing in and out of the cube, even if I give the cube a transparent texture there is still a white background to it.

 

[gummby8 26]

Ok Fixed hat problem with this

 

  GL11.glTranslated(x - 0.005f, y - 0.005f , z - 0.005f);
  GL11.glScalef(1.01f, 1.01f, 1.01f);

 

 

Last problem

 

The tile entity serves as a teleporter. It randomly selects a position from a list every 60 seconds

 

Server side, the tile entity rolls random from 0 - 255 for the RGB colors for the renderer every 60 seconds. This correlates to when the tile entity switches teleport locations. So the players know, if they want their party to stick together, wait for the tile entity to change colors, they proceed into the portal all at once.

 

Problem is, the server is rolling to color code, and the client needs it. Do I need to make a custom packet for this or is there an easy way to sync 1 integer from the server tileEntity to the clients tileEntity without the need for a custom packet?

[Elix_x 75]

Problem is, the server is rolling to color code, and the client needs it. Do I need to make a custom packet for this or is there an easy way to sync 1 integer from the server tileEntity to the clients tileEntity without the need for a custom packet?

[lmgtfy]minecraft forge tile entity synchronization[/lmgtfy]

[Draco18s 2092]

The z-fighting was because you didn't set the block to rendermode -1.  So it was rendering itself, then the TE was rendering on top of it afterward.

 

The scale only makes the z-fighting go away because now the TE is 1% larger.

[gummby8 26]

Problem is, the server is rolling to color code, and the client needs it. Do I need to make a custom packet for this or is there an easy way to sync 1 integer from the server tileEntity to the clients tileEntity without the need for a custom packet?

[lmgtfy]minecraft forge tile entity synchronization[/lmgtfy]

 

 

/sigh first page was what I needed.

 

what is upsetting is I looked right at that page and didn't do anything with it....admittedly I was drunk >.<

[Draco18s 2092]

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png[/img]