Posts by UnixRano

Quote from Quintine

Its likely to do with an old version of IC2 in the DW20 pack

But it's not, I haven't changed the version of IC2 in the pack and it works fine for me.

Quote from Shadowlife

Great mod, going to download it soon, when everything else i'm using is up to date too
Just a question, if there is all this uprade stuff and so on, why don't you add a quantum saber and maybe also a quantum bow? they might be a bit op, but I suppose they'd be hard to get...
Greets Shadow

BTW, I'm from Germany, so I'm sorry for any mistakes I've made. ;D

That's been suggested before, I guess I'll consider it more for a future item

Quote from Dataiconroy

It's weird though because everything else works but the key. I'll try those suggestions.

Alright. Let me know if you figure out what's causing it, so that I can prevent it from happening in the future or warn people if its unavoidable.

Quote from Dataiconroy

I'm not completely sure...I am incorporating it into FTB using the Direwolf20 modpack.

Well that's even stranger, considering that's exactly what I'm doing too...
Have you added any other mods besides IC2CA to the Direpack? Maybe IC2CA is incompatible with one of them?

Quote from Dataiconroy

I'm not sure if I'm just stupid or something but the IC2CA Upgrades key doesn't work for me. I have changed key binding several times, but to no avail. Is there a simple answer to this problem or is it a bug? Anyway, great mod! Keep up the good work!

I'm not quite sure what could be causing that. It works fine for me.
Make sure that it doesn't conflict with any other keybindings, I'm think MC disables them or something like that when they conflict.
What forge/ic2 are you using?

Quote from Mostlydave1

Could you post a link to version 1.115.208, I'm having trouble finding it, I found the open beta for 1.4.7 In the support forum but it shows version 1.115.207.

I'm new and I'm sure I must be just missing it somewhere.

It's not anywhere on the IC2 forums as far as i can tell, but you can always download the latest version from http://ic2api.player.to:8080/job/IC2_lf/.
Just make sure to get v1.115.222 or earlier, there seems to be a bug with .223 and later that I will fix later tonight or tomorrow..

Quote from Quintine

Awesome
If I were you I would hitup one of the other mod authers that have NEI functionality, they may be able to help you.

Also you need a donate button

Edit: Well that's shitty, my internet crapped itself as i went to post my edit

Anyhow why not add overclocker ability to your assembly table, thus allowing users to chew large amounts of EU to make your assembly go faster.

1M EU and 1Hour

vs

~582M EU and ~9Mins

Seems like a fair trade-off to me (Was just using 1M and 1H as guesstimate starting points)

Edit2: This isnt using quite the same formula for increasing speed as IC2 uses, instead it is using a

T / S = X

Where
T= Time
S= Speed
X= Time after Speed multiplier

So 50% faster would be 150% or 1.5 in that calculation

1. 60 / 1.5 = 40
2. 60 / 2.0 = 30
3. 60 / 2.5 = 24
4. 60 / 3.0 = 20
5. 60 / 3.5 = 17.14285714285714
6. 60 / 4.0 = 15
7. 60 / 4.5 = 13.33333333333333

You get the idea.

Giving what looks like a diminishing return on assembly.
Keeping the default IC2 Power increase per overclocker will also keep balance in check.

Like in my previous edit with a 1M starting cost the cost after 12 overclockers would be 582M EU in 9Mins
working out at ~53,888EU/t

If the base cost of a combining is 100,000EU then 12 overclockers will result in 5.388EU/t (Probably good for vanilla IC2 players) the 1M EU starting point for those with GT installed. (Or the ability to change the base cost of a combine would be handy that way everyone can tailor it to their needs)

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I also have plans to make the machine overclock-able, but it will be with my own more powerful and more expensive overclocker-type upgrade.

As for the donate button, I'll add one later today.
Edit: Added.

Thanks for all the support

Quote from Quintine

Have you thought about adding an NEI module to your mod now that you have your own crafting machine?

I have actually, and I plan to do it at some point.
But first, I need to figure out how to do it... lol.

Quote from heheggg

If that the case then the quantum solar helmet is only charging the suit only. If that was intended and I just didn't notice.... then I might have used the EU of my armor very efficiently for the last few month...

Next time you report a bug, you can leave out the sarcasm and make sure you describe the bug properly, otherwise I will have absolutely no idea what you mean.
And also, before you try and make it seem like I'm an idiot, consider the fact that you somehow missed the capitalized sentence in three places that told you to update your IC2.

That aside, I'll fix that in the next version.

Quote from cyprus2056

Is it possible to get an config option for that? i really like the Turbine / steady flight mode, but hate the jetpack hover/flying style.

It is, but since it would be a server side config option, it would probably just be better to add another mode to the jetpack. In the next version, I'll make it so when flight mode is off, you can press jump + Ic2 mode switch to swap between jetpack Hover, Normal, and Off, and then when flight mode is on, it flies like normal.

Quote from heheggg

The Ultimate Quantum Armor seemed to stopped charging other armor pieces. Also when I place an armor and a upgrade in the armor assembler and charged it with EU. It just stands there without any updates or do anything.

The Ultimate Quantum Armor never charged your other armor pieces, only tools you're using.

As for that second part, UPDATE IC2!!!!! If you do not have version 1.115.208 or later, nothing will happen when you put something in the machine!!!!!

Quote from heheggg

Is there a clear guide on how to use the Armor Assembler? There seems no clear explanation on the wiki or the forums.

Not at the moment, I'll add one soon.
Basically, it uses the same recipes as before, just in the armor assembler instead of a crafting table. For example, to create a LapiJetpack, you combine either
(a) An ExoLappack and a Jetpack
(b) An ExoJetpack and a Lappack
or (c) A BatJetpack and a Lappack

To apply upgrades, you just put in the item you wish to upgrade and the upgrades.
I made it so that it doesn't matter which item goes in which slot.

There is information on the wiki about how the time/eu costs are calculated.
I'll add a formal detailed information page sometime soon, but for now, just let me know if there's anything else you don't understand.

Just released v1.13!

Changelog: (It's a big one)

First, some bug fixes:
-Fixed instant death when a QuantumSuit or NanoSuit with max energy tried to absorb damage
-Fixed QuantumSuit Bodyarmors not extinguishing fire on the player
-Fixed negative damage values on items with really high EU values
-Fixed many upgrades (particularly the Discharge) ignoring the upgraded charge of an item
-Fixed EU currently in items not transferring properly to items with increased charge

And some cool new features/quick changes:
-Jetpacks with the Flight Turbine installed now act like normal jetpacks when flight mode is disabled.
-Changed the Nano Bow's recipe to require Fibre Glass cable instead of HV Cable
-Added a config option to disable the crafting of Energy Mk2 and Mk3
-Added a config option to disable use of Overclockers and Energy Mk1 (I prefer to just disable crafting, so server Admins can still spawn/use them, but I didn't want to mess with IC2's recipes)
-Added a config option to change the maximum EU that an upgraded armor can have
-Added a config option to change the maximum Transfer Limit that an upgraded armor can have

And the big addition:
-Added the Armor Assembler, an awesome new way to combine and upgrade the Armors
-Changed all recipes to be in the Armor Assembler
-Removed the triple recipes (IE, jetpack + lappack + quantumsuit) due to the Armor Assembler only having 2 input slots
-Changed the tier upgrade recipes (IE, NanoBatpack in the Lappack recipe) due to the Armor Assembler only having 2 input slots
-Added Drill and Drill Bit, currently only used for the crafting of the Armor Assembler
-Hopefully made everything less OP. NOTE: The times are still flexible. I felt that they were pretty good, but I may change them in the future based on feedback.

NOTE: This requires IC2 v1.115.208-lf or later. This comes with the latest versions of most FTB Packs or can be downloaded here.

Quote from Speedro

If the nano bow is meant to shoot energy why not just change it to rifle or maybe a handgun? To me a bow seems out of place from the rest of IC's weapons.

If your trying to make it different from the mining laser then I'll offer my explanation for how the mining laser works: I believe that the mining laser is actually firing plasma instead of light, the plasma is being contained by a magnetic field that is generated by the redstone as the plasma is fired. By adjusting the intensity of the plasma and magnetic field the behavior of the bolt can be changed allowing all the interesting modes the mining laser has.

Either way just my two cents, and I'm loving this mod and would definitely call it my favorite IC2 addon.

Glad you're liking it

I understand what you're saying about a bow being slightly out of place... but I'm not sure I want it to be a gun either. I think a laser would fit in the best, but I also don't want it to be too similar to the IC2 laser... For now, it's a bow. There's a good chance I'll reconsider/change it sometime in the future though, and your suggestion will be considered when/if that happens

Quote from heheggg

Are you thinking about making the boost key available to the turbine engine similar to the gravisuit?

No, I'm actually specifically trying not to rip off gravisuite.

But that would be another reason to add a speed boost upgrade similar to what Saancreed mentioned above.

Quote from Saancreed

Still, night vision goggles won't prevent players from aggroing an Enderman by staring at him. Currently, I can fix vision by Ender Pouch with crapton of potions, but anti-sight-aggro upgrade will be more convenient than a vision-obscuring pumpkin.
Speed buff on leggings will be weaker then quantum sprint, but still useful due to increased backward movement speed, for example when you want to kite an army of zombies. If implemented, splitting it into two diffrent upgrades (one for 0 -> I, another for I -> II) might be good idea to make quantum leggings better choice than speed modules, that could be made expensive and pretty inefficient.

Good point, I may make an upgrade that simulates wearing a pumpkin on your head (if possible, there's a chance it's hardcoded and I can't replicate it without editing base classes. I'll try though).
And I understand what you're saying for the speed, so I'll reconsider.

Quote from Armigus

What I'm seeing are ways to empower IC2 power armor with the ability to recharge tools, etc. What I really want is an item that charges tools from the inventory and lets me use whatever armor I want while still charging my tools. Since the main IC2 team is against doing this internally this has to be done via an addon. The goal is something like this...

Power Harness [PBP,BAB,PBP, P = Carbon Plate, B = RE-Battery, A = Advanced Alloy]. 40K EU internal storage with a slot for a batpack of any kind. Capacities add. Works like the batpack but from your inventory or maybe hotbar. Can be charged like any batpack and remembers total capacity when (dis)charging.

Then you can upgrade it to this...

Distributor Harness [CAC,LHL,CAC, C = Glass Fibre Cable, L = Lapotron Crystal, H = Power Harness, A = Advanced Circuit]. 2M EU capacity with two batpack slots for more. Attempts to balance energy between all active EU-storage tools/armor pieces including itself, allowing up to 512 EU/t into or out of each item. Balance for each is based on percent of capacity and recalculated every second or two.

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That sounds like a really cool system, but I see no need for that in this mod. I have already developed this entire system that allows you to combine your armors, therefore allowing you to charge all of your tools from your back while still having another armor (or two) of your choice, so why would I need to make another item that does the same thing?

Also, it may seem simpler to you, but while it's not impossible, it's easier for me (since I have access to IC2's API) to do it the way I am doing it, and I like the way I am doing it.

Quote from Saancreed

Okay, a few more suggestions:
- "Vision Modulator" - helmet upgrade module, allows to switch Night Eye effect for EU/t, passively: looking at Endermen won't provoke them (like pumpkin).
- some kind of leggings upgrade, maybe "switchable Speed II buff for EU",
- Cloaking Module - to make it not remove player's armor, so other abilities are still usable and energy bars are visible.
- being able to craft Exosuit with Greg's Cloaking Device as equivalent of Cloaking Module + 10 Mk II ESUs.
- if people are freaking out because Nano Bow doesn't need arrows, make it need them and create new Quantum Bow, that will shoot with just energy. New arrow model would be nice.

This addon turns out to be pretty awesome.

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I was thinking of adding something similar to your vision idea, but then Ishaan1 reminded me that IC2 is almost done making a Night-vision Goggles armor and I will just add a combo armor for that when it is released.
I have plans for some leggings upgrades. I considered a speed boost, but that's one of the features of the Quantum Leggings and I didn't want to render IC2 armors useless; I just wanted to use them and make improved versions of them.
Removing the player's armor is kind of necessary without overriding base classes. Even if I made it not render the armor so that other players couldn't see you, the code for mobs checks if you have armor on regardless of what it renders as, so they would still be able to see you.
I have plans for cross mod compatibility for things like GregTech, Compact Solars, and Advanced Solar Panels. I wanted to get more of the basics of my mod established before I started that, but now that the Armor Assembler is almost done, I may start that soon.
I have plans to make a new arrow model. Just haven't gotten to it yet. The Nano Bow is theoretically shooting energy, it just doesn't look like it ATM. I did consider a Quantum Bow at one point, but the point of the Nano Bow was to match the Nano Saber and give a cheap electric ranged weapon, so unless I add a Quantum Saber too (which could be a possibility at some point) I'm just gonna stick with the Nano Bow for now.

Glad you're enjoying the mod

Quote from Saancreed

I have experienced that too. Also, flight cost could be made configurable.

And two more bugs I found:
- armor parts with high max capacity and low current EU sometimes get negative damage value and randomly disappear from inventory.
- applying an upgrade resets EU charge of an item back to its original max capacity. (Will probably be fixed/removed with addition of Armor Assembler)

EDIT: Overclockers Mk II pls. Because applying 30 stacks of overclockers is dumb (crafting them too).

I recently discovered that because the 100,000,000 is such a large number, it often glitches out. I'll look into that.
I added the jetpack functionality for the next version, but the flight shouldn't cost that much, so I'll look into that too.
The negative damage values are being caused by the same thing that's causing the instant death. Fixed it already while working on armor assembler.
Last thing is also already fixed with the armor assembler.
I'd be glad to add an Overclocker Mk II.

EDIT: I checked the code, and the flight should only be consuming 10 EU/t (which might be a bit cheap... but that's not the issue at hand). Where did you come up with 8,000?

EDIT 2: It may be because I forgot to change the code that consumes EU when flying to use the upgraded max charge amount... I'd still like to know where/when it consumed 8,000 eu/t.

Quote from subarct1c

Quick question/comment/feature request....I really love this mod and our server has been using it awhile now but I was wondering if it would be possible to modify the way the chest pieces work with upgrades in a future release to allow both the flight turbine and the jetpack functions to both continue to work. Basically when flight mode is enabled you get the "creative" flight, and when its not you get the basic function of the jetpack with and without the hover mode. Thanks for the mod, and keep up the great work.

Not the first time that's been requested, so I'd be happy to add that in the next version

Quote from Saancreed

I'm just dumb then, I didn't know there was a new IC2 version. Installing it (and the newest Forge) fixed those crashes, however armor doesn't respect 20000 EU charge speed limit - 16 stacks of overclockers got my chestplate to 103400.

Yeah, since the new IC2 is in open beta, they don't update that thing at the top that says current version. That's why i tried to make it known that this needed the newest version. Obviously i failed.

As for the charge speed limit... i'll look into that.

EDIT: I checked the code, it actually maxes out at 200,000.

I did find a divide by zero error in the process, so I fixed that.

I can't upload it just yet, because I'm in the middle of developing the Armor Assembler and I don't want to upload it half-finished. Hopefully, I'll be done tomorrow or Tuesday.

Quote from Saancreed

New version crashes my server on startup:

Code

[SEVERE] Encountered an unexpected exception LoaderException
cpw.mods.fml.common.LoaderException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ic2ca/common/item/armor/ItemArmorExoNano
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.LoadController.transition(LoadController.java:117)
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.loadMods(Loader.java:487)
	at cpw.mods.fml.server.FMLServerHandler.beginServerLoading(FMLServerHandler.java:86)
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.FMLCommonHandler.onServerStart(FMLCommonHandler.java:345)
	at ho.c(DedicatedServer.java:64)
	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:458)
	at fy.run(SourceFile:849)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ic2ca/common/item/armor/ItemArmorExoNano
	at ic2ca.ic2ca.registerItems(ic2ca.java:373)
	at ic2ca.ic2ca.load(ic2ca.java:281)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.FMLModContainer.handleModStateEvent(FMLModContainer.java:485)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventHandler.handleEvent(EventHandler.java:69)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.SynchronizedEventHandler.handleEvent(SynchronizedEventHandler.java:45)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus.dispatch(EventBus.java:317)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus.dispatchQueuedEvents(EventBus.java:300)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus.post(EventBus.java:268)
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.LoadController.propogateStateMessage(LoadController.java:140)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventHandler.handleEvent(EventHandler.java:69)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.SynchronizedEventHandler.handleEvent(SynchronizedEventHandler.java:45)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus.dispatch(EventBus.java:317)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus.dispatchQueuedEvents(EventBus.java:300)
	at com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus.post(EventBus.java:268)
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.LoadController.distributeStateMessage(LoadController.java:83)
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.loadMods(Loader.java:486)
	... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ic2ca.common.item.armor.ItemArmorExoNano
	at cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.RelaunchClassLoader.findClass(RelaunchClassLoader.java:185)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	... 32 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ic2ca/api/ItemArmorElectricUtility
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
	at cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.RelaunchClassLoader.findClass(RelaunchClassLoader.java:174)
	... 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ic2ca.api.ItemArmorElectricUtility
	at cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.RelaunchClassLoader.findClass(RelaunchClassLoader.java:89)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	... 38 more

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Singleplayer works "fine", but:
- storage upgrades seem to have no effect (NEI shows second EU tooltip info, but it doesn't increase with the first, and armor doesn't charge more then original capacity allowed)
- overclockers seem to have no effect (charge time is more or less the same as without them, tested with about 64 overclockers)
- applying too many overclockers (100?) crashes the game, with:

Code

java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
	at ic2ca.ic2ca.updateElectricDamageBars(ic2ca.java:824)
	at ic2ca.ic2ca.onCrafting(ic2ca.java:964)
	at cpw.mods.fml.common.registry.GameRegistry.onItemCrafted(GameRegistry.java:309)
	at sq.a(SlotCrafting.java:118)
	at rq.a(Container.java:235)
	at iv.a(NetServerHandler.java:908)
	at dc.a(SourceFile:31)
	at cf.b(MemoryConnection.java:80)
	at iv.d(NetServerHandler.java:136)
	at iw.b(NetworkListenThread.java:57)
	at bec.b(IntegratedServerListenThread.java:108)
	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.r(MinecraftServer.java:703)
	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.q(MinecraftServer.java:599)
	at bdz.q(IntegratedServer.java:123)
	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:497)
	at fy.run(SourceFile:849)

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Also, is there a cap on how many ESUs and overclockers can be applied?

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Update to the latest Ic2.

There is no cap to the number of upgrades that can be applied, but there is a max upgradeable transfer speed and EU. By that, I mean I'm not going to say "you can only have 100 upgrades" regardless of what type they are; there is a maximum max eu. You can apply as many upgrades as you want, but the max EU will never exceed 100,000,000 and the transfer speed will never exceed 20,000 (EDIT: It's actually 200,000).

And for future reference- if the latest update fails that miserably, you should probably assume that it's your fault. I would never release a version with something THAT broken. There are always plenty of bugs to be fixed, and crash reports for those are much appreciated as I need them to fix it, but if the server doesn't work at all (I test it on a server with friends for at least a few days before I upload) and the client is that glitchy (I test the client constantly), please read over the forum post and check for instructions like "make sure you update".

Just uploaded v1.12! Changelog:

Bug fix- fixed crash when quantum helmet tried to remove a potion effect
Reorganized pacakges

Added a config file with:
IDs
The max number of solar or static upgrades that can be applied
The order in which solar/static items will charge armors
The option to disable the crafting recipes for the upgrades

Added the ability to use IC2 energy storage upgrades to increase an item's EU by 10,000
Added the ability to use IC2 overclocker upgrades to increase an item's charging speed by 20
Added Energy Storage Upgrades Mk 2 and Mk 3 to increase an item's EU by 100,000 and 1,000,000, respectively.

NOTE! THIS REQUIRES IC2 1.115 OR LATER! YOU WILL CRASH AND/OR GET WEIRD GLITCHES IF YOU DON'T UPDATE!