Posts by Pantheis

I just backported the 1.4.2 version of APM to Minecraft 1.3.2, IC2 1.107 beta and Forge 4.3.5.318. Those of you stuck on 1.3.2 now have the latest and greatest! Download is in the opening post.

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Just to clarify, the backported version is posted in the opening post directly under the version for 1.4.2, and named AdvancedPowerManagement-1.1.30-IC2_1.107.jar. The version named ChargingBench-1.0.9 is the old version and has been moved to the bottom of the opening post. It is not the current version.

It's up!

11/03/2012 1.1.30-IC2_1.108:
Major mod update! It is now called Advanced Power Management and includes the Charging Bench, Battery Station, Storage Monitor and Emitter blocks.
Updated codebase for Minecraft 1.4.2, MCP 7.19, Minecraft Forge 6.0.1.349, Industrial Craft 2 1.108 beta
Added Battery Station
Added Storage Monitor
Added Adjustable Emitter
Refactored code internally to reduce number of classes
APM will check for an existing ChargingBench.cfg configuration file on first load and will migrate settings over
APM will migrate existing Charging Benches and Emitters that have been placed over to the new internal structure.
Added in-place downgrade/upgrade kits for the Charging Bench
Added ability to disassemble the upgrade kit back to the component parts for the bench that was used to craft it. This means you can uncraft your HV bench and get the circuits, wires and MFSU back.
Changed to a localization supported structure for in-game text
Redesigned GUI for Charging Bench, the numbers now glow green and look to be in a display bar
General code cleanup
Added proper copyright headers to all source code files
Fixed item tooltip display on clients connected to dedicated servers for the item link cards
Added Side restrictions in code. Shouldn't really matter, but best to be safe so the server doesn't try to run client GUI code

Download is in the first post!

While a machine's GUI is closed, the server shouldn't be sending anything to the client about the state of processing going on inside, unless external texture changes are needed, say to show a progress bar. If that's the case, the server should only be sending a small update packet when there's been a change, or when a new player comes into range that doesn't have the correct data. There's specific functions built-in to handle this already and they work wonderfully when used right.

Things like sounds playing and such do require a packet to be sent to start or stop them, but if they are going to play on a loop, that should be coded into the client so the server doesn't have to keep sending a "Start/stop" packet.

EnergyNet calculations should not be running at all on the client. There is nothing visible that happens with the EnergyNet.

I really do hope IC2 goes open source at some point in the future because I'm sure the community will be able to help optimize and streamline it with great success while still letting the IC2 creators control the direction of the mod.

There are plenty of mods that use the BC32x API and are working just fine with it and Minecraft 1.4.2. My own unreleased mod is one of them. "Official" release for some things happens so far apart, you just have to either not do your addon mod, or just roll with it and release it as a beta.

I can't wait to get my hands on a 1.4.2 release of this mod. This and the advanced machines original 1.6b version addons are the only things keeping me from moving my server over to 1.4.2.

If by "dev team" you mean the two people working on this (and a couple others that are completely unreleased so far) then yes, we have a dev team. Tallinu and myself code things together.

Quote from Legamir

So you wait for the 1.108 final?
No chance you can release a beta? Missing this awesome mod on my 1.4.2 server

Quote from matejdro

Do you need more beta testers?

We aren't waiting for a final 1.108 build before releasing, so don't worry about that. We have had a port working for 1.4.2 for about a week, but decided to hold back on a release until we rolled in the new features we were working on so we didn't do a back to back release. The new features are almost ready for release and then we'll post up a beta for 1.4.2 / IC2 1.108. I think we're looking at an ETA for a 1.4.2 release of this weekend.

Just a quick post to update everybody on the status of updating Charging Bench to Minecraft 1.4.2 / IC2 1.108.

It's done.

We're waiting on final testing to take place over the weekend but initial quick testing shows everything is working, including all of the exciting new features coming with the update.

As IC2 1.108 is currently in beta, we will retest this against the final release of IC2 once it goes live to verify everything still works.

I can confirm the cable bug with Forge 6.0.1.332. I haven't been able to get the Forge Jenkins site up to grab anything newer.

Quote from Ook

already tried it with logistics, didn't work. the advanced extractor just pulled out the partially charged crystal. for 1.3.2 there's basically no way of extracting things based on damage value.
meh.. guess it'll wait until 1.4 when mystcraft shows up as a mods folder mod.

The charging bench should be moving only fully charged items to the output slot, so the problem I see it is that you don't have something to place the charged items into to discharge them that allows for automation to know when it's done discharging them, right? If so, Tallinu and I are working on something for the next update that I think you'll love!

Quote from zccool4718

You need to make it so it will interact with pipes. Until you do, it wont take off like you hope it will.

Right now I can't get any pipe to interact with it.

This is actually an issue with Buildcraft and is fixed in a pull request that was merged in after BC 3.2.0pre7 was released.
https://github.com/SirSengir/BuildCraft/pull/293[/quote]

The BuildCraft 3.2.0pre9 release should connect to the Charging Bench just fine. Tallinu is testing this right now to confirm it works with that specific release of Buildcraft. That said, every BC version we've been building from source has worked fine after that commit.

For reference, connections made follow sided restrictions as follows:

Quote from github readme

The Charging Bench's input, output and power slots are exposed to pipes, tubes, and other
devices. Input is on top, output is on bottom and the power slot is from all sides. While the
GUI restricts items placed into each of the slots to appropriate types there is no such
restriction for pipe/tube access. It is up to the player to design their systems so that the
wrong types of items don't get tossed onto the bench. But not to worry, there are no negative
consequences to inserting incorrect items, aside from temporarily clogging up the slot; the
bench simply will not do anything with items that it can't process.

Valid electrical items placed into the charging bench via tubes will automatically be moved
from the input slot to an available charging slot, then moved to the output slot once fully
charged. In this way, you can easily automate recharging of items!

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Just a quick update regarding Minecraft 1.4.

We will be holding off on any additional releases of Charging Bench for Minecraft 1.3.2. Our next release will be for Minecraft 1.4 and whatever version of Forge/IC2 is available and stable for it. We have new additional features planned for the next release based on the suggestions we've received and I'm very excited about them! Stay tuned!

Quote from Darwithe

One suggestion I'd like to make is an upgrade path for MV bench to HV bench. (Even better would be if you could implement an in-place upgrade kit ala Iron Chests)
Recipe could easily just be the MFSU recipe with MFE substituted with the MV bench.

-Edited: Actually just reversal recipes to convert back to storage block would work too, and might be handy in a few extra instances.

I love this suggestion. Tallinu and I will discuss the issues and figure out if we want to do this and if so, how best to do it.

Thanks!

Quote from SteveofDoom

Can you un-limit the Tier III for the benches so i can charge Tier IV stuff from Greg-Tech addon?

In my testing, I was able to charge the Gravichest plate in the HV bench without any issues. It happily sucked up all 10 million EU in it in about 20-25 seconds with no overclockers installed. Quite nice!

What item are you specifically having issues charging?

Yea, I had to move the change log to a github wiki because I wasn't smart when I put the initial post up and didn't do a couple of replies right away. The first post got too long and I couldn't put all of the info into it that I wanted.

Actually, the redstone disabling EU intake is a documented feature in the latest update.

Quote from heatheriac

So I'm using pretty much all the latest:
MC 1.3.2
FML: 3.1.35.394
Forge 4.2.5.303
IC2 1.107.35
Charge Bench 1.0.9-IC2_1.106

And built a HV bench wired into an MV power grid with fiber cable. A cable coming into the bottom of the bench wouldn't charge (gui stuck at 0 and no items charging) and a cable coming from underneath, one block over (so that it right angle's directly into the side of the bench) had the same problem. I'm having to have a completely straight cable for one block coming into the side of the table for it to take a charge. Has anyone else seen this?

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We have not seen this yet, but I"ll take a look and see if I can duplicate it. Do you get any errors in your console?

Quote from fabricator77

Actually the IC2 redistribution terms were recently changed.
[NEW] IC² Policy regarding ModPacks / Redistribution. Would be an idea to update the readme files included in this mod to reflect that.

I saw the new policy, but my understanding was that it applied to the main IC2 download, not addons for IC2. Nowhere in that new policy regarding modpacks for IC2 does it mention addons for IC2, just the main IC2 download, ((in any combination with other files or mods) seems to indicate that other files may be included in the ModPack, and that IC2 can be included along side other mods without restriction as to which ones) and this has not been updated either. This leads me to believe that they are okay with IC2 being included in ModPacks under the conditions spelled out above, but they still want addons that are solely for IC2 to be distributed through their forums.

If an IC2 dev tells me I'm wrong on my understanding of their policies, I'll be happy to correct the readme. Until then, as I said in the readme, I don't have a problem with modpacks for this mod as long as the person gets permission from the IC2 devs.

Quote from pcmaster160

I'd love if you added text somewhere on the gui that said the charge rate (based off the overclockers used).

Also from what i understand in the highest tier bench a transformer upgrade doesn't do anything?

The charge rate is item specific though, so we can't just put it on the base GUI. We're working on tooltips so you'll see the charge rate of an item, adjusted for overclockers, when you mouse over it. We don't know if we can do that without disrupting the awesome tooltips that NEI provides though. It's a work in progress.

Quote from ZephireNZ

I've got a Charging Bench setup, but it has no power coming through it whatsoever. It's ~3-4 blocks away from a BatBox, and as I said, is not connected at all to any powersource, as far as I know. Yet for some reason it will start to drain power from the BatBox. This happened with both LV and MV charging tables. The table has no items in it whatsoever, and if I move it a block or two away, then it stops charging.

There was no crash, no errors, so sadly no log to help.

EDIT: Note that as soon as I connect the BatBox to the Charging Bench, then disconnect shortly after, it keeps on charging still.

The issue here isn't with the Charging Bench, but with the IC2 energy net. There is a ghost bug in the Energy Network where cables and some other items don't invalidate when you remove them. It's highly annoying, and fixed in the beta and newer releases. Our charging bench properly invalidates when removed. The issue is with the cables. If you are playing on a server, restarting the server fixes it. So does leaving the area long enough for the chunk to unload, usually. If you're playing single player, I don't know.

Quote from hatecreeper

Im having a problem. I am playing on my own hamachi server with this addon and a bunch of other mods and a few ppl (im sure there are much more errors somewhere...)
but heres my problem:
we cant use any Charging benches. i mean when they are 'powered' we tested it a lot times but it wont work, we dont get a gui interface and the block it selfes also never changes (i mean the texture)
but we can place the bench somewhere on a solid block and we get an interface. when we power it then it wont work again^^
we have the newest version of the addon with newest version of ic for 1.3.2
i have uploaded a little video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4huktEjcgQ
i know that i didnt show much on the vid but its cause i was in my survival world and had not enough recoourses there
hope u can help me
im from austria so dont hate me cause of my grammar or something and if im doing something rly wrong and it isnt a bug so pls tell me this too, we are very new to this addon ..

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I'm not really sure what could be causing the problems you are experiencing. When you say "powered", do you mean hooked up to a IC2 EU energy source or powered as in "powered by redstone", such as a lever or redstone torch?

Also, the video you uploaded is marked private and I can't view it. What specific version of Forge and IC2 are you using please? You may want to recreate a video showing exactly what steps you take to recreate the issue, showing the actual issue and showing whatever you mean by placing it on a solid block and then the GUI works. That way, we can figure out together what's happening and if it is a bug on our side, maybe track down what's going on.

Quote from Zinabas

This one would probably be a better base line for 5 chambers then. You would need 2 HV transformers feeding into HV cable just to not blow something up.

Why would you need two HV transformers? It's only 440 EU/T output. That's under the defined HV value of 512 EU/T.