Posts by MachineMuse

Quote from Zerrens

Really gotta thank you for such an awesome mod and community interaction.

I do have another interesting mod cross-compatibility suggestion though, this one being with forestry:
I've recently begun breeding bees for their products, trying to get to the (extra bees) Ruby bees to make chrome for my Gregtech needs, but in my journey I've been stung, poisoned, fried alive, burned, struck by lightning, blown up, and melted.
How about micro-fiber webbing for joint connections to protect against bee effects? Assuming Sengir hasn't hardcoded the Apiarist armor to be the only thing effective against bees, how feasible would this be?

assuming that, easyish. will go under 'environmental' along with hazmat (UE). Need to work on the gui a bit and get the scrolling window to work (and be obvious), otherwise it'll be a bit tough to fit them all in there.

As for the community interaction, I have to thank the IC2 forums for being supportive and having a modicum of intelligence. I'm really on the verge of not even checking MCF thread anymore because there are so many requests for features that are already there or on the todo list, 'bug reports' for things that have nothing to do with my mod, and terrible advice.

Quote from sondrex76

thank you for implement color on the tool
but something i have noticed is that the drop rate of items when you have explosion on the tool is modified after what i have in the config for CreeperCollateral-1.4.6-CoreMod. i realy dont like this becouse i have creepers drop rate to 100% (my friends want to have it there) and then the glove drops 100% of the items...emm i do not think this is how it should be maby you could make a config option for how many % of items that get destroyed in an explosion from the tool drops.
i realy hope you will read this and implement it so i dont need to get 100% of the items (i think thats like cheating)

I can't fix someone else's mod for you. Last time I tried to do that, I got yelled at. But, if you get that mod's creator to tell me what I need to do to mark my explosion as 'not a creeper', I will.

It is done! Along with the new mode-switching mechanic which will hopefully make it easier to add new functions to the tool currently it goes by sneak+scrollwheel; we shall see how useful that is..

Quote from AEtherchild

Oh.
My.

This... is beautiful. Amazing work! I especially like the fact you added GregTech recipes, a lot of other mod developers seem quite sore about his mod so I'm very pleased to see the compatibility here.

Quick note - on your Recipes page, a few of the images full-on refuse to load for me. These are all 4 recipes for the Tinker Table, the IC2 LV Capacitor recipe, and the UE MV and UE HV Capacitor recipes. Don't know if that's just me however.

I'm very much hoping for this to be added to a core FTB Mod Pack in the future, this mod by FAR deserves the popularity from it.

EDIT: While I'm here, may as well throw a suggestion out there. A "Thermal Detector" Helmet Module that allows you to see silhouettes of mobs through blocks.

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Thanks

Not sure if it can be done easily but I will add it to the list.

Quote from sondrex76

i realy like that i can change the balance and recepies and have so much freedom! ( i have edited about everything ) but i know one more config option that should be added, a config option that maby will let you chose if the energy requierment is the same all the time or if it when it comes to the maby 20 last % it will take 10 times more energy suddently, i think this would be extreamly cool and i hope you understood what i meant, but i have no idea if this is possible and if it is if it is an simple way to make config options for it.
keep up the good work !

It wouldn't be simple, but I will think about it. Thanks~

Quote from GamerX29

Great mod.

Iridium is 4 times heavier than titanium, as titanium weighs tzhelee? Diamond armor does not look balanced, energy shield is cheaper.Can make that diamond armor floated elements in the electrical, blast furnace at 3000 K, of 5 diamonds in diamond chunks of which it was made and would craft table?

And May is integrated into the helmet compass?

Maybe

Quote from Kenken244

I agree that it is odd that the advanced plating is as expensive and at the same tier as the forcefield. also, the basic plating is at a higher tier than the armor itself. I think the basic plating should be made steel and the advanced plating titanium.

Okay, this will be in the next build later today :V

Quote from Honeybadga

How about a zoom module for the headpiece? One that doesn't add too much weight...

install optifine basically

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When I install this mod and open my inventory, the section in NEI that comes after the tinker table is dark.

Anything I can do about that?
Using ModularPowersuits v0.2.0-42, IC2 v1.115.207, NEI 1.4.5.1

this is fixed in the dev versions

Quote from bdew

Umm i'm on #89 currently, which shows as the last build on jenkins (and matches the last commit on github) is there something i'm missing?

oh, crap, yeah, the scrolliness is not working yet so I just changed all the vision modules to 'special', but the thaumgoggles module is in a different file. ok, that should be fixed now

as for the 'backwards drops height' thing, yeah it still needs work :V

Quote from bdew

In the table, modifying a helm, the vision category is outside the blue area, and is getting covered by the salvage/install area. Also if you are going to split vision stuff into a separate category... why on earth isn't NightVISON under it?

About the flight control module ... Something feels really wrong about how forward and backward movement works, i'm having to hold my view at the horizon, which combined with the UI elements on the bottom of the screen makes makes me unable to see above what i'm actualy flying. Backwards just seems to drop height even when i'm looking at the horizon, so no idea what's up with that.

In general i feel that unless you are pressing space or z your Y level should stay the same and forward/back controls should only control that axxis just like left and right do.

I screwed up a bit, there are some new builds

Quote from Zerrens

May have found a bug with the new flight control module: With just a helmet and a chest on, the jetpack takes the energy it should, however when you activate the control module the jetpack stops taking energy and is essentially free flight. This was tested with only a chest with a HV cap. + jetpack and a helmet with NO energy storage device, but the control module installed.

On the one hand, that's soort of intentional since flight control is supposed to keep you level, which uses a lot less thrust than flying around.

On the other hand, I forgot to include the 'steadying' parts in the energy cost.

While tweaking that, I noticed some issues with how it handles 'braking', and on further inspection I'm really not sure how to solve them, so for now it only brakes horizontally when you have no directional buttons pressed at all. Initial tests suggest that this is just as usable and feels a bit more responsive for going up/down, but the drift might still annoy people. Well, too bad; I am going to at least pay lip service to physics here.

Build #85 should do it.

Added a 'flight control' module. It's not quite creative flight, but it will try to keep you steady in midair and stop you from hitting the ground at more than 1 m/s. Note that it drains energy pretty much constantly and will fly you along the ground - keybinding definitely recommended for those who choose this option.

(note: I put the down key on 'Z' instead of shift because shift-clicking blocks is frustrating.)

Quote from Epic Lulz

Erm I don't understand your reply. Does it mean that my OP/Creative-only module suggestion is denied?

Correct. But you can add them yourself via API.

Quote from Epic Lulz

A few more module ideas:

• EU HUD, Conductive Pipe MJ HUD and RE-Conduit-MJ HUD modules. I know you already have a EU-reader planned, but there was a mod before that added ability to see amount of current passing through a wire visually.
• Structure the Thaumic Wand Module (from To-Do list) to be like the pickaxe and diamond upgrades, the basic Wand of the Apprentice module holds 50 vis while you need the Energy-Thaumic Interaction Research to create a piece to upgrade the Wand of the Apprentice module to the Wand of the Adept module, and so on...
• Something for pyrotechnics (:p) like an electronic flint-and-steel and handheld firework dispensers.
• When IV drops are implemented, maybe an "artificial food substance" that increases your saturation level instead of feeding food to you? Additionally, antidotes.

True, adding research would make the thaumcraft interactions make more sense. -nod-

Quote from Epic Lulz

As for energy, would you implement a configuration to display which units of energy to display in the tooltip?

Possibly

Quote from madindehead

Absolutely love this mod.

Only found it yesterday, but it is amazing! Keep up the good work

Thanks! Glad you like it

Quote from bdew

+1, Running modular powersuits 0.2.1-67 with IC2 1.115.213-lf without issues so far.

Unrelated suggestion:

Using a keybing that's bound to a module that isn't currently on any equipped armor pieces should give some kind of an error, just spent 2 minutes figuring out why my nightvision stopped working... with my helmet in my backpack

Err, there is a small programmatic tradeoff involved there. I will try to come up with a solution. Thanks for the report.

Quote from YX33A

I just checked your to-do list and saw a Improbability Generator idea. And that got me thinking, "Madness Combat style would be cool, but even better would be Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy style". Then I thought, "why not both?" and decided to make a suggestion.

First off, the Infinite Improbability Warp Drive. It can teleport you places. The catch is that you have no real control where you go. Could be to your bed. Maybe it takes you to the end. Or a MystCraft Age(new or not). Or into Limbo with the Dimensional Doors mod. And it rarely takes you anywhere without causing Weird Shit(Patent Pending) to happen. Maybe everything near where you appear catches on fire. Or some sheep appear. Or maybe even it starts raining Squids, which explode(violently) when they hit the ground. Or pigs start to fly(and also explode after a bit). Or hell on earth happens(for about a minute, the area where you end up is a hell biome, and ghasts and pigmen can spawn) and after it ends, all dirt based blocks end up with some plantlife on them(as if a big bonemeal effect goes off on only grass, tilled soil gets some crops if nothing is planted yet, that purple mushroom grass stuff gets mushrooms on it, etc). Or maybe even all pumpkins in the area disappearify. And one can't even place them in the area without them vanishing after about 3 seconds(golems which use them get killed and turned into dropped blocks of what they were built out of).

The Madness Combat Infinite Improbability Generator is much like the Weird Shit from the Infinite Improbability Warp Drive, but Better* and follows you around, while giving you some buffs/debuffs now and then.(OMFG YOU CAN NOT KILL THE CLOWN. THE CLOWN KILLS YOU)

*According to some opinions. Not recommended for Children, Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant, the elderly, men with erectile dysfunction or without it, and basically everyone else. Extradimensional sentent Plushies stuffed with fire and candy who are completely batshit insane sold separately, but tend to show up when you install this device, causing confusion and fires as they explode all over the place. If any show up talking about their flammenwerfer guns, do yourself a favor and kill your self right away, preferably with 15 grams of antimatter, because otherwise, YOU ARE THE PLUSHIES.

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D:

Quote from Epic Lulz

A few more ideas, mainly for OPs. They have individual configuration options to allow only Creative/OP/TMI/NEI people to tinker/equip people

Zero Point Energy Module
You need 16 Infinity Multi-Purpose Gems (which is only obtainable from Creative/Op commands/TMI/NEI)
Provides Infinite Charge to all modules in that suit piece.

Weight Reduction Module
You need 16 Infinity Multi-Purpose Gems.
Is tinkerable, you can adjust the amount of weight reduced.

Invincibility Core
You need 16 Infinity Multi-Purpose Gems.
Is tinkerable, you can adjust the amount of damage negated.

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I think probably not. sorry. I did add an up to 2x walk speed boost to the sprint assist though (build 66) This is probably temporary until it finds a better place.

Quote from bdew

Yay!

I was playing with TC3 a bit and noticed the goggles of revealing module (tho i didn't get around making one yet), that's really cool
I was wondering, does it count for the vis cost reduction bonus, and could you add modules for the other TC armor pieces with that bonus?

no they don't and making them act as such is not a priority at the moment although depending on Azanor it might happen in the future.

Quote from bdew

I've looked at how forge determines the path... and my eyes are still bleeding.

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String basePath = ((File)(FMLInjectionData.data()[6])).getAbsolutePath().replace(File.separatorChar, '/').replace("/.", "");

There has to be a better way, but i have no idea

Edit: there is!

FML has Loader.getConfigDir()

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Awesome! Thanks so much. This should be fixed and in the latest experimental build

Quote from bdew

Saving keybinds doesn't seem to be working for me (win7, minecraft in a nondefault location)

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2013-02-02 02:01:19 [INFO] [STDERR] MMMPS - ERROR - CLIENT: No powersuits keybind file found.
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] MMMPS - ERROR - CLIENT: Problem writing out keyconfig
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at java.io.File.createNewFile(Unknown Source)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.machinemuse.powersuits.client.KeybindManager.writeOutKeybinds(KeybindManager.java:62)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.machinemuse.general.gui.KeyConfigGui.b(KeyConfigGui.java:41)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(Minecraft.java:625)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at aul.a(SourceFile:41)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at aul.n(SourceFile:153)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.machinemuse.general.gui.KeyConfigGui.n(KeyConfigGui.java:34)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at aul.m(SourceFile:115)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.l(Minecraft.java:1511)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.J(Minecraft.java:846)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:771)
2013-02-02 02:01:58 [INFO] [STDERR] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Edit: looking at your code, it tries to load/create the config file relative to the current working directory, which for me wasn't the actual minecraft folder.
I've changed my (private, unpublished) launcher script to chdir() into the minecraft folder before starting it and it seems to fixed the issue, weird that i never ran into issues with other mods about it

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That's roughly what I figured was happening, but how should I do it instead? D:

Quote from Zerrens

Sometimes the simplest of solutions is the best. I didn't even think of doing that honestly, not many no mods that I know of have as good of a key binding system as yours.
Also, thanks for explaining in your comments how things are working and why. I went over your source code to try to get a better understanding and expand my own knowledge and I'm learning just what forge and minecraft allow. My mod just had some simple explosive, torch, and aoe fire arrows when I was doing that

hehe, it definitely needs more comments and polish, but you're welcome for what's there so far

Quote from Zerrens

I had my suspicions about that. Personally I would still like to see it as a module for sneaky sneaky pvp/thievery and just emulate the transparent armor module too when it's on!
Something about mob senses being higher than a humans and can detect camouflage..

I can do that for the torso armor but the getArmorTextureFile() function only passes in the itemstack, so I can't get a player reference without some expensive computation. Sorry :s You'll have to install it separately and bind it to the same key (which does work btw :3)

Quote from Kenken244

Could you also let you switch between different overclocking configs with a keybind? I'd like to be able to slow down my tools and not jump crazy high all the time.

To not jump crazy high, simply tap the spacebar. But yes, there are some more control circuit options coming.

Okay, well, it was glitching out a bit and not turning off, so I've tweaked the values a bit.

As for the mob visibility thing, if that's the case then it's going to be a lot more in-depth and might be impossible without jarmods/overrides sadly

Quote from Zerrens

Much less crashy (100% actually).

The module is pretty adamant on messing with me. It eats 1kW/s when on just fine and none when off, and SAYS I'm invisible (stuck at 24s).. but I'm still pretty visible. (the invisibility potion works as normal, though)

I'm not actually even sure what invisibility potion is supposed to do. Is it purely cosmetic or are mobs supposed to ignore you?

Also, have you tried making a local dedicated server and testing it there? It seems to work for me when I launch the server separately and go 'multiplayer->localhost' but not when I go into single player

Quote from Zerrens

mind reading robot

Hence the username

New version up should be much better

As for the camo, it doesn't seem to display properly in single player It'll still give you the potion effect though. Bleh...

Quote from Zerrens

No sparkles in SSP, didn't test SMP yet.
That price sounds completely reasonable, as well.

The only question here is how would it work? Would it be toggled via keybind (default off), or be activated via keybind for a short period of time (tinkerable duration and 'speed threshold' for sprint speed before it overloads as well), then turn itself off after the set time? (constant energy drain when active, and/or a cooldown period for the burst version?)
High speed sprinting or high jumps might overload it, causing it to shut off.

Just thinking out loud, here.

Edit:
WOW YOU'RE FAST, GEEZE

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Hehe Mostly the same code, not hard to copy and paste and change the icon/description/name/potion ID. Anyway yeah it's by keybinds. It defaults to 'on' like everything else because I haven't fleshed out that system yet. I might have to make each module an individual class...would still be easy to extend would take a bit of refactoring to get them to work, but would probably be better than the current system... (also thinking out loud)