Carpenter's Blocks Not Rendered

[Mochnant]

I have noticed that Carpenter's Blocks (http://www.carpentersblocks.com/) and possibly ForgeMultipart blocks as well) are not rendered in Map Writer. Is it possible to add support for this?

[Mochnant]

Cross-posted to Mineshopper/carpentersblocks#208

[jeffreykog]

The cause of this is simple. Carpenters blocks renders every block not as a normal block renderer, but as a tile entity renderer (Like chests, signs, Beacon beams, End portals). Tile entity renderers are not rendered on the mapwriter maps. That would be difficult to do

[Mochnant]

Thanks for the info. That's unfortunate! It would be very useful to have this ability to show them, as they are essentially used as building blocks.

[Mochnant]

@jk-5 The Carpenter's Blocks mod author @Mineshopper says in the linked ticket that all the blocks (save one) do not use the tile entity renderer. Perhaps it will be an easier fix than anticipated.

[Mochnant]

Using the color override file, I was able to get them to display in 1 color only (rather than their true texture).

Is there a way to get the underlying texture to be the color, rather than a single default?

[Vectron]

i poked around a bit in the source and was able to fix this problem.
the only downside is that i had to redo the way anvil data is saved on harddisk. so if you upgrade to my version and then go back to the original one things will break.
if you want you can try my version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zmjh4eubhxqnwby/MapWriter-1.7.10-2.1.3.jar?dl=0

[Mochnant]

Thanks @Vectron, I'll try it! Any chance a pull request could be submitted?

[Vectron]

i will do a pull request, but i doubt it will be merged. the author hasnt been online for ages.

[Mochnant]

@Vectron: Thanks! Perhaps this is an opportunity to pass the torch on if @daveyliam has decided to pursue other interests?

[Vectron]

atm i wouldnt mind if @daveyliam gives me controll over the repo. i would hate to see this mod die