Texture Generation Issues

[UndeadZeratul]

I'm looking to integrate poor versions of metallurgy ores into my modpack, but I can't seem to get them to work properly. I can't tell if it's because most of their ores don't follow the standard ore pattern, or what, but the ore block looks a bit off, and the nuggets all show up as black and purple squares. On top of that, the item name is messed up, such as a manganese nugget being called a copper nugget, while being registered under nuggetManganese correctly, and even having correct crafting recipes.

I will post some screenshots when I can (I'm currently on my phone), along with my configuration. I can say, though, that I am on your latest version, 1.4.4.

EDIT: Here are some screenshots I took to show the problem I'm having, as well as the relevant portion of my config.

Example 1: Metallurgy End and Nether Ores and their texture patterns.

Example 2: Ceruclase Nugget displays as Ignatius, while still BEING a Ceruclase nugget.

Example 3: Crafting recipe still works

Config Snippet:

    block_ignatius {
        S:baseBlock=nether.ore
        I:baseBlockMeta=0
        S:baseBlockTexture=metallurgy:nether/ignatius_ore
        I:burnTime=0
        S:dimBlackList=
        S:dimWhiteList=
        B:isDust=false
        S:modID=Metallurgy
        I:nuggetRenderType=0
        I:oreRenderType=1
        S:underlyingBlock=minecraft:netherrack
        I:veinHeight=0
        I:veinRate=0
        I:veinSize=0
    }

    block_ceruclase {
        S:baseBlock=nether.ore
        I:baseBlockMeta=5
        S:baseBlockTexture=metallurgy:nether/ceruclase_ore
        I:burnTime=0
        S:dimBlackList=
        S:dimWhiteList=
        B:isDust=false
        S:modID=Metallurgy
        I:nuggetRenderType=0
        I:oreRenderType=1
        S:underlyingBlock=minecraft:netherrack
        I:veinHeight=0
        I:veinRate=0
        I:veinSize=0
    }

[Xexanos]

thanks for the config and the screenshots. Your Assumption with the non standard ore patterns is correct. I basically use the patterns under https://github.com/Xexanos/PoorOres/tree/master/src/main/resources/assets/poorores/textures/blocks to combine the texture of the underlyingBlock with the baseBlockTexture. Did you try using different values for oreRenderType? If you did I might have to add some additional patterns to use.

For the issue with the wrong name i have got an idea, but need to test it a little bit.

regarding the problem with the textures: I'm currently trying to rework the system i use to color the nugget to enable the modpackmaker/player to give it a hex code for the RGB-color (while keeping the old code as a default)

[UndeadZeratul]

I'm fairly certain I tried them in the past (around version 1.3.3), as shown by our now out-of-date config, here. I had experimented with the alternate render types to see what they'd look like, but they either just didn't match up, or they were completely broken (Osmium is one of them, but IIRC, that's more along the lines of the same issue DenseOres had about mismatching texture resolutions, and I don't know what can really be done about it, and it's not the focus of this issue).

I figured the name was just a problem with defining the display name when you register the item, and it must not check the metadata of the block/item, because Ignatius is metadata 0 for Metallurgy:nether.ore, same with Copper for base.ore, Prometheum for fantasy.ore, etc.

A manual hex code would work, as I think that's what AOBD does for their custom items. Is the problem with the current system that it can't determine what hex code to use, and thus breaks when trying to render the icon, resulting in the purple/black box?

Thanks for the quick reply! If you need any more examples from me, let me know. Also, I realized after I got everything set up, but there's a few other ores that look off. Metallurgy splits up their ores into a few categories: base ores (same pattern as vanilla), utility, precious, fantasy, nether, and end (all of which use a different pattern than vanilla does). In example 1, I showed both end ores, a base ore, and 3 nether ores. The problem with the texture also applies to any utility ore, such as magnesium; any precious ore, such as silver; and any fantasy ore, such as adamantine.

[Xexanos]

OK, all the issues should be fixed now. You were right with the metadata part, but it is mostly because I did not add the names of most metallurgy ores to the .lang file. I'll probably do that at a later date to get rid of the annoying ore inside the name of the nuggets...
I'm uploading a new version to curseforge and just have to wait for them to approve it.
I added 5 new alpha sets for metallurgy. Could you test them and give me some feedback on the design? I noticed, that the texture of alduorite has an offset of one for some reason, but the other ores should work. (3 = end, 4 = fantasy, 5 = nether, 6 = precious, 7 = utility)
I had the same problem with osmium, when I was playing with it. my way to fix it (with denseOres and with poorOres) was to simply make a resource pack with just one file in it: a downsized (16x16) version of the osmium ore texture.

[UndeadZeratul]

Oh, cool! I'll give that a whirl when I get home after work and let you know.

[UndeadZeratul]

Here's what I've gotten so far:

The ore textures are working, even for Ceruclase, it seems.

The only issue I still notice, is for the Metallurgy Utility ores; they're dust icon seems to still be broken, and I think (going on intuition alone, I've not looked into this for sure) it's because you're looking for what the ore normally smelts into, and these ores don't smelt, they just drop their dusts. However, they can be pulverized into dusts (as expected).

That makes me wonder, should the dust ores just drop a single tiny dust? What if every ore had a tiny dust, so that processing them in pulverizers was possible? I know that's a bit off topic, and I can split this question off into it's own issue if you'd prefer, I'm just curious.

Other than that, it looks a lot better now that every ore is generating its texture correctly, and their nuggets are being colored correctly. Their tooltips seem to be referencing the right ores, too!

Thanks Xexanos! I look forward to what more you can improve upon with this.

[Xexanos]

Oh right. I didn't notice the textures were still off, but, yes, that is probably the case. It is the same Problem, the quartz from ae2 has (issue #14). As a workaround you could now use the manual color selector and add the recipe by hand (modtweaker etc...)

I like the idea of making processing in pulverizers etc. possible, but I currently have no Idea, how to do that^^ It would be cool, if you could add that as a Suggestion in a new Issue, so I don't forget to implement it, when i get the time.

[UndeadZeratul]

Sure! And yeah I'll try and set the hex manually, and adding in a minetweaker script is no problem.