Visual issues with Connectible Chains

[Fyoncle]

On Fabric 1.20.1 if Entity Culling is installed alongside Connectible Chains the chains and leads get invisible over time in long standing gameplays and rare cases

legoatoom/ConnectibleChains#89 (comment)

It is not always and it also makes them disappear depending on some kind of distance so when you move in between a block they just get invisible, using the blacklist that was added with recent backports of Entity Culling fixes that issue if Connectible Chains content is blacklisted, they all work perfectly fine then.

The developer told me to report it here so maybe you can do something about it on your end!

[tr7zw]

Uhh it depends. If they are clientside entities then yes, they need to be whitelisted into the default list. Otherwise, it's an issue with their culling box not being setup properly. Distance plays no role here, as at 64(?) blocks distance, entityculling just starts ignoring the entity.

[Fyoncle]

I am talking about like there is connected chain in front of you 20 blocks away for example, and when you move between the 20 and 21th block they just get invisible for some reason, blacklist also eliminates that

[tr7zw]

I can test, but thats not entity culling most likely, or something else is going wrong. Distance only changes if it gets culled at all or not.

[tr7zw]

Yea as expected, only the poles are entities and the culling box doesnt seem to be overwritten. thats why it culls the entire thing once both ends are obscured.

[tr7zw]

Ok even can get it to hide in weird angles. So my best guess is, that the culling box of these ropes is weird. I'll add them to the default config next update so they are ignored, but this should be something they can also fix on their end.

[Fyoncle]

Ok even can get it to hide in weird angles. So my best guess is, that the culling box of these ropes is weird. I'll add them to the default config next update so they are ignored, but this should be something they can also fix on their end.

Do you advice me to enable them back in the Entity Culling config after you do this? I'm kinda scared about it lol

[tr7zw]

Theres no harm in having them skipped in entityculling, it's just like not having entityculling in regard to them. Gonna check with 1.21.10 no, as there I have better debug tools for the culling.

[tr7zw]

Ok, the first one you place seems to have different properties than the second one. The second part of the chain stops rendering as soon as it's offscreen. I think the first chain pole is actually rendering the entire thing and just has culling disabled? Not sure why entityculling is not picking that up, will have to dig into that a bit. Still would be better, if the AABB just was the full chain area.

[Fyoncle]

Ok, the first one you place seems to have different properties than the second one. The second part of the chain stops rendering as soon as it's offscreen. I think the first chain pole is actually rendering the entire thing and just has culling disabled? Not sure why entityculling is not picking that up, will have to dig into that a bit. Still would be better, if the AABB just was the full chain area.

That's interesting