beam is now rendered from farther away, improved tether texture, renamed some more renderer vars to be more clear

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/client/renderer/TetherRenderer.java b/src/main/java/client/renderer/TetherRenderer.java
index 6484da7cef..7e69122846 100644
--- a/src/main/java/client/renderer/TetherRenderer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/client/renderer/TetherRenderer.java
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import net.minecraft.client.renderer.OpenGlHelper;
 import net.minecraft.client.renderer.Tessellator;
 import net.minecraft.client.renderer.tileentity.TileEntitySpecialRenderer;
 import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
-import net.minecraft.util.MathHelper;
 import net.minecraft.util.ResourceLocation;
 import org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11;
 
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@ public class TetherRenderer extends TileEntitySpecialRenderer {
     private static final ResourceLocation tetherBeamTexture = new ResourceLocation(KekzCore.MODID, "textures/effects/Tether_beam.png");
 
     public void renderTileEntityAt(TE_SpaceElevatorTether teTether, double x, double y, double z, float partialTick) {
-        float sthBeamLength = 1.0F; // 0.1F is about 30 or so blocks?
+        float beamLengthScale = 1.0F; // [0.0F, 1.0F] -> linear scale from 0 to 256
         GL11.glAlphaFunc(GL11.GL_GREATER, 0.1F);
 
         // Get Tessellator instance
@@ -43,28 +42,28 @@ public class TetherRenderer extends TileEntitySpecialRenderer {
         double d_rot6 = 0.5D + Math.sin(3.9269908169872414D) * halfBeamWidth;
         double d_rot7 = 0.5D + Math.cos(5.497787143782138D) * halfBeamWidth;
         double d_rot8 = 0.5D + Math.sin(5.497787143782138D) * halfBeamWidth; // ...until here
-        double d23 = 256.0F * sthBeamLength;
+        double height = 256.0F * beamLengthScale;
         double uv_x1 = 0.0D;
         double uv_x2 = 1.0D;
         double uv_y1 = -1.0D; // This makes the beam stream upwards if you add a time sensitive number to it
-        double uv_y2 = (double)(256.0F * sthBeamLength) * (0.5D / halfBeamWidth) + uv_y1;
+        double uv_y2 = (double)(256.0F * beamLengthScale) * (0.5D / halfBeamWidth) + uv_y1;
         // Construct mesh with texture
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot1, y + d23, z + d_rot2, uv_x2, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot1, y + height, z + d_rot2, uv_x2, uv_y2);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot1, y, z + d_rot2, uv_x2, uv_y1);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot3, y, z + d_rot4, uv_x1, uv_y1);
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot3, y + d23, z + d_rot4, uv_x1, uv_y2);
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot7, y + d23, z + d_rot8, uv_x2, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot3, y + height, z + d_rot4, uv_x1, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot7, y + height, z + d_rot8, uv_x2, uv_y2);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot7, y, z + d_rot8, uv_x2, uv_y1);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot5, y, z + d_rot6, uv_x1, uv_y1);
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot5, y + d23, z + d_rot6, uv_x1, uv_y2);
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot3, y + d23, z + d_rot4, uv_x2, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot5, y + height, z + d_rot6, uv_x1, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot3, y + height, z + d_rot4, uv_x2, uv_y2);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot3, y, z + d_rot4, uv_x2, uv_y1);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot7, y, z + d_rot8, uv_x1, uv_y1);
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot7, y + d23, z + d_rot8, uv_x1, uv_y2);
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot5, y + d23, z + d_rot6, uv_x2, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot7, y + height, z + d_rot8, uv_x1, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot5, y + height, z + d_rot6, uv_x2, uv_y2);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot5, y, z + d_rot6, uv_x2, uv_y1);
         tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot1, y, z + d_rot2, uv_x1, uv_y1);
-        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot1, y + d23, z + d_rot2, uv_x1, uv_y2);
+        tessellator.addVertexWithUV(x + d_rot1, y + height, z + d_rot2, uv_x1, uv_y2);
         // Draw!
         tessellator.draw();