MoparDan

If you can find a way to reduce/improve it, great! But....lets be honest here, The method that I was using them in was rather....abusive....to say the least (I believe the intended use of hollow carrages was for tubes/wires...not entire structures, lol). If you think about it, that structure used 486 hollow carrages ( (9 * 9) * 6 ), and thats not including the platform carrages that were also being used. I can not even remotely think of any structure that would properly use the hollow carrages in that high of a number.

Just to give an update on this.... The above structure was made in a single player world, and was laggy as stated. what I did as a test is I built the same "machine" but this time used the template carrages (9x9x9 structure full of template carrages except for one block in the center so I could set the pattern) instead of the hollow + frame carrages, and built it on a server, and no lag. So, it seems that either alot of hollow carrages, or hollow carrages used with multiparts (like the AE annilation planes) in which the textures of the multipart and the hollow carrages "glitch" through each other is the source of the gfx lag.NOTE: I can not stress this enough, the lag was not a tick lag from it moving, but a gfx/framerate dropout, even if the frames were standing still. So, in short, using your template carriages and AE (and enderIO for power/item xfer and WR-CBE for wireless sigs, and morph so I could fit in a one block space to set the pattern), I was able to make a true Omni-directional mining machine (able to mine in all six directions) with minimal/no lag compared to other mining machines made with moving/frame mods!

The lag only happens with the hollow carrages in this manner, and doesn't become apparent unless alot of them are set up in this manner. To help explain the pic above, what is happening is that an annilation plane and an AE2 cable are both inside the hollow carrage (being the annilation plane is a multipart, it will fit inside the hollow carrage, a VERY nice feature, lol). Due to the size of the annilation plane, and the size of the hollow carrage, the gfx of each "glitch" through each other, and results of the pic above. The frames are not moving in that pic, they are standing still. As long as the frames are not moving, nor the player, there is no lag, but as soon as either the player, or the frames, or both start moving, then the lag hits from the visual glitching of one item rendering on top of another. At least, I am assuming that is causing the lag. In any other instance/usage of the frames, there is no lag unless a large frame machine is made/moving, but that is to be expected. As a test, could try modeling the hollow carrages one pixel smaller, as so not to be a full block size if that makes sense, and test to see there are still similar lag issues. Also, this is probably a "rare case of a block/mod being used in an unusual manner causing unatended effects and should not be used in this manner" type of situation.

Just wanted to pop in and say thank you for continuing this wonderful mod and also to report a minor bug. The hollow carrages work wonderfully with AE2, but there is some clipping that causes some massive framerate drops. here is a pic to better explain what I am refering to.