Hello, I encountered a crash issue when using WaveyCapes together with shaders via the Oculus mod. When shaders are enabled, the game crashes upon entering a world or server. However, I found that disabling WaveyCapes allows me to enter the world/server normally with shaders enabled.

Additionally, I tested keeping WaveyCapes installed but entering the world with shaders off, and this works fine. After entering, I can enable shaders without any issues.

It seems like there’s an incompatibility between WaveyCapes and the Oculus mod during the world load phase when shaders are active.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install WaveyCapes and Oculus.
2. Enable shaders in the settings.
3. Try to join a world or server.
4. The game crashes during the loading process.

Expected behavior:
The game should load the world/server normally with shaders enabled.

Environment:

• Minecraft Version: 1.20.1
• Forge Version: 47.3.0
• WaveyCapes Version: 1.5.0
• Oculus Version: 1.8.0
• Shader Pack: ComplementaryReimagined r5.3

Crash Log: https://pastebin.com/JVF2QTwE

Thank you for looking into this issue!

Looks like the player gets rendered before it is initialized, that is probably an Oculus bug. I can try to add a fix for that crash, but be aware that Oculus is unsupported like Optifine (as it is an unofficial Forge port of Iris).

Tried adding a workaround, but instead noticed that this crash isn't even waveycapes. The crash happens inside

AbstractClientPlayer.handler$iin002$getCloakTextureLocation (a mixin into the getCloakTextureLocation method I'm calling)

because of a missing null check, but that is not in WaveyCapes code(I can catch the nullpointer, but the core issue is still there then). This is an outdated and unofficial fork of Iris, triggering a render too early, and then some other mod not doing a nullcheck when trying to add/modify the cape. Here is a list of all the mods that hook that class that is crashing (no clue which one of these does cape stuff):

emotecraft-arch.mixins.json:EmotePlayerMixin
animation_overhaul.mixins.json:AbstractClientPlayerEntityMixin
mixins.irons_spellbooks.json:AbstractClientPlayerMixin
mixins.vminus.json:client.AbstractClientPlayerMixin
bettercombat.mixins.json:client.AbstractClientPlayerEntityMixin
aether.mixins.json:client.AbstractClientPlayerMixin
immersive_aircraft.mixins.json:client.AbstractClientPlayerMixin
citadel.mixins.json:client.AbstractClientPlayerMixin
kubejs-common.mixins.json:AbstractClientPlayerMixin
mixins.create_sa.json:AbstractClientPlayerMixin
forge-badoptimizations.mixins.json:renderer.entity.MixinClientPlayer