Spiders invisible until player is a few blocks away from them

[Foxxin1104]

Describe the bug

I've ruled out this mod being the issue as uninstalling it removed the issue and reinstalling it reimplemented the issue.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open any Minecraft world
2. Spawn a spider some distance away with the "summon" command or allow one to spawn naturally
3. The spider is not visible until you're very close to it, but it does emit the normal sound effects.

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Expected behavior

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Additional context

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[Tschipcraft]

Thank you for the report!
Spiders are handled differently due to their emissive eyes (see #25), but they should not desync like this.
Could you please provide your latest Minecraft log file (e.g. using mclo.gs) and a screenshot of your settings menu (accessible with the command /function spawnanimations:settings)

[Foxxin1104]

https://mclo.gs/cCaiEWK

[Foxxin1104]

Hey, so sorry for all this trouble, after doing some more testing on my own I found it was an issue with a culling mod I had installed. I think I didn't think about it because it only happened with spiders. It was the Entity Culling mod by tr7zw.

[Tschipcraft]

No worries, thanks for letting me know! Glad it's working now

[eugenslp]

I still have this issue - spiders are invisible until they attack.
I do have EntityCulling 1.10.1 installed, which is part of the FO modpack.

So is there any solution besides either disabling one or the other (right now, I am disabling spawn animations, because performance is more important than visuals to me)?

[Tschipcraft]

I haven't actually tried to reproduce this issue; I just assumed it had been fixed in an entity culling update. I'll take a closer look

[Foxxin1104]

In the settings for entity culling you can set specific entities to cull or not iirc, you can just get rid of all types of spiders. I'm running on a decade old mini PC and the difference in performance wasn't noticeable at all, if there even was one.
Not sure if gou can access the mod settings normally but I use a mod list mod for that.

[Tschipcraft]

Alternatively, disabling the "Hide Emissive Mob Layers" option in Spawn Animations will probably also work.
I currently can't reproduce this, it works fine on my install with just Spawn Animations + Entity Culling (Fabric 26.1)