Transparent AE2

The mod renders items travelling inside AE2 networks as a visual layer. Items imported, exported, inserted, extracted or used as crafting inputs appear moving along the cable route. The real item transfer still happens instantly, and the existing AE2 transfer logic is left unchanged; the animation is only a visual effect that follows the route AE2 assigns between a machine and its controller.

Each game tick the server watches for finished AE2 item transfers, works out the controller routes once, and bundles matching transfers before sending them to players nearby. Both route calculation and rendering can be disabled, and each setting is toggled independently: the server can turn off transfer-path calculation entirely, and a client can turn off rendering.

The mod also shows fluid transfers, and it adds a reusable Cable Transparency Applicator item for turning ordinary cables into see-through versions, along with ready-made transparent smart dense covered cable items. Applied Energistics 2 is required. The mod runs on client and server, so both sides need it, and it is published for NeoForge only, across the 1.21.1 and 26.1.2 game versions, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, which is not open source.