Animation when Entity collides with Player

[LevelBlock]

Hi. I'm looking to display an animation when an entity collides with the Player, I'm using geckolib. I haven't find a properly way to implement this on the "event.getAnimatable()". Somebody can help with a tip?

 private <E extends Entity & IAnimatable> PlayState predicate(AnimationEvent<E> event) {

        LivingEntity livingEntity = event.getExtraDataOfType(LivingEntity.class).get(0);

        if (event.isMoving()) {
            event.getController().setAnimation(new AnimationBuilder().addAnimation("animation.walk", true));
            return PlayState.CONTINUE;
        }
        if (event.getAnimatable().horizontalCollision){
            event.getController().setAnimation(new AnimationBuilder().addAnimation("animation.attack", true));
            return PlayState.CONTINUE;
        }
        if(!event.isMoving())
            event.getController().setAnimation(new AnimationBuilder().addAnimation("animation.idle", true));
        return PlayState.CONTINUE;
    }

 

[warjort]

Entity.horizontalCollision is for colliding with blocks.

Minecraft doesn't really do entity/entity collision, except in special cases like item pickup. Those are not events with state stored in the entity, its a special process that uses one of the level.getEntities() search methods. Those won't be appropriate to call during rendering.

[LevelBlock]

4 hours ago, warjort said:

Entity.horizontalCollision is for colliding with blocks.

Minecraft doesn't really do entity/entity collision, except in special cases like item pickup. Those are not events with state stored in the entity, its a special process that uses one of the level.getEntities() search methods. Those won't be appropriate to call during rendering.

Thanks for the answer, so I should look for an EntityDataAccesor or try with another kind of event like distance between entities?

[warjort]

I am saying there is no data to access for entity/entity collisions, minecraft does not track it.

And doing an entity search during rendering will likely affect fps.

[warjort]

It looks like you really want to know when an entity is attacked from your code?

You might be able to do some tracking yourself with forge's LivingHurtEvent and looking at the DamageSource. Maybe storing the state using a Capability on the entity? 

Edited June 29, 2022 by warjort

[LevelBlock]

2 minutes ago, warjort said:

It looks like you really want to know when an entity is attacked from your code?

You might be able to do some tracking yourself with forge's LivingHurtEvent and looking at the DamageSource? Maybe storing the state using a Capability on the entity? 

I'm gonna try , thanks a lot.