Spawn entities in front of player

[Dank3yKang]

I am making an item that when used, lightning strikes down the direction the player is looking and at a distance.

Code I have so far:

import net.minecraft.core.BlockPos;
import net.minecraft.network.FriendlyByteBuf;
import net.minecraft.server.level.ServerLevel;
import net.minecraft.server.level.ServerPlayer;
import net.minecraft.world.entity.EntityType;
import net.minecraft.world.entity.MobSpawnType;
import net.minecraft.world.item.ItemStack;

import net.minecraftforge.network.NetworkEvent;

import java.util.function.Supplier;

public class CreateLightningC2SPacket {
    public CreateLightningC2SPacket() {

    }

    public CreateLightningC2SPacket(FriendlyByteBuf buf) {

    }

    public void toBytes(FriendlyByteBuf buf) {

    }

    public boolean handle(Supplier<NetworkEvent.Context> supplier) {
        NetworkEvent.Context context = supplier.get();
        context.enqueueWork(() -> {
            // HERE WE ARE ON THE SERVER!
            ServerPlayer player = context.getSender();
            ServerLevel level = player.getLevel();

            EntityType.LIGHTNING_BOLT.spawn(level, (ItemStack) null, null, new BlockPos(player.getX(), player.getY(), player.getZ()),
                    MobSpawnType.COMMAND, true, false);

        });
        return true;
    }
}
 

[ChampionAsh5357]

What's the question supposed to be?

[Dank3yKang]

lol forgot to add question, I don't know how to change the position of the lightning strike to be a number of blocks away from the player in the direction they are looking, so how would I go around doing that?

 

 

Edited January 20, 2023 by Dank3yKang

[warjort]

Quote

 EntityType.LIGHTNING_BOLT.spawn(level, (ItemStack) null, null, new BlockPos(player.getX(), player.getY(), player.getZ()),

Change the BlockPos to where you want it to spawn.

Example calculations can be found in vanilla code, e.g. GhastShootFireballGoal or Panda.afterSneeze()