[1.20.1] Do Stuff while bow is drawn

[Sinsei]

I'm creating a custom staff, that can be used like a bow, meaning i can use it and it should "load" the staff.

 

As far as i can see the interaction is pretty simple: activate the "draw" stage via overriding use and then when the mouse is released the "releaseUsing" and "useOnRelease" methods are called. 

 

What i want to achieve is between the activation and the release: I want to do stuff while it is drawn. For example i want to create particles and i want to stop the "drawn" stage in certain conditions.

Is something like this possible and if so, where can i look? I'm also happy with examples from other mods. (For example i think that mana and artifice has something like that with the beam spells, but that mod is not open source).

[dee12452]

Is `onUsingTick` available in the version of forge you’re using? If so, that’s the easy way to go about it.