I have a mob that uses the HumanoidMobRenderer. It is meant to look like another player.

public class VisitorMobRenderer extends HumanoidMobRenderer<VisitorMobEntity, PlayerModel<VisitorMobEntity>> {

I have basically no custom rendering code. Just some logic for loading custom skins.

https://github.com/bradsk88/Questown/blob/0d913c9bf06bb6b2de981717d2a38e182d9669ca/src/main/java/ca/bradj/questown/mobs/visitor/VisitorMobRenderer.java#L14

I've tried to call the "swing" method from the server side, which should publish a message to the client side. But I'm not seeing any animation.

((LivingEntity)mcExtra.entity()).swing(InteractionHand.MAIN_HAND);

https://github.com/bradsk88/Questown/blob/0770d0d161a92d69f0749832552671b781360a64/src/main/java/ca/bradj/questown/jobs/declarative/RealtimeWorldInteraction.java#L284

 

Any suggestions to get my mob's arm swinging?

Edited May 8, 20251 yr by bradsk88

Bumping this. I've tried to solve it a few times, but I can't find anything that works

Edited May 8, 20251 yr by bradsk88

I managed to do it by overriding the "doHurtTarget" method.

@Override

public boolean doHurtTarget(Entity target) {

    this.swing(InteractionHand.MAIN_HAND);

    return super.doHurtTarget(target);

}

Finally solved this after looking a bit closer at the `Monster` class.

I needed to override the `aiStep` method, adding a call to `updateSwingTime`. This makes `entity.swing()` trigger an animation.

    @Override
    public void aiStep() {
        this.updateSwingTime();
        super.aiStep();
    }

 

Edited May 8, 20251 yr by bradsk88