Posted January 23, 201411 yr Hi everybody. I need to find what the player is looking at (block or entity). I know somewhere in the Minecraft source code it does it (eg. when the player mines something) but I don't know how or where. I was thinking something along the lines of using player.getLookVector().normalize() and extending it through a for loop until it hits something, but it seems like there must be a better way. Any help will be appreciated, especially the location of the code Minecraft uses to do the same thing.
January 24, 201411 yr Hi The information about what the player is currently looking at is stored in Minecraft.objectMouseOver. See Minecraft.clickMouse(). It is updated in EntityRenderer.getMouseOver. You have the right idea, actually the vanilla code does pretty much exactly that. -TGG
January 24, 201411 yr Also see EntityPlayer#getLookVec() and World#raycast_do_do() Apparently I'm a complete and utter jerk and come to this forum just like to make fun of people, be confrontational, and make your personal life miserable. If you think this is the case, JUST REPORT ME. Otherwise you're just going to get reported when you reply to my posts and point it out, because odds are, I was trying to be nice. Exception: If you do not understand Java, I WILL NOT HELP YOU and your thread will get locked. DO NOT PM ME WITH PROBLEMS. No help will be given.
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