well again as title says i want to know how to change a custom entity name with specific color. for example i have a dragon entity and i want his name to render in black name so what should i do? kindly guide me thanks.

I am quite sure that

"" + ChatFormatting.BLACK + name

should work.

private String name="FuriousDrag"+ChatFormatting.BLACK;

 

and this is how i call it in constructor of entity

 

this.setCustomNameTag(name);

 

seems to not work.

"" + ChatFormatting.BLACK + name

 

Try doing name = "" + ChatFormatting.BLACK + "FuriousDrag";

You know, sometimes the order matters.

ok thanks it worked!

I understand that putting the chat formatting before the text of the name means that part will be black, but what causes you to need the quotes before that? just curious

In some languages in some cases you need an empty string to get the compiler to understand that you want a string here (and not something else, like an integer, which can be implicitly converted to a string, but only does so if the object its being added with is already a string).  e.g.

 

string someString = 1; //no good

string someString = ""+1; //good

 

But ChatFormatting.BLACK is already a string, so there's no need.