[1.8] how to change entity name with color

[thvardhan]

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.

[Notunknown]

I am quite sure that

"" + ChatFormatting.BLACK + name

should work.

[thvardhan]

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

 

and this is how i call it in constructor of entity

 

this.setCustomNameTag(name);

 

seems to not work.

[BuddingDev]

"" + ChatFormatting.BLACK + name

 

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

You know, sometimes the order matters.

[thvardhan]

ok thanks it worked!

[AnZaNaMa]

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

[Draco18s]

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.