How does entity's hitbox and block's hitbox interact

[TheRPGAdventurer]

I have trouble understanding how the entity's hitbox and block's hitbox interact causing entity's

[jabelar]

Well, entities have both planned and unplanned movement. For planned movement, which is usually figured out in the entity AI, it uses a "navigator" to find a path through the blocks. The navigators basically finds a series of positions that the entity can move between where its collision box doesn't collide. Then there is unplanned movement like if you knock it back. I haven't looked at that code specifically, but typically in games it will (a) look for collision before moving the entity into a location (b) reset position to the previous one if it finds itself in a collision. All the collision boxes (block and entity) in Minecraft are rectangular, restricted in size and cannot rotate so it is really simple math to detect a collision.

 

Why are you asking? 

[TheRPGAdventurer]

2 minutes ago, jabelar said:

Why are you asking? 

I am trying to make a BlockPos custom method for a flying algorithim to my tameable dragon to detect it's altitude. I currently use world#getHeight but that causes issues because gethHeight finds the most uppermost solid block in the world, but the nether has a solid block roof above. I need a custom method which detects a solid block below and to do that I must understand how solid blocks interact with entities 

[TheRPGAdventurer]

18 hours ago, gummby8 said:

So you want to find how high your entity is from the nearest solid block directly below the entity?

 

				BlockPos blockPos = new BlockPos(this.posX, this.posY, this.posZ);
				while (!worldObj.getBlockState(blockPos).getBlock().getMaterial().blocksMovement()) {
					blockPos = blockPos.down();
				}

 

That will find the nearest solid block straight down. Then you can calculate the distance

Ok it worked, now I need to detect if it is liquid, lava is Liquid right?