Full movement control while passenger on vanilla entity

[hiotewdew]

I have a flying mob that is supposed to grab on to an entity (ride the entity) and lift it upwards and drop it. I have the drop/lift fully set up but the only problem is the bird can't actually control movement while riding something. Is there something I can override to allow it to move while a passenger (and take the ridden entity with it)?

[Animefan8888]

  On 8/28/2018 at 11:05 PM, hiotewdew said:

I have a flying mob that is supposed to grab on to an entity (ride the entity) and lift it upwards and drop it. I have the drop/lift fully set up but the only problem is the bird can't actually control movement while riding something. Is there something I can override to allow it to move while a passenger (and take the ridden entity with it)?

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Switch to using the caught entitiy's velocity instead of the riding entity's.

[hiotewdew]

  On 8/28/2018 at 11:21 PM, Animefan8888 said:

Switch to using the caught entitiy's velocity instead of the riding entity's.

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Yes, but how?

[Animefan8888]

  On 8/28/2018 at 11:23 PM, hiotewdew said:

Yes, but how?

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Entity#getRidingEntity will return the entity that is being ridden.

[hiotewdew]

  On 8/28/2018 at 11:26 PM, Animefan8888 said:

Entity#getRidingEntity will return the entity that is being ridden.

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The velocity won't change on the grabber if it's riding something, so I can't apply its velocity

[Animefan8888]

  On 8/28/2018 at 11:28 PM, hiotewdew said:

The velocity won't change on the grabber if it's riding something, so I can't apply its velocity

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Entity Grabber

 

public void update() {

    if (isRiding()) {

        getRidingEntity().setVelocity(/** Apply correct velocity from AI. **/)

    } else {

        // Normal code.

    }

}

 

[hiotewdew]

  On 8/28/2018 at 11:32 PM, Animefan8888 said:

Entity Grabber

 

public void update() {

    if (isRiding()) {

        getRidingEntity().setVelocity(/** Apply correct velocity from AI. **/)

    } else {

        // Normal code.

    }

}

 

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Sorry, this won't work for me. However, I found a solution. Instead of riding the attacked entity, it sets the attacked to ride IT and then overrides the updatePassenger method and sets the position of the attacked to below it.

@Override
	public void updatePassenger(Entity passenger)
    {
        if (this.isPassenger(passenger))
        {
            float f1 = (float)((this.isDead ? 0.009999999776482582D : this.getMountedYOffset()) + passenger.getYOffset());
          
            passenger.setPosition(this.posX, this.posY - passenger.height - 0.05, this.posZ);
            this.applyOrientationToEntity(passenger);
        }
    }

 

[Cadiboo]

Could you also force the grabbed entity to ride the flying entity with a negative ridingYOffset?

[jabelar]

  On 8/28/2018 at 11:37 PM, hiotewdew said:

Sorry, this won't work for me. However, I found a solution. Instead of riding the attacked entity, it sets the attacked to ride IT

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Yeah, that is what I was going to respond and say -- logically the carried entity is "riding" the flying entity.