How to check if a custom mob is attacking a player

[Discult]

So i want to do a certain animation whenever my mob is attacking someone i am wanting to know what it is i need to call to check if the mob is attacking someone

 

 

 

also how does the SharedMonsterAttrib  attack speed work.

[jabelar]

Well there are some methods related to attacking in the entity, but those are for dealing the damage and only happen on the exact tick of the attack (which also might be too late for the animation to start). Animations normally progress over several ticks. I think it might make sense to trigger it using the AI classes for your custom entity. However, the AI runs on the server (I'm pretty sure) and not the client where you want the animations.

 

I guess I would probably have the AI trigger it. If you look at the EntityAIAttackMelee class you can see what I mean. In that class, in the update() method the entity will try to close the distance to the target and then it runs the checkAndPerformAttack() method. In that method, if the distance is close enough it will perform the attack which includes the vanilla swingArm() method for the animation which updates the progress of the animation and also sends a packet to the client tracking system.

[Discult]

  On 10/21/2018 at 6:48 PM, jabelar said:

Well there are some methods related to attacking in the entity, but those are for dealing the damage and only happen on the exact tick of the attack (which also might be too late for the animation to start). Animations normally progress over several ticks. I think it might make sense to trigger it using the AI classes for your custom entity. However, the AI runs on the server (I'm pretty sure) and not the client where you want the animations.

 

I guess I would probably have the AI trigger it. If you look at the EntityAIAttackMelee class you can see what I mean. In that class, in the update() method the entity will try to close the distance to the target and then it runs the checkAndPerformAttack() method. In that method, if the distance is close enough it will perform the attack which includes the vanilla swingArm() method for the animation which updates the progress of the animation and also sends a packet to the client tracking system.

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You know how the attack speed works?

Edited October 21, 2018 by Discult

[Animefan8888]

  On 10/21/2018 at 7:05 PM, Discult said:

You know how the attack speed works? 

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I think that only affects players, but I am not sure. Seeing as how searching the whole repository I found nothing about SharedMonsterAttributes.ATTACK_SPEED in any AI or entity class that was not EntityPlayer.

[Discult]

  On 10/21/2018 at 6:48 PM, jabelar said:

Well there are some methods related to attacking in the entity, but those are for dealing the damage and only happen on the exact tick of the attack (which also might be too late for the animation to start). Animations normally progress over several ticks. I think it might make sense to trigger it using the AI classes for your custom entity. However, the AI runs on the server (I'm pretty sure) and not the client where you want the animations.

 

I guess I would probably have the AI trigger it. If you look at the EntityAIAttackMelee class you can see what I mean. In that class, in the update() method the entity will try to close the distance to the target and then it runs the checkAndPerformAttack() method. In that method, if the distance is close enough it will perform the attack which includes the vanilla swingArm() method for the animation which updates the progress of the animation and also sends a packet to the client tracking system.

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I have been trying to figure out how to call it from my model class(where the animations is set) i tried doing like entity.getAction or something but i cant find anything. Do you have anymore information that could help me.

[Cadiboo]

Trigger it from you entities AI task

  On 10/21/2018 at 6:48 PM, jabelar said:

If you look at the EntityAIAttackMelee class you can see what I mean. In that class, in the update() method the entity will try to close the distance to the target and then it runs the checkAndPerformAttack() method. In that method, if the distance is close enough it will perform the attack which includes the vanilla swingArm() method for the animation which updates the progress of the animation and also sends a packet to the client tracking system.

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Do your attack logic on the server, then call swingArm (or your own similar method) to fire the animation