Vanilla entity and player collision detection

[DocBrian]

I can easily detect collisions with other entities in my custom entities, but I'm trying to detect them in vanilla entities.  Since there's no EntityCollision event, I've heard of people polling for collisions via player update events or entityLiving update events, but so far I'm not seeing how I'd go about grabbing that info.  I have a pretty decent understanding of Java and the Minecraft API, so I don't need a lot of details on how to code it; I just need someone to point me in the right direction.  I'm looking for entity/entity collisions and entity/player collisions.

 

By the way, I'd like to make this work with both 1.7 and 1.12.  Would it require similar or different techniques for each version?

 

Thanks in advance!

[DocBrian]

By the way, the way I'm currently trying is Minecraft.getMinecraft().theWorld.getEntitiesWithinAABBExcludingEntity() and setting the AABB to the bounding box of the entity and excluding itself.  Seems to work most of the time, but not always.

 

Is there a better way?

[Cadiboo]

  On 11/9/2018 at 4:42 PM, DocBrian said:

Minecraft.getMinecraft().theWorld.getEntitiesWithinAABBExcludingEntity() and setting the AABB to the bounding box of the entity and excluding itself.  Seems to work most of the time, but not always.

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You could try interpolating the bounding boxes based on time, this might not work very well though.

  On 11/9/2018 at 4:29 PM, DocBrian said:

1.7

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Sorry we don't support 1.7 on this forum anymore due to its age (4+ years old). We simply don't know how to help you anymore.

I think theres an onEntityCollideWithEntity method or something that you can override?

[Laike_Endaril]

  On 11/9/2018 at 4:42 PM, DocBrian said:

I'm currently trying is Minecraft.getMinecraft().theWorld.getEntitiesWithinAABBExcludingEntity() and setting the AABB to the bounding box of the entity and excluding itself.  Seems to work most of the time, but not always.

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One reason that it may not always work is that I'm guessing the method only looks for entities that have their origin point within that range.  Ie. something with a large bounding box (like the ender dragon) could have its origin point (the point referred to by its posX, etc) outside your entity's bounding box, but still have a (large) part of its own bounding box overlapping that of your entity.

 

This is all assuming the method you posted doesn't account for entity bounding boxes when you give it a range.

[V0idWa1k3r]

  On 11/10/2018 at 6:08 AM, Laike_Endaril said:

One reason that it may not always work is that I'm guessing the method only looks for entities that have their origin point within that range

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World#getEntitiesWithinAABBExcludingEntity(or rather Chunk#getEntitiesWithinAABBForEntity) iterates all entities and checks whether their bounding boxes intersect with the passed one.