[1.11.2] Spawn Custom Entity in world from subscribe event

[MSpace-Dev]

Hey all,

 

I am trying to spawn one of my entities in the world when a player right clicks on a creeper (for now)

 

	@SubscribeEvent
	public void interactEntity(PlayerInteractEvent.EntityInteract event)
	{
		if(event.getTarget().getClass().equals(EntityCreeper.class))
		{
          		Utils.getlogger.info("Creeper clicked");
			event.getWorld().spawnEntity(new EntitySpiritCreeper(event.getWorld()));
		}
	}

 

Note, the message does get logged. So the check up to the point of spawning code does work.

Nothing is spawning. However, I feel like I should be able to enter more parameters, like location and such. Thanks in advance.

Edited June 30, 2019 by MSpace-Dev

[TheUnnamed]

You need to set location and angles of the entity. You can use the setLocationAndAngles method for that, from the Entity class.

        EntityModMob mob = new EntityModMob(event.getWorld());
        mob.setLocationAndAngles(DESIRED POSITION AND ROTATION GOES HERE);
        event.getWorld().spawnEntity(mob);

 

Edited June 30, 2019 by TheUnnamed

[MSpace-Dev]

Thanks, worked perfectly. However, I used setRotationAndPosition() instead.

For interest sake: What's the difference? They look the same, so I assume it's just a refactor

[MSpace-Dev]

Actually, still having an issue. Since the position of the target only is returned as an int, and not a float. The entity spawns aligned to the grid, rather at the exact location. Also, the rotation of the entity is not applied.

 

EntitySpiritCreeper creeper = new EntitySpiritCreeper(event.getWorld());
creeper.setPositionAndRotation(event.getTarget().getPosition().getX(), event.getTarget().getPosition().getY(), event.getTarget().getPosition().getZ(), event.getTarget().rotationYaw, event.getTarget().rotationPitch);
event.getWorld().spawnEntity(creeper);

Excuse the long line of code. Going to refactor soon.

I tried with both methods btw.

[TheUnnamed]

Not 100% sure as I don't have a 1.11.2 workspace set up, but in 1.14.2 the Javadocs tells me that setRotationAndPosition() sets the position and rotation, clamping and wrapping params to valid values. Used by network code.

Whereas setLocationAndAngles() simply sets the location and Yaw/Pitch of the entity in the world.

[MSpace-Dev]

Ah, interesting. Guess I'll use the latter then. Any idea about the above issue? Can't find a method that returns floating point values.

[TheUnnamed]

Regarding your problem, use the posX, posY, posZ double variables instead, from the entity class, this I believe will give you the exact position.

[MSpace-Dev]

Ah, found it. Thanks for all the help