[1.15.2] Custom Player Entity

[MickeyD3557]

If I wanted to create a custom player entity, to overwrite the functionality of the player, how could I do that? I have noticed that the player is initialized in net.minecraft.client . If Overwriting this variable is what I would need to do, how would I go about doing that? If I need to, can I/ how do I change some of the code in this main Minecraft.java file?

[DavidM]

  On 6/13/2020 at 3:23 AM, MickeyD3557 said:

If I wanted to create a custom player entity, to overwrite the functionality of the player, how could I do that? I have noticed that the player is initialized in net.minecraft.client . If Overwriting this variable is what I would need to do, how would I go about doing that? If I need to, can I/ how do I change some of the code in this main Minecraft.java file?

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You can't.

 

What are you trying to achieve? What is your mod going to do? It is likely that what you are trying to achieve does not require modifications to the vanilla files.

Edited June 13, 2020 by DavidM

[MickeyD3557]

  On 6/13/2020 at 3:58 AM, DavidM said:

You can't.

 

What are you trying to achieve? What is your mod going to do? It is likely that what you are trying to achieve does not require modifications to the vanilla files.

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I want to change what happens when you left click with different objects, essentially. Also, I want to change the way that sword damage is calculated. In vanilla, damage is reduced based on the speed of attack, and there is a charge bar for a swing attack, unless I am misunderstanding something. My goal is to change this to a sort of repeatable n hit combo. 

 

This is just one of the goals of the mod, there are other things including changing how xp is gathered and player leveling is done, and adding new actions to the player. 

 

I had an idea, but I am unsure of if it would work yet: Writing a sub class which overrides functionality of the PlayerEntity, and replacing the reference in the Main Minecraft file through reflection. The problem is: When would I be able to do this without breaking anything. It would need to be after Minecraft.instance is initialized somehow. Is this a possibility?

[Draco18s]

All of those can be accomplished others ways.

There's InteractionEvents for things like "left clicking objects" and another for the player attacking and dealing damage. Pretty sure there's one regarding picking up EXP (you would then handle the effects in a Capability) and so on.

[MickeyD3557]

I see. The reason I am concerned about it is because I am writing a custom renderer and model for the player. Things like sword swings and other actions are stored in the entity handed to the PlayerRenderer. It uses swing progress and other things in order to animate the model. I had two concerns when seeing this: Would I need to change the entity coming in in order to add new features for animation? The second issue was where the hit boxes were stored. If they are stored in the model thats fine, but if they are prepared in the entity I see no way around changing it. If I wanted to do a vertical slash, and there were 2 enemies in front of me, stacked on top of each other, like a spider jockey, they should both be hit. If the hit boxes are in the entity, then I would need to change the hit boxes in the entity based on the action.

 

We have plenty of other ideas we may want to implement once we figure out limitations of the modding, so I wish I could provide more concrete examples of what we want to do, but to sum up its a lot(I think). 

 

With all that in mind, can that be done only by hooking onto events?

[DavidM]

  On 6/14/2020 at 8:53 PM, MickeyD3557 said:

With all that in mind, can that be done only by hooking onto events?

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Yes.

 

  On 6/14/2020 at 8:53 PM, MickeyD3557 said:

Would I need to change the entity coming in in order to add new features for animation?

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No.

 

  On 6/14/2020 at 8:53 PM, MickeyD3557 said:

If I wanted to do a vertical slash, and there were 2 enemies in front of me, stacked on top of each other, like a spider jockey, they should both be hit. If the hit boxes are in the entity, then I would need to change the hit boxes in the entity based on the action.

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You don't need to change the hitbox. Just subscribe to an attack event and change the way hitbox are calculated in an attack.

[MickeyD3557]

Thanks for the help, both of you!

 

Since Im new to the forum, Im not sure if there is a function to close this thread, or what best practices are for selecting an answer, so feel free to let me know about that as well!

[Draco18s]

  On 6/14/2020 at 10:00 PM, MickeyD3557 said:

Im not sure if there is a function to close this thread

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You don't. There's no point. Its a forum not Stack Exchange.