Detect the entity the player is looking at

Yes that is possible.

Of course it is possible! Look at raytracing. I believe MCreator has raytracing capabilities. But here is a snippet from one of my mods if you need direction that apply this (1.15.2)

if (rayTraceResult.getType() == RayTraceResult.Type.ENTITY) {
                    playercap.addChakra(-chakraAmount * playercap.returnChakraControl());
                    BlockPos pos = ((EntityRayTraceResult) rayTraceResult).getEntity().getPosition();
                    Entity entity = ((EntityRayTraceResult) rayTraceResult).getEntity();
                    System.out.println(entity);
                    entity.setPositionAndUpdate(playerIn.getPosX(), playerIn.getPosY(), playerIn.getPosZ());
                    playerIn.setPositionAndUpdate(pos.getX(), pos.getY(), pos.getZ());

This "switches" places with you and the entity you look at (that may not be what you need but the point is still there). I get the results using the method below.

RayTraceResult rayTraceResult = Minecraft.getInstance().objectMouseOver;

Tbroski, is there a way to recreate this in procedure form? I'm not familiar with coding, and need to customize it so that my custom mob freezes when I look at it.

I don't believe so punkmonkey, sorry.

I guess you could without coding, since there is procedure blocks for "look x y z position - raytrace distance", maybe by coinciding angles from the distance between you and the mob and the mob position and where you are looking you could set the mob in cobweb or setting its speed to 0 0 0. Maybe you do not even have to coincide angles, if where you are looking is coinciding with the mob position it will set its speed to 0 0 0.

msrodrigues2000 yes

No problem. :)

is there a way to do this in 1.12.2?

what does that mean?

can someone try to make it with procedures?
i can't quite figure it out

Try something using this:

https://imgur.com/y7OcmJS

It will help a lot

While it is possible to check for block in a radius of the player with IGE's method, this has crashed my game every time the procedure runs and does not find an entity or block(basically if it only detects air where the player looks, it crashes). Does anyone know of any other ways to detect/select certain entities that a player is looking at? Currently MCraetor's raytrace only works for blocks...   :(