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MamaLuigi
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Topic category: Help with modding (Java Edition)
I am making a mod where if you are looking at the sun, and you are holding a specific item, (in my case being a Sun Medallion), then something will happen.
But how would I detect if you are looking at the sun at all?
Is this even possible?
If so, how would I do it, and if not, what could I do instead?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
What i mean is, how would i fix the thing where early or late in the day, you have to look below?
Also, i probably should've asked this earlier, but how would i check if the player is looking at a block or not?
You can just use the look x/y/z position to get the position of the block the entity is looking at. It returns 0/0/0 if the entity is looking into empty space.
As for fixing the offset, I'm not totally sure. The issue is that it's not a perfect sync- the sun rises a little before time 0, and sets a little after time 12000, so it doesn't match up perfectly. (According to the wiki, true sunrise is at 23000, and true sunset is closer to 13000.) The idea is still the same, but it totally messes with the math- you would need to do a separate conversion in which 23000 is the new 0, and 13000 becomes 12000, and I'm not 100% sure what the exact numbers would be.
Could you show me the procedure i could use to detect if the player can see the sun and the new math procedure?
...I'll, uh, give it a try I guess. Like I said, I'm not 100% sure how this would work, but it's likely going to be complicated.
Thanks!
Here's the (mostly) fixed version. It's not pretty, basically just has different math for every edge case, but I'm gonna call it good enough.
Thanks! I'll try it out!
I got it to work, but would you be able to make a procedure that detects if there aren't any solid blocks in front of you?
You should be able to just check if the block at the player's x/y/z look position is non-solid. The only time this won't return a block is when the player is looking at the sky.