Solved Set Entity Yaw

Hello All!

This is probably going to turn out incredibly obvious, but how do I set the yaw (i.e. rotation or direction looking) of an entity? Currently, I use this:

Code:java

Location spawnLocation = new Location(someWorld, x, y, z);
spawnLocation.setYaw((float) (Math.random() * 360.0d));
someWorld.spawnEntity(spawnLocation, EntityType.ZOMBIE); //Zombie is just an example, I change it up.

This method always spawns them facing North though.

I also tried putting some debug output for the "Math.random() * 360.0d" part to verify it was giving values between 0 and 360 degrees, and it was.

Am I missing something? Or is yaw in radians or something like that?

Thanks in advance!
~thebiologist13

 

Hmm, I belive spawnEntity() doesn't care about the angles of location.

The only way you can change pitch/yaw of an entity is by using teleport.
There is a http://mc.kev009.com/Protocol#Entity_Look_.280x20.29 packet but you'd have to use CB/NMS code for that (or ProtocolLib).

But for your code using teleport would be just fine since you just spawned the entity.

EDIT:
Also, instead of using 360.0d and casting to float why not use 360.0f ?

 

Thanks so much! This worked perfectly.

I changed it to this:

Code:java

Location spawnLocation = new Location(someWorld, x, y, z);
spawnLocation.setYaw((float) (Math.random() * 360.0d));
Entity entity = someWorld.spawnEntity(spawnLocation, EntityType.ZOMBIE);
entity.teleport(spawnLocation);
 

Also, I was using 360.0d instead because I put the "Math.random() * 360.0d" in a separate "randomRotation()" method that returns a double. I suppose it could return a float though.






Thanks again!
~thebiologist13