Set an entity name 1.5

I have a plugin that displays health bar over mob heads, as custom name. If someone get killed by a mob with health bar, in chat appears the health bar as killer. How can I change a mob name when a player gets killed by a mob, but before the death message is printed on chat?

 

I'd suggest to replace the death message. http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org...hEvent.html#setDeathMessage(java.lang.String)

You can get the Player with .getEntitiy() and the killer with .getEntity().getKiller(). With instanceof you can check for the type of the killer.

 

I would like to change entity name for other plugin that uses death messages...EntityDamageByEntityEvent is called before PlayerDeathEvent?

 

Yea but you would need to calculate if the player will die. This includes armor which has to be calculated completly manually afaik. How do you set the new name of the entities?

 

mob.setCustomName(string)

So I cannot set an entity name before death message?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Well, you could. Currently, I am testing. I assume you can change the name back to normal on PlayerDeath and reset it to your health bar after all events are processed.

Well... That does not work. The death message is already set when the on death event is called.

 

I will replace death message, no escape

 

Make that a "feature", make death message configurable.

 

Nice idea! But with the new 1.5 death messages I'm unable to get the lastCauseDamage! For example with this "Player walked into a fire whilst fighting ---" the cause of death is fire, and not the mob

 

Which is correct, no? If you want the last mob that made damage you would need to save that one for every player. You can get it from the EntityDamageByEntityEvent

 

Too complicated, I just replaced death messages, if they contains a weird charater from health bar thank you however

 

Please use EntityType instead of instanceof.

 

Why?