(joshjustga) Correct mechanic to select the facing direction of a text display?

[light wedge]

I have a none moveable giant server logo im trying to position but i cant figure out the mechanic to make it face a certain way? (It's a text display)

/ex spawn "text_display[text=<white>;background_color=transparent;scale=3,3,3;view_range=100]" <player.location>

There is no 'script' because it only has to be spawned in once.

Thanks!

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(joshjustga) Correct mechanic to select the facing direction of a text display?

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[light wedge]

by default its north facing but I need it east facing

[unreal mist]

Rotate it

!m left_rotation

[wild snow]

Mechanism: left_rotation

(Property) A display entity's "left" rotation.
Note that !mechanism EntityTag.right_rotation is also available, but should normally use this instead.

Group

Properties

Object

EntityTag

Input

QuaternionTag

Tags

<EntityTag.left_rotation> (Property) A display entity's "left" rotation. Note that <@link mechanis...

[unreal mist]

Or teleport it after spawning it if you want to

[light wedge]

I tried this but no matter what numbers i put it it doesnt seem to move :S

how exactly is it formatted?

left_rotation=90

?

[unreal mist]

Look at the meta, what input does it take?

[light wedge]

QuaternionTag

If only i knew what they was ig xD

/ex spawn "text_display[text=<white>;background_color=transparent;scale=3,3,3;view_range=100;left_rotation=0,3,0,1]" <player.location>

This is so confusing

This makes it about 3000 blocks wide (lol)

Why cant we just have a facing direction 🤣

[chrome geyser]

should face the direction the entity is facing

there was a bug in paper where they dont rotate on spawn

just do it in a teleport command right after

re-tp it to your loc

[light wedge]

Yeah this always faces this way

when i stand on the redstone and run the ex command

[chrome geyser]

even after being teleported?

[light wedge]

How do i tp it to my location if it's not a saved entity?

Sorry im new to doing stuff like this

(working outside of a dsc)

[chrome geyser]

!t find_entities

[wild snow]

Tag: <LocationTag.find_entities[(<matcher>)].within[<#.#>]>

Returns a list of entities within a radius, with an optional search parameter for the entity type.
Result list is sorted by closeness (1 = closest, 2 = next closest, ... last = farthest).

Group

finding

Returns

ListTag(EntityTag)

[light wedge]

Well tbh

i know there is no others near me so

i just need nearest entity

!t nearest

[wild snow]

Tag: <LocationTag.find_nearest_biome[<biome>]>

Returns the location of the nearest block of the given biome type (or null).
Warning: may be extremely slow to process. Use with caution.

Group

finding

Returns

LocationTag

[light wedge]

!nearest entity

oop

!t nearest_entity

[wild snow]

Cannot Find Searched Tag

Unknown tag.

Possible Confusion

Did you mean to search for npctag.target_entity?

[light wedge]

humm

[chrome geyser]

you use my tag

[light wedge]

/ex adjust player.location.find_entities[(<text_display)].within[<5>]>

What mech?

and oop i see thats malformed

lmao

[chrome geyser]

no mec

[light wedge]

/ex teleport player.location.find_entities[(text_display)].within[5]>

!c teleport

[wild snow]

Command: Teleport

Group

entity

Syntax

teleport (<entity>|...) [<location>] (cause:<cause>) (entity_options:<option>|...) (relative) (relative_axes:<axis>|...)

Short Description

Teleports the entity(s) to a new location.

Description

Teleports the entity or entities to the new location.
Entities can be teleported between worlds using this command.
You may optionally specify a teleport cause for player entities, allowing proper teleport event handling. When not specified, this is "PLUGIN". See !language teleport cause for causes.

Instead of a valid entity, an unspawned NPC or an offline player may also be used.

Optionally specify "relative" to use relative teleportation (Paper only). This is primarily useful only for...

[light wedge]

Ig i messed up the matcher?

oh wait

Isnt this a list..

[chrome geyser]

it's not currently a list because the tag is busted, but yes a proper tag will give you a list

[light wedge]

got it yeah my bad

Thanks! so thats a paper bug ig?

[chrome geyser]

it might be patched by now but for safety ive been teleporting my display entities right after spawning them

[light wedge]

Phew thanks!

idk why but whenever i place this (only this one) after about 3 weeks

it moves to the right

and loses it's render distance qualities

[chrome geyser]

is it after server restarts

[light wedge]

Nope we reboot every day and its fine for weeks

never found the cause tbh but I normally spawn it with vanilla commands so this is the first time trying with denizen

will see if its any better

[chrome geyser]

sounds good

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[light wedge]

thanks man