How to change player model depending on the players tag

[minor zealot]

Can you change the player model depending on what tag they have. Like one tag changes their player model to something, and another tag changes it to another model.

[raw zephyr]

I would like to know this as well.

[sharp gyro]

tag as in /tag or as in nametag?

[minor zealot]

as in /tag

[sharp gyro]

Use entity variants and call it from a /event

and make it a requirement to have the tag in the target parameter of said command

I was writing a wiki page about entity variants but I didn't feel like finishing it yet, however you can find helpful information there anyway https://github.com/Kaioga5/bedrock-wiki/blob/wiki/entity_variants

[raw zephyr]

Thank you!

[gaunt robin]

Use this in an environment sensor to detect the player’s tags

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/reference/content/entityreference/examples/filters/has_tag

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/reference/content/entityreference/examples/entitycomponents/minecraftcomponent_environment_sensor

[minor zealot]

I can't find any entity.client.json file at RP/entity/

I guess I'll make one?

[sharp gyro]

It is there, you don’t need to create one, just move it from the vanilla pack to your pack

[sharp gyro]

Looks like you aren’t looking in the vanilla packs 🤭

?vp

[knotty ridge]

Vanilla Packs

Downloadable from: https://github.com/Mojang/bedrock-samples/releases

bedrock.dev archive: https://bedrock.dev/packs
GitHub (RP & BP) : https://github.com/bedrock-dot-dev/packs

Example particles: https://aka.ms/MCParticlesPack

[minor zealot]

do I then add the player.entity.json file to .../entity/?

the file from the sample

[sharp gyro]

You move it from the vanilla resource pack to your resource pack in the same directory it was in the vanilla pack, which is YourRP/entity

[minor zealot]

yeah, that's what I meant

[minor zealot]

I don't really understand how this code is meant to work. Like how does the behavior packs code with component groups, etc change the geometry and texture of the player. Like I don't see any correlation between the BP and RP. Nothing like, "if (variation == 1) { geometry = geomtry.zombie }. I know this isn't how the code is formulated at all, but I'm used to C#, so this syntax is very different to me.

[sharp gyro]

The variant component is set in the BP and can be read in RP basically.

[dapper pond]

I get what you mean, if you're used to how regular programming languages work this whole system seems weird but I found that the bedrock.dev website is a pretty helpful tool to understand how this system works.

They have a guide on how to build a custom entity here: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/guide/custom-entity.html

This guide explains how the BP side of entities works: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/entities/entity-intro-bp.html
and this one explains the RP side works: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/entities/entity-intro-rp

If you read these guides thoroughly I think it should make sense how the BP and RP correlate with each other. (I really helped me out at least)