Despawn mob when you look at him

[short night]

Im doing a small horror addon and I'm wondering how can I make the mob disappear when the player look at him, its using commands? Behiavor? How can I do something like that?

[severe sluice]

easiest way is to use scripts

use the getEntitiesFromViewDirection() method on the player

do you have any experience with scripting?

[pastel venture]

You could do:
/execute as @a at @s positioned ^^^100 run event entity @e[r=99.9] <your event for despawn>

[short night]

So using functions right?

[pastel venture]

ye

[short night]

No I'm not

[pastel venture]

its kinda easier since its just 1 command lol, no need scripts for that

but if you want i can use scripts

[short night]

I was looking into some addons and saw that some of the use functions and dummy to call the despawn event to the mob

[pastel venture]

thats what it does

just add type= in the event so itll affect just your entity

[short night]

So how can I make this function work properly in my mob without affecting other mobs? Should I call it in the behavior

[pastel venture]

do you have a event with minecraft:instant_despawn component?

[short night]

Still no

[pastel venture]

well, its better

cuz using /kill makes it red and drop xp and items yk

[short night]

Yes

So I may add the despawn component and force it to trigger

When i look at the entity

[pastel venture]

ye, and execute the event in the entity that is in front of you

[short night]

Oh alright ty, I'm pretty sure I need put it in the tick.json to keep working

Thanks I'll try it later I'm a bit busy rn but I can ping you if an error occurs if you don't mind being pinged

[pastel venture]

ye

[pastel venture]

sure

SCRIPT VERSION

-# if you wanna use it

import { world, system } from "@minecraft/server";

system.runInterval(() => {
 world.getPlayers().forEach((player) => {

player.getEntitiesFromViewDirection({
   type: "prefix:yourentity"
}).forEach((e) => {

 const entity = e.entity;

 // this is the event to despawn the entity
entity.triggerEvent("your:event_to_despawn");

     });
  });
});

[pastel venture]

@short night if you wanna use scripts...

[short night]

Oh thank you so much I'll try it later!

[urban sage]

just use the lookat component to call an event that adds the despawn component in a component group

You guys are wild haha

[severe sluice]

lookat is definitely a good option, but it only works when you look at the entity's head

[severe sluice]

if you were to use that command, wouldn't it get all entities in this giant circle?

[pastel venture]

ye

[short night]

Yes i tested the script and the lookat behavior, the script didn't worked bc he says that I'm using 1.0.0-beta? And says that I need choose another version

[pastel venture]

That's why I also gave the script option

[short night]

Lookat looks very fine since the entity it's humanoid

[pastel venture]

then you should try it

[short night]

Already did it, it's working fine

[pastel venture]

nice

[pastel venture]

you should use 1.11.0 or 1.12.0-beta

[short night]

Just need to manage to learn how to make a entity spawn near to the player and disappear with a timer(it's no hard I mean but I'm a long time without make any addons)

[short night]

How

[pastel venture]

change the version in your bp manifest

[short night]

OH

[pastel venture]

of @minecraft/server

[short night]

So this is why

Thanks again I'll try it too

[pastel venture]

hmm, i really dk how to do it in the entity file

[short night]

I think call a function can make it

[smoky oracle]

entity.remove()

[pastel venture]

does that work with any entity?

[smoky oracle]

yes.

[pastel venture]

cool

[buoyant field]

how can I do this

[buoyant field]

.

im trying to do the same thing without scripts

can you explain to me

[pastel venture]

minecraft:looked_at