throw splash potion

[lean marten]

Looking for a way to throw splash potion that will give the actual effect to the nearby entities

[rough nexus]

You want to make Custom Splash Potion, and you want to throw it, right?

First, do spawnEntity at player.getHeadLocation().
Then do applyImpulse at player.getViewDirection() to make it throw.
Then check for nearby entities using world.getEntities({}), then apply effect to them.

[sour pond]

there's an official method to throw/shoot projectiles.

you spawn the entity, get the projectile component from the entity, then use the shoot method.

there's properties you can set too, I recommend making a function for it.

[rough nexus]

yeah your right, i just live in the dinosaur age, so i didnt know about the shoot method

[lean marten]

well actually im looking if they're any convenient way

[lean marten]

Do I need to create my own custom particle with it? I just need to throw vanilla potion and iirc they dont have projectile component in it

[sour pond]

they have the projectile component.

all things thrown are projectiles

[random tide]

1. use Map and save the splash potion's custom data after being thrown (detected by entitySpawn)
2. Use either projectileHitEntity or projectileHitBlock event listeners.
3. Retrieve the data from the Map and use the provided location from the event projectileHit listener. (The splash potion entity becomes invalid at this point except its .id)
4. Do all fancy visual effects code and stuff

[lean marten]

oh really, so i can use onEntitySpawn then??

[sour pond]

are you looking to throw it or detect when its thrown...

you are confusing me now

because I gave you a solution already.

[lean marten]

well the thing is that I can't get the projectile component if I take the entity reference from the return value of dimension.spawnEntity(). However, that projectile component is available if I take the entity reference from entitySpawn.subscribe

[sour pond]

you can.

unless you mean when it splashes, then do what gega says

[lean marten]

Have you tried that yourself? I'm sure it wont work cuz I've just tried that by the time I sent my previous reply

[sour pond]

Yes, I have.

multiple times.

maybe you are doing incorrectly? share your code.

[lean marten]

const e = dimension.spawnEntity("splash_potion", location)
if (e.getComponent("projectile") instanceof EntityProjectileComponent) console.warn("projectile component")
else console.warn("component is not present")

[sour pond]

you do not need to do instanceof

[lean marten]

what is the scripting version du you use? is it beta version or stable?

[sour pond]

that doesnt matter, getting the projectile component is doable in stable.

[lean marten]

well if that getComponent('projectile_component') doesnt return EntityProjectileComponent, how would I call shoot() method

[sour pond]

...

you got the projectile component correctly last time

idk why you did 'projectile_component' this time

getComponent('projectile')

[lean marten]

oh, sorry I mean getComponent("projectile")

You got the point, right?

[lean marten]

oh nvm, I got it typo :D