setting up a health bar using custom name nbt

[true zinc]

I have got the health bar for a non-player entity, I want it to contain the name of the entity or the custom name i've already given it. ping with response. if u need the commands, tell me

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[lavish jacinth]

well you can just prepend the name to your health bar

[drowsy hemlock]

Yep

I think you will have to use macros, but it shouldn't be very hard

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[true zinc]

in a function, I am running this:

data modify entity @s CustomName set string entity @s Health
data modify entity @s CustomNameVisible set value 1b```

that runs every tick and I can't get it to display health + entity's name

[north stream]

execute store result score @s health run data get entity @s Health
data modify entity @s CustomName set string entity @s Health
data modify entity @s CustomNameVisible set value 1b

[drowsy hemlock]

do you want to display the name and the health in the name of the bossbar?

[true zinc]

I didn't plan to have it run through a boss bar, but that is a good point

[drowsy hemlock]

what do you want to do precisely?

[true zinc]

I want the health of the mob and then the mobs name, preferably above it's head 20/20 mob_name kinda like that, if not, I would just like it's current health beside the mob's name

[drowsy hemlock]

Oh, so not in the bossbar

[lavish jacinth]

not sure if they work for entities but have you tried scoreboards?

[drowsy hemlock]

Oh I suppose it would be more opti than a storage

[true zinc]

the health criteria scoreboard doesn't work for entities, so the one I put in here is just a dummy scoreboard

[lavish jacinth]

no I mean for the displaying part

[drowsy hemlock]

Oh, like above name

[lavish jacinth]

you can make them display in the name, at least for players

[drowsy hemlock]

I'm not sure if non players can have that

[lavish jacinth]

yeah me niether but it's worth a shot

[drowsy hemlock]

ill test

[true zinc]

what I have so far is the health, as you can see, but can't get the name

[drowsy hemlock]

It would take the spot for everyone though, wouldn't it?

Like, their couldn't be a different scoreboard in display below_name

[lavish jacinth]

what?

it only display on entities with a scoreboard entry

[drowsy hemlock]

Could another scoreboard take the display?

I think it's per world and not per entity

[lavish jacinth]

no only one scoreboard can take a special display

[drowsy hemlock]

yep

so it would lock the spot

how do we even put a non player on a non read only scorebaord

[lavish jacinth]

normal?

[drowsy hemlock]

how is normal 😭

[lavish jacinth]

just use a selector to the entity

[drowsy hemlock]

with what subcommand

[lavish jacinth]

execute as @e store result score @s <objective> run data get entity @s Health

*@e

[drowsy hemlock]

is that necessary if it's already a health scoreboard

[lavish jacinth]

it will only track players then

[true zinc]

that is what the first line of the function does lol

[drowsy hemlock]

do health criteria not work in entities?

[true zinc]

the function is being targeted to entites already

[lavish jacinth]

yes, are we helping you here?

[drowsy hemlock]

well i didn't know that

Anyways hmm

[lavish jacinth]

does it work? (probs doesn't)

[true zinc]

health criteria doesn't work on non-player entities

[drowsy hemlock]

no it doesn't work

[lavish jacinth]

@true zinc CustomName takes json components (https://minecraft.wiki/w/Raw_JSON_text_format)

so you can set it to something like "{\"selector\":{\"selector\":\"@s\"}}" (not tested)

which should make a string containing the entity's name

then you can also display a space and a score to follow it

[true zinc]

i have it set up like this now, but it still doesn't work

scoreboard players display name @s health "@s"
data modify entity @s CustomName set value "{\"score\":{\"objective\": \"health\",\"name\": \"@s\"}}"
data modify entity @s CustomNameVisible set value 1b```

[true zinc]

data modify entity @s CustomName set value "{ \"score\": \"\",\"color\":\"#956620\"}" I tweaked it and now it is giving me a expected a map-like

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[upbeat smelt]

what do you want to do?

show the health number after the entity name?

[upbeat smelt]

what doesn't work about this?

[true zinc]

I want the health to display preferably before the name, but this entirely replaces the name, but it isn't displaying anything

[upbeat smelt]

hmm ok

[north stream]

if you modify the entities' name every tick like thi, I think it should work ```ansi
execute store result score @s health run data get entity @s Health
data modify entity @s CustomName set value "[{"score":{"objective": "health","name": "@s"}},{"selector":"@s"}]"

[true zinc]

testing it in a sec

[upbeat smelt]

idk if this works tho

since the name of the entity contains the name

there still is a sencond option tho

but it's less performant

[true zinc]

the name just becomes @s

[upbeat smelt]

hmm yea

is there a way to store the name of the entity in the entity itself?

or does it need to be every entity?

[true zinc]

hmmm

[upbeat smelt]

otherwise you could just store it's name and then modify it's actual name with the score infront

[true zinc]

I think there would be a problem with this because there will be multiple entities

[upbeat smelt]

if you store the name in the entity itself you can just display it directly

wait

I have an idea but I'm going to test it first

[true zinc]

would it be easier to have a text display above or below the entity name if the entities are standing still? because they will almost definitely be standing still

[upbeat smelt]

maby but lemme first try this

hmm yea the text display will be the way to go

[true zinc]

did ur thing not work?

[upbeat smelt]

nope i tried maby if you set the display mode of a scoreboard to display below name maby it would also work for entities but nope 😦

[true zinc]

scoreboard players display name @s health "@s"
data modify entity @s CustomName set value "[{\"score\":{\"objective\": \"health\",\"name\": \"@s\"}},{\"selector\":\"@s\"}]"
data modify entity @s CustomNameVisible set value 1b``` this is what I had wrote in the function that runs every tick

[upbeat smelt]

thats not haw that works

[true zinc]

huh

[north stream]

scoreboard objectives setdisplay below_name health

[upbeat smelt]

thats what I tried

[true zinc]

I still dont know what is wrong with my function

also, how do you get the text to be like that?

[upbeat smelt]

and then enter and type what you want

and then close with ```

[true zinc]

ok

[true zinc]

do u know what is wrong with it?

[upbeat smelt]

well in your function your first setting the entity's health into a score then you're setting the displayname of that score to @s literaly the text then you're displaying the number of the score with the entity's name after it which does not work since it would create an infinite loop and then you're setting the name always visible

so yea the commands work but it does not really make sense

[true zinc]

right

if I remove that it just becomes @s as the name again

[upbeat smelt]

what?

[true zinc]

second line

[upbeat smelt]

yap

[true zinc]

?

[upbeat smelt]

it will become @s

[true zinc]

why is what I wonder

is it because of the {selector} part

[upbeat smelt]

yap because it's an infinite loop and the game doesn't like that so to prevent a crash it just puts @s there

[north stream]

data modify entity @s CustomName set string entity @s Health
``` somehow this was working better

[lavish jacinth]

what the second line for

if you remove it it should work

[true zinc]

No if I remove the second line, it changes to @s

[north stream]

try

execute store result score @s health run data get entity @s Health
data modify entity @s CustomName set value "[\"\",{\"selector\":\"@s\",\"color\":\"aqua\"},{\"text\":\" [\",\"color\":\"gold\"},{\"score\":{\"name\":\"@s\",\"objective\":\"health\"}},{\"text\":\"]\",\"color\":\"gold\"}]"
data modify entity @s CustomNameVisible set value 1b

[upbeat smelt]

nope {\"selector\":\"@s\",\"color\":\"aqua\"} doesn't work

you cannot use a selector inside an entity's name

if the selector points to that entity

[true zinc]

so no ideas on how?

[upbeat smelt]

yea just a text display

[north stream]

execute store result score @s health run data get entity @s Health
data modify entity @s CustomNameVisible set value 1b
execute as @s at @s unless entity @e[tag=health_display,distance=..2] run summon text_display ^ ^1.5 ^ {Tags:[health_display],text:'{"color":"red","score":{"name":"@e[tag=enemy,distance=..2]","objective":"health"}}'}
``` the text display shows nothing

[true zinc]

I found a problem with text displays. if I have multiple enemys, the scoreboard only updates with the one that was damaged last

would it be easier to raycast and see which entity the player is looking at and then store that in a bossbar?

[true zinc]

I think I figured it out

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