Smooth player movement

[weary forum]

So I've been trying to move the player around and every solution I've come across doesn't quite work for what I want (for context I'm moving the player while they have 0 gravity so only 2 dimensions).

• Teleport an entity to the player to push them around: Too slow
• Teleport the player: Too jittery
• Explosions: requires removing and re-adding explosions + texturepack which I don't want to do
• Ride an entity and teleport the entity: Player is in the riding postion (want them standing)

Wanted to check if there's anything I havn't thought of or if I'll need to compromise on one of the above options. Maybe a way to increase how much a mob pushes the player?

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[honest willow]

just use delta

its an explosion based library for datapacks that allow to give any motion to players, and it does not require a resourcepack so its a perfect solution for ya?

[weary forum]

Ah I thought it used a resource pack to get rid of the explosion particle effect.

Yeah it's not bad I guess I'd just rather keep the pack light weight and all my own stuff, nice not to have other things that might affect stuff you don't realize it affects. I haven't actually looked into how delta's code works but I imagine it would be fairly complicated for me to figure out.

[tacit bloom]

https://modrinth.com/datapack/player_motion

[tacit bloom]

delta has been outdated for a long time

[weary forum]

Yeah I knew about these libraries but once again I want to find an option that doesn't depend on something else, that I can do myself

[honest willow]

why? its not like people have to download the library, too. you just inject it in your datapack, so the whole thing is in a single datapack, no downloading extra stuff. just saying if that was the reason of you not wanting to use delta

[honest willow]

yeah, and then it was forked and uploaded as "player motion" which at the core is still delta

[tacit bloom]

player motion has been completely rewritten, there is no delta mechanics

[honest willow]

ooh, damn thats kinda neat, i was pretty sure its a fork though! good to know.

[tacit bloom]

the datapack uses end crystals, and there are no advancements for the sub-tick

[weary forum]

Ok I ended up looking at player motion and copying their method into my pack, for what I needed it to do I could achieve with just 6 lines so saved a ton of bulk

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[honest willow]

6 lines is crazy though