How to make an entity jump in direction of another?

[pepper82]

Hi all,

I have spawned a zombie which I want to make jump towards the player. Is this possible? And if so, how would you do it?

 

[ShaneBee]

get the vector between the zombie and the player then push it along the vector

 

[ShaneBee]

How would you do this? Never worked with vectors :O

 

[ShaneBee]

set {_vector} to vector between last spawned zombie and player's location
push last spawned zombie {_vector} at speed 1

 

[ShaneBee]

I will test it, thank you!

 

[ShaneBee]

set {_vector} to vector between last spawned zombie and player's location
push last spawned zombie {_vector} at speed 1

the push effect doesn't accept vectors, you'd use the velocity expression of RandomSK (the Skript one is broken at the moment, waiting for the pull request of Sashie to be merged in the next release to fix this).

If you have skQuery you can achieve the same anyways:

push last spawned zombie (direction from player to last spawned zombie) at speed 1

 

[ShaneBee]

the push effect doesn't accept vectors, you'd use the velocity expression of RandomSK (the Skript one is broken at the moment, waiting for the pull request of Sashie to be merged in the next release to fix this).

If you have skQuery you can achieve the same anyways:

push last spawned zombie (direction from player to last spawned zombie) at speed 1

it accepts vectors for me (dev29 & spigot 1.12)
i tested with this:

on leftclick holding stick:
    spawn a zombie above target block
    set {_vector} to vector between last spawned zombie and player's location
    push last spawned zombie {_vector} at speed 1

but i guess the skquery way you showed is better since its only 1 line

 

[ShaneBee]

set {_vector} to vector between last spawned zombie and player's location
push last spawned zombie {_vector} at speed 1

Do you have link on how to use victors

 

[ShaneBee]

Do you have link on how to use victors

A vector is just a line between two points, in this case entities.
https://www.skunity.com/search?search=vector

 

[ShaneBee]

A vector is just a line between two points, in this case entities.
https://www.skunity.com/search?search=vector

You can see the available vector expressions here:
https://bensku.github.io/Skript/expressions.html

Although if you don't know what a vector it you prob don't need it.