Hey there!
Is there any way to get nearby entities in Sponge? In Spigot, there’s just a simple .getNearbyEntities(…) that does it for you. I’m having a hard time finding it in Sponge. I see there’s an Extent#getEntities(). I’m not too sure what an Extent is, but isn’t it more or less like a Chunk, but with more info?
Any help is appreciated!
An Extent is any generic area of a world. Both World and Chunk extend Extent.
Hmmm, okay. So is there a way to create an “extent” area of size X x Y x Z and Extent#getEntities()? That could be a possible way to get nearby entities, but there’s probably an easier way xD
You can use extent.getExtentView to get a subsection view of the parent extent.
There are several useful methods to get entities. getEntities can take a predicate to filter through the list of entities. (you could filter for a nearby location for example)
Also you could use getIntersectingEntities, give the method an AABB (axis aligned bounding box) and it will return all entities within that box.
Is this what you are looking for? Given an entity you can grab nearby entities within a certain distance.
Thanks everyone. Simon, that’s definitely good info I’ll keep in mind. But in this particular case, Zerthick, that’s exactly what I was looking for! 