Solved "Refresh" An entity for a player.

I would like to know any way to simply refresh a entity for a player to updates it's rotation.

If you did not know item frames are wierd and don't face the right direction at first until you reload the chunk.

I need anyway to send a packet or anything to refresh any Entity object for a player.

Things I've tried:

Code:

//Loop to unload chunk(I already deleted code)

enLoc.getChunk().unload(true, false);
enLoc.getChunk().load();

The both don't work nor would I like to use them as I JUST want to refresh the entity.

Ideas: Somehow spawning an entity with a nbt tag that I choose.
Removing then Adding the entity(Is there a packet for all entities types?) packets
Thats all the ideas I got. '-'

 

Quote from the minecraft wiki's entity nbt list:

It's pretty straight forward in my opinion.

 

Before everyone hates me(I know you will a bit) I get great ideas when I ask a question on bukkit.
Whenever I ask a question I get amazing ideas and they seem to work.
I'm very sorry for that. ^

So here we go. . .

Code:

CraftWorld cw = ((CraftWorld)loc);
Entity en cw.createEntity(loc, EntityType.ITEM_FRAME);
//Set nbt and everything else
cw.addEntity(ce, SpawnReason.CUSTOM);

This should allow anyone to create an entity and expect it to do exactly what you want without ANY need for updates.

@mcdorli Also that wouldn't work as great as I would have to check the entity type first right?

 

No, you need to set an nbt tag for the spawned entity.