The new direction hitbox animation is incorrect for at least the following entities:
Items (when throwing one, it chooses a random direction)
Lure of fishing rod (spins the whole time)
Arrows (messed up, see also TIL an arrow fired North or South will have a rotation argument in the direction they are travelling, while an arrow fired West or East, will have a rotation argument of the opposite direction...)
Thrown Potions and XP-Bottle (only North or South)
XPOrbs (random like items)
Horses (incorrect: 14w29b see screenshot; seems sometimes to happen when they want to rotate their head and then start eating)
Enderdragon (incorrect)
Fireworks (incorrect)
Minecarts
Linked issues
is duplicated by 4
MC-57901
Arrows and lures of fishing rod have incorrect looking direction
Resolved
MC-58552
Dropped items also have a blue line
Resolved
MC-58957
Dropped Items, throwing potions and bottle o' enchanting have in F3 + B mode a viewing direction
Resolved
MC-95232
Orientation of enderpearls are invetred when thrown
Resolved
relates to 2
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Comments 30
Is it a "direction" indicator or just the line of sight ? Look at a mob, the line is coming out of the eye level lines and turning with the head of the mob but does not indicate the direction of movement of the mob.
Well, you may have meant to say something different, but those statements are actually equivalent. Your statement says "not incorrect", which is a double negative, so your statement can be reduced to "Items having random line of sight is correct." "Items having random line of sight" is what this bug is about, and you are saying that it's correct.
Affects 1.8.7.
I believe that arrows are the most bugged here. The rest sound like they may be intended.
Well I don't really know if it should but items actually have random line of sight when dropped. You can verify this by testfor command with rotation arguments. (Or empty entitydata command) So my point is that Item having random line of sight is not a bug.
I think this bug should be split up into separate reports. Items, Lures, ThrownPotions, XPBottles, XPorbs, Fireworks, and Minecarts may well be intended. There's no clear direction they "should" face, and there isn't that much use in having a line of sight for those items. On the other hand, Arrows, Horses, and Enderdragons have a clear direction they are facing, and the line of light should work for them.
Also, does this occur with boats?
@unknown: You may create a new ticket for arrows, ender dragons and boats after confirming for each one that they are in fact still affected.
edit: Arrows are MC-74632.
Arrows