Spawning Custom Entities With Custom View Distance?

How do you spawn a custom entity (zombie with armour and skeletons with custom health) and set their view distance to higher than 40 blocks which is default for zombies etc?

I know I shouldn't but I need this answered sooooo *Bump*

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

The way I do it, requires NMS.

Have you looked at Jacek 's tutorial on customizing behavior of a mob/entity?

 

Axe2760 could you send me a link my way

 

SuperOmegaCow http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tutorial-how-to-customize-the-behaviour-of-a-mob-or-entity.54547/ It's a brilliant tutorial, if you want to understand it more read the NMS source code https://github.com/Bukkit/mc-dev/tree/master/net/minecraft/server

So you want to extend say EntityZombie, then set the pathfindergoals so that zombies will target players from x blocks away.

 

Axe2760 Amazing tutorial I read through it now just looking at some of the NMS source code, thanks

 

You can modify the view distance of a mob by giving it an attribute modifier too, see http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tutorial-setting-entity-attributes.158065/