Solved Get entity player is looking

Hello Bukkit,

I'm developing a plugin for my server (not open yet).
I wanted to make a feature where when you hit a player it throws him in the air.
I used the EntityDamageByEntityEvent for that, it worked fine.
But because admins are in gm 1, the "EntityDamageByEntityEvent" doesn't fire...
So I used the PlayerAnimationEvent but the problem is:
How do I get the entity the player is looking ? (Entity would be better then Player)

So if anyone knows how to get the entity a player is looking, would be great !
You might want to use player.getEyeLocation().getDirection() and get entity on this line (but how!)

Thanks for helping,
- au2001

 

Bump

 

au2001 Checking from eye level and iterating through the blocks in the direction they are looking. Make sure to subtract 2 from the y for each of those blocks though. Then I would cycle through the players on the server's locations and see if they match up. With this method you can make a distance for the iterator also.

 

http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org/bukkit/entity/LivingEntity.html#hasLineOfSight(org.bukkit.entity.Entity)

 

Code:java

import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.util.Vector;
import org.bukkit.entity.Entity;
 
public class Targeter {
 
    public static Player getTargetPlayer(final Player player) {
        return getTarget(player, player.getWorld().getPlayers());
    }
 
    public static Entity getTargetEntity(final Entity entity) {
        return getTarget(entity, entity.getWorld().getEntities());
    }
 
    public static <T extends Entity> T getTarget(final Entity entity,
            final Iterable<T> entities) {
        if (entity == null)
            return null;
        T target = null;
        final double threshold = 1;
        for (final T other : entities) {
            final Vector n = other.getLocation().toVector()
                    .subtract(entity.getLocation().toVector());
            if (entity.getLocation().getDirection().normalize().crossProduct(n)
                    .lengthSquared() < threshold
                    && n.normalize().dot(
                            entity.getLocation().getDirection().normalize()) >= 0) {
                if (target == null
                        || target.getLocation().distanceSquared(
                                entity.getLocation()) > other.getLocation()
                                .distanceSquared(entity.getLocation()))
                    target = other;
            }
        }
        return target;
    }
 
}

This code is not from me, but since I develop plugins only for my server I don´t know who made this code^^
to get the entity the player is facing at simple call:

Code:java

getTargetEntity(your_player)//or
getTargetEntity(your_entity)
 

To get a player replace Entity with player. It returns null if there is no entity.

 

Wouldnt a playerinteractentity event fire? (On rightclick)

 

TheWolfBadger That would be really buggy and would take all lot of server ressources... Looping through each entity 5 times...
And players could click every tick or so... that would make the server lag a lot...
I think there's another way to get the entity...

@Necrodoom Maybe it does ! I'll try that ! Thanks

@Androm if Necrodoom's code doesn't work I'll try yours, looks fine

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

 

I used my code to sitch place with entites if you right-click and sneak with a special item and it´s fast because it returns the first (LivingEntity/Creature..) entity in the direction a player is facing. But for your things Necrodoom ´s code is better^^.

 

That does not take where their head is looking into account, it just makes sure a line can be drawn.

 

Garris0n Ah ok.

 

For right clicking, @Necrodoom's code is working perfect
For left clicking, Garris0n is right but @Androm's code works fine

Thanks everyone for helping