Solved get the direction a player is facing

I have tried using yaw but if you turn one direction it will end up going negative. In the debug screen (F3) the is and f with a number that changes according to the direction you are facing, is there any way to get this. Also I've thought about using the getDirection() which return a vector but I'm not very good with working with vectors. I need to be able to get whether if a player would walk forward if they would be going mainly in the x+, x-, z+, or z- direction.

 

How I do this in BKCommonLib: (source file)

Snippet:

PHP:

    public static final BlockFace[] axis = { BlockFace.NORTH, BlockFace.EAST, BlockFace.SOUTH, BlockFace.WEST };
    public static final BlockFace[] radial = { BlockFace.NORTH, BlockFace.NORTH_EAST, BlockFace.EAST, BlockFace.SOUTH_EAST, BlockFace.SOUTH, BlockFace.SOUTH_WEST, BlockFace.WEST, BlockFace.NORTH_WEST };
   
    /**
    * Gets the horizontal Block Face from a given yaw angle<br>
    * This includes the NORTH_WEST faces
    *
    * @param yaw angle
    * @return The Block Face of the angle
    */
    public static BlockFace yawToFace(float yaw) {
        return yawToFace(yaw, true);
    }
 
    /**
    * Gets the horizontal Block Face from a given yaw angle
    *
    * @param yaw angle
    * @param useSubCardinalDirections setting, True to allow NORTH_WEST to be returned
    * @return The Block Face of the angle
    */
    public static BlockFace yawToFace(float yaw, boolean useSubCardinalDirections) {
        if (useSubCardinalDirections) {
            return radial[Math.round(yaw / 45f) & 0x7];
        } else {
            return axis[Math.round(yaw / 90f) & 0x3];
        }
    }

If you want a value ranging 0 - 3 like in the debug window, simply use Math.round(yaw / 90f);

Note: you probably have to subtract a value or use inversion (360 - angle), as the dimension spaces differ between CraftBukkit and Minecraft client.

 

Thanks that works.