Get head with player skin

I just wanted to know, how pluggins like playerheads are able to get the head with the player skin?

 

It's just like renaming items with ItemMeta, except you cast it to SkullMeta, and then can .setOwner(playerName);
If you don't know about renaming items, read this

 

I'm lost with all teh skullMeta and ItemStack and stuf D: This is what I kurrently have (ITs probably totally mmixed up and wrong...)

Code:

Player p = (Player) sender;
                            Inventory pi = p.getInventory();   
                            ItemStack skull = new ItemStack(Material.SKULL, 1);
                            SkullMeta skullMeta = skull.getMetadata(args[1]);
                            skullMeta.setDisplayName(args[1]+"'s head");
                            skullMeta.setOwner((Player)args[1]);
                            Skull.setItemMeta(skullMeta);
                            pi.addItem(skull);

 

Very almost

Code:

Player p = (Player) sender; // have you checked (sender instanceof Player) before casting?
 
Inventory pi = p.getInventory();
 
ItemStack skull = new ItemStack(Material.SKULL, 1);
 
SkullMeta skullMeta = skull.getMetadata(); // no arguments needed
 
// skullMeta.setDisplayName(args[1]+"'s head"); // this line isn't needed
 
skullMeta.setOwner(args[1]); // takes a String for the name
 
skull.setItemMeta(skullMeta); // lowercase s, otherwise you're using a static method from Skull.class :o
 
pi.addItem(skull);

 

Julian1Reinhardt
Its skullMeta = skull.getItemMeta();

 

Error: "The method getMetadata() is undefined for the type ItemStack"

 

It most definitely is, are you importing the craftbukkit ItemStack instead of org.bukkit?

 

Chinwe
I imported org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack;

Chinwe
so is that wrong or correct?

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

 

Julian1Reinhardt
It's correct, not sure why it can't find getItemMeta() :<
You could try refreshing the project if you're using Eclipse, and/or restarting IDE, as sometimes errors persist even though they've been fixed

 

Chinwe
Nopee, still there.
I got some corrections though (Suggested by eclipse):
Either add (Object) to skull or change to .getData()

 

Ah apoligies, I forgot about casting it

Code:

SkullMeta meta = (SkullMeta) skull.getItemMeta();

 

Chinwe
Still the same problem... :/ Would Object casting work?

 

Julian1Reinhardt
Nupe, try rewriting that line from scratch, worked for me:

EDIT: Ohdam, why did I not notice I wrote Metadata instead of ItemMeta?
Gg to Assult for noticing

 

Julian1Reinhardt
Nah, still not working. And your eclipse highlights that part, too!

Chinwe
You sait it worked for you, but the .getMetadata(); part is also highlighted.

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

 

Julian1Reinhardt
By that I mean that the original line did, but writing it out again on the second line worked like a charm

 

Julian1Reinhardt

No, he said to replace it with:

Code:

SkullMeta meta = (SkullMeta) skull.getItemMeta();

and it would no longer be highlighted.

If it still is after you've changed it, it's possibly a different error.

Please bear in mind you're supposed to replace it; the only reason he had both of the lines there in the screenshot was to show the difference

EDIT: Ninja'd by Chinwe

 

I think its getItemMeta(), not metadata

damn, I didnt refresh the page and see that hoolean allready posted

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@Chinwe
Hoolean
Assult

No errors in eclipse, but when i try it, this line

Code:

SkullMeta meta = (SkullMeta)skull.getItemMeta();

Throws a ClassCastException

Code:

org.bukkit.command.CommandException: Unhandled exception executing command 'th'
in plugin Aurora Talking Heads v1.4
        at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:46)
        at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:19
1)
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServe
r.java:523)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerCon
nection.java:962)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.chat(PlayerConnection.j
ava:880)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java
:837)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.Packet3Chat.handle(SourceFile:49)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:296
)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.e(PlayerConnection.java
:116)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.ServerConnection.b(SourceFile:37)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.DedicatedServerConnection.b(SourceFile:3
0)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.t(MinecraftServer.java:5
90)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.DedicatedServer.t(DedicatedServer.java:2
26)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.s(MinecraftServer.java:4
86)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java
:419)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:5
82)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.inventor
y.CraftMetaItem cannot be cast to org.bukkit.inventory.meta.SkullMeta
        at me.virhonestum.talkheads.main.onCommand(main.java:228)
        at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44)
        ... 15 more

 

That looks like a craftbukkit ItemMeta instead of org.bukkit, org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.inventory.CraftMetaItem from your imports list and reimport the Bukkit one

 

@Chinwe
org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.inventory.CraftMetaItem is not in my imports....
These are my imports

Code:

import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.Material;
import org.bukkit.block.Block;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.inventory.Inventory;
import org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack;
import org.bukkit.inventory.meta.SkullMeta;
import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginManager;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;

 

Am I the only one who finds the thread title kind of.. disturbing?

yes, I'm childish, whatcha gonna do?

 

Assist
Haha, It would be worse if it was like "Get a players head"

 

Julian1Reinhardt

This means you're not using it on a Skull object, I believe

 

Use Material.SKULL_ITEM.

 

chasechocolate Hoolean Chinwe
Now I get a Skelleton Skull

 

Julian1Reinhardt
Set the durablility to 3 for a player head

 

Chinwe
Now when i say

Code:

ItemStack skull = new ItemStack(Material.SKULL_ITEM, 1).setDurability((short) 3);

It says "Cant convert from void to ItemStack

 

Julian1Reinhardt
To use .setDurablility(), you would have to put it on a new line, ie:
ItemStack skull = ...;
skull.setDurability();

But you can just set it in the constructor

Code:

ItemStack skull = new ItemStack(Material.SKULL_ITEM, 1, (short) 3);

 

Chinwe
Thank you sooo much It worked