Plugin Creation

Hello, I have been trying to create a plugin for a while and I have tried with videos and other things but i cannot successfully create a plugin is there anyone that would be willing to help me create a simple plugin and/or help me learn the basics of create one?

 

owlnight321
Have you tried learning Java before creating plugins?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/index.html
You can also learn Java from the YouTube channel thenewboston.

 

owlnight321

I would recommend to watch TheBCBroz on Youtube

here is the channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOBqSqnLO7Z42Y8JwgfhpRQ

I learned making a basic plugin from their videos

 

Okay i will thank you let me see if this helps me.

 

W&L-Craft owlnight321
I wouldn't go with TheBCBroz. They use bad coding practices.

Go with Pogostick29Dev.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAF3anQEEkzREsHA8yZzVhc3_GHcPnqxR

He also has various other Java tutorials.

 

TheBCBroz tutorials are probably the worst possible tutorials to follow.

 

Gater12 or even better, the wiki. It has the best tutorial <3

 

Okay well i will try with these and i will see which one works for me.

 

NO

 

So i did everything the way he said and i made sure of it but i got this any help

 

owlnight321 show us the code.

 

Sorry i am stupid here

 

I highly recommend you learn Java before Bukkit. I did the mistake of doing that and it make it 100x harder. Trust me. But you haven't imported ChatColor. Mouse over it in eclipse to import it (from org.bukkit.ChatColor) just like you did with player and stuff. The player error is there because you can only access varibles after you assign them. But since you have the sender variable use that.

 

Okay thank you and do you know of a good video or a way to learn java?

 

owlnight321 TheNewBoston really helps. Although if you only want to make plugins and not programs, which is also a pretty cool thing to do. Skip the JFrame tutorials. But it's good to learn a lot of useful methods like Random, because then you can implement that into your plugins.

 

Okay thank you i will hopefully understand all of the stuff they say

 

owlnight321 you need to import ChatColor and also you made Player player after you used player

 

Can you explain how to fix it?

 

owlnight321 yeah sure

So import chatcolor like everything else do CTRL+SHIFT+O to import or hover and click.
To fix player:
I'm going to rewrite it for you and ill make comments so you can understand

Code:java

package com.bwfcwalshy.tutorial.commands;
 
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandExecutor;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
 
public class Test implements CommandExecutor {//CommandExecutor is if its in another class
 
    public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String label, String[] args){
        if(cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("test")){
            //If the command is /test do this
            if(sender instanceof Player){
                //If its a player do this
                sender.sendMessage(ChatColor.GOLD + "Player test");
            }
            if(!(sender instanceof Player)){
                //If its console do this
                sender.sendMessage(ChatColor.GOLD + "No your console!!!");
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
}
 

This should work not tested tell me if there's a error just tahg me and ill try to fix it

 

So the thing with this and the one i have is that mine has 35 lines your has 26 and i can't copy and paste because it doesn't copy the spaces

 

owlnight321 bwfcwalshy Why don't you use else instead of line 18?

 

Don't worry, bwfcwalshy has just removed some blank lines to make his version shorter, It does exactly the same thing.

If, once you've copied it in the indentation is off, use ctrl+a to select everything then ctrl+i to fix the indentation.

If you're looking for tutorials, I'd recommend these videos from Appljuze:

 

dsouzamatt
Umm no, he also removed the onEnable and onDisable commands...

 

Oh yeah, he did . Well in that case, owlnight321 you need to replace your onCommand method with the one from bwfcwalshy and add the import

Code:java

import org.bukkit.ChatColor;

 

owlnight321

Sorry i didn't really explain it good, i said that i learned to make a basic plugin from TheBCBroz. but i switched to other tutorials because some other tutorials are way better explained.

Gater12
I really like thenewboston's videos on java thanks for that tip!

 

Your plugin.yml is in your source folder, drag it onto the entire project, so its laid out like this:

 

Why is that?

 

owlnight321 dsouzamatt TheSpherret I just quickly made it in a new class and i did put a comment over the CommandExecutor saying this is for if you want it in another class, anyhow hope i helped you just need to use the onCommand and put it in your Main class.

 

GreySwordz
They teach bad habits, such as using the deprecated Logger.getLogger("minecraft")

As well as logging onEnable and onDisable and a bunch of other stuff.