Rainbow Sheep

Hey guys. Im wondering, what is the easiest way to spawn randomly colored sheep at the players location?
Ive looked many places and can't find how seep coloring works.

Any Ideas

 

World#spawnEntity(Location, EntityType) to spawn the sheep, which will return an Entity. Cast it to a Sheep and use the Sheep#setColor(DyeColor) method on it.

 

How do i make the coloring random?
OffLuffy

 

This will spawn a black sheep at 'loaction' with name 'name'

 

Not tested, but I would likely have a method to fetch a random int, and get a value from DyeColor.values() using that int.

i.e.

Code:java

DyeColor randColor = DyeColor.values()[ rand(0, DyeColors.values().length-1) ];
public int rand(int min, int max) { return min + (int)(Math.random() * ((max - min) + 1)); }

setColor(DyeColor), not setDyeColor(DyeColor)
Sheep extends Colorable

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

 

Guys - Can i ask you to review my code in a minuet?
OffLuffy

 

I pulled this from an old forums post. Never messed with sheep before.

 

Posting your attempt is usually preferable, to help us understand what you've managed so far. I'd say yes, although this forum community is generally against 'spoon feeding' so we likely won't do too much of the work for you XP

I haven't either, lmao. Just looked up the JavaDocs for most of it.

 

Basically, I need a different colored sheep to spawn at the players location every 1/2 second.
OffLuffy
SleepyDog


package XCraft;

import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.DyeColor;
import org.bukkit.Material;
import org.bukkit.entity.EntityType;
import org.bukkit.entity.LivingEntity;
import org.bukkit.entity.Sheep;
import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.block.Action;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerInteractEvent;
import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;
import org.bukkit.scheduler.BukkitScheduler;

public class NyanSheep {

DyeColor randColor = DyeColor.values()[ rand(0, DyeColor.values().length-1) ];
public int rand(int min, int max) { return min + (int)(Math.random() * ((max - min) + 1)); }

@EventHandler
public void onPlayerInteract(final PlayerInteractEvent evt) {
if (evt.getAction().equals(Action.RIGHT_CLICK_BLOCK)) {
if (evt.getClickedBlock().getType() == Material.BOOKSHELF) {

@SuppressWarnings("unused")

BukkitScheduler scheduler = Bukkit.getServer().getScheduler(); {
((BukkitScheduler) new NyanSheep()).scheduleSyncDelayedTask((Plugin) this, new Runnable() {
public void run() {
LivingEntity entity = (LivingEntity) Bukkit.getWorld("world").spawnEntity(evt.getPlayer().getLocation(), EntityType.SHEEP);
entity.setCustomName("name");

Sheep sheep = (Sheep) Bukkit.getWorld("world").spawnEntity(evt.getPlayer().getLocation(), EntityType.SHEEP);
sheep.setCustomName("name");
sheep.setColor(DyeColor.BLACK);
}
}, 20L);
}
}

}
}
}

 

If you wrap that in

Code:

[syntax=java] and [/syntax]

it's a bit easier to read XD

Also, 20L is one second in ticks. 10L is half a second.

 

So i know what i am looking at.

Code:java

package XCraft;
 
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.DyeColor;
import org.bukkit.Material;
import org.bukkit.entity.EntityType;
import org.bukkit.entity.LivingEntity;
import org.bukkit.entity.Sheep;
import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.block.Action;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerInteractEvent;
import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;
import org.bukkit.scheduler.BukkitScheduler;
 
public class NyanSheep {
 
DyeColor randColor = DyeColor.values()[ rand(0, DyeColor.values().length-1) ];
public int rand(int min, int max) { return min + (int)(Math.random() * ((max - min) + 1)); }
 
@EventHandler
public void onPlayerInteract(final PlayerInteractEvent evt) {
if (evt.getAction().equals(Action.RIGHT_CLICK_BLOCK)) {
if (evt.getClickedBlock().getType() == Material.BOOKSHELF) {
 
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
 
BukkitScheduler scheduler = Bukkit.getServer().getScheduler(); {
((BukkitScheduler) new NyanSheep()).scheduleSyncDelayedTask((Plugin) this, new Runnable() {
public void run() {
LivingEntity entity = (LivingEntity) Bukkit.getWorld("world").spawnEntity(evt.getPlayer().getLocation(), EntityType.SHEEP);
entity.setCustomName("name");
 
Sheep sheep = (Sheep) Bukkit.getWorld("world").spawnEntity(evt.getPlayer().getLocation(), EntityType.SHEEP);
sheep.setCustomName("name");
sheep.setColor(DyeColor.BLACK);
}
}, 20L);
}
}
 
}
}
}
 

 

So will i work?

 

You dont need to set the name of the sheep if you don't want to.
If you want to look good, there is a name you can set the sheep to and it will change color every 0.5 seconds.

 

Why are you initializing a scheduler variable, then trying to get one by initializing the NyanSheep class?

You probably want to do scheduler.scheduleSyncDelayedTask()

You also seem to be just copying and pasting a lot of code without understanding it. Much of it is for example and not necessary.

 

jeb_ ??

 

^^^ that works lawl

 

Also, will they be random colored everytime they spawn?

 

Ignore everything, just spawn a sheep with the name 'jeb_' and everything will look awesome.

 

Maybe try setting the sheeps name to "jeb_" in the custom name. It might tie in with Vanilla

 

and finally, how can i cancel the task after 8 seconds and kill all the sheep?

 

Not likely. The sheep's color doesn't technically change, it's a client-side effect, but the sheep's color is technically always the same. The client just sort of ignores the color and uses the smooth color transition. If the sheep is sheared, it won't be random.

 

thats fine read my last comment.

 

Use the scheduler as you have been and use the remove() method for the Sheep. Note that when accessing variables outside a scheduler block from within it, the variable needs to be declared final.

 

^ What he said

 

ThatCoffeeBean
Set the name to jeb_ but set 'setCustomNameVisible(boolean)' to false.