Player velocity returning strange values

I'm trying to simply get a player's velocity vector. I'm calling playerObject.getVelocity(), and just to check the values I'm printing them out. The values are always very, and the X and Z values are always 0 unless I'm in the air. More than that, when I'm on the ground, my Y velocity reads as a small negative number. What's the deal with this?

 

What update are you using? I think it's a problem with the version of Bukkit you have.

From what I can guess, the y is caused by the player constantly trying to go into the ground, while the XZ is a bug from the version you're using.

 

I've tried with Bukkit 1.8R1 and Spigot 1.8.3. Both ways it exhibits the same behavior.

 

I'm still having major issues with this. Does anybody have any ideas?

 

@SaxSalute I believe that's the intended behavior of Entity#getVelocity?

Anyway, what are you trying to do, maybe there is a different solution other than using this specific vector.

 

I'm trying to reduce knockback by scaling player velocity after a hit.

Code:

@EventHandler
    public void onDamage(EntityDamageEvent event) {
        final Entity damaged = event.getEntity();
        final SGPlayer p = getKitPlayer(damaged, this);

        //If the player is a Berserker
        if (p != null) {
            Bukkit.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(MinecadeSG.getPlugin(), new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    float multiplier = 1;
                
                    System.out.println(damaged.getVelocity());
                    Vector knockback = damaged.getVelocity().multiply(multiplier);
                    damaged.setVelocity(knockback);
                }
            }, 1L);
        }
    }

I know that won't scale knockback, but that's what I was testing. What it's doing is freezing players in place on hit because the velocity it gets is 0 in X and Z.

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