Head Item vector and armor stand lay

Hello, I've been trying to add a vector to the item in the head here:

Code:

            Player player = event.getPlayer();
            Location loc = player.getLocation();
            Location l2 = new Location(player.getWorld(), loc.getX(), loc.getY()-1, loc.getZ());
            l2.setDirection(l2.getDirection());
            ArmorStand stand = player.getLocation().getWorld().spawn(l2, ArmorStand.class);
            stand.setBasePlate(false); 
            stand.setVisible(false);
            stand.setGravity(false);
            ItemStack head = new ItemStack(Material.IRON_SWORD, 1);
            stand.setHelmet(head);

Any idea how can I add a vector so sword looks like lying?
Also how can I make an armor stand lay?
Thanks.

 

Code:

l2.setDirection(l2.getDirection());

This is unnecessary. Youre setting the direction to what it already is.

Code:

ArmorStand stand = player.getLocation().getWorld().spawn(l2, ArmorStand.class);

Why do you do player.getLocation again? You already created a loc variable which is the player's location. You can just do

Code:

ArmorStand stand = loc.getWorld().spawn(l2, ArmorStand.class);

 

@MisterMel Thx for advice. I supose that for what Im searching for is direction since I did it to the direction player is looking.

 

@danichef Im pretty sure that you need to edit the NBT data of the armorstand.
Here is a post about that:
https://bukkit.org/threads/entity-nbt-tags-manipulation.135199/

 

Not pretty sure how to use it and as they said its not really the best thing to experiment with....