Floating items

Hi, I was just wondering, is it possible to make items like a pickaxe float in the air above a block or something. I whant ti make a enchanting plugin where the pick will float in the air when its enchanted. Anybody know how?

 

You can do it with armorstands... You can even animate them.

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Ok il try, if possible can you send me some code example, iv never used armorstand before.

@MGlolenstine

Thats for the help and holy shit, the Euler Angles tho... can you save me some time and tell me the angle for the pick to be straight up xD

thanks again

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Summon an armorstand

Code:

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

Put an item in armorstand's hand

Code:

stand.setItemInHand(new ItemStack(Material.FISH, 1);

That's it.
You can make a stand invisible by doing

Code:

stand.setVisible(false);

And for animations you can use this

Code:

stand.setRightArmPose(<Insert EulerAngle here>);

Info on Euler Angles:
Wikipedia
Bukkit forums

Why not?

This website might help you while you wait for my answer
http://quaternions.online/

Look at @Zombie_Striker 's reply here.

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@MattTheBeast
Set the Y to 0. Then depending on the direction you want the forward bit to be facing, choose the X or Z coord and set one of those to 1,

 

Doesn't euler have 3x XYZ? I just don't understand them and I still don't get why my replies need to get approved by a moderator... -_-

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Thanks for the help, but its not the way I whant it, I whant it to look like this:

pick -> ______
|
|

on top
of block: ________
| |
| |
|_______|

Edit: oops, the spaces screwd my demo :O

like basicly I whant the pick to be straight up, where the wooden handler is looking at the block

 

Use the website I sent you before... There you'll have 3D presentation of angles... Try adding 45 degrees for the pickaxe and try inserting new angles.


P.s if you want spaces to matter, put it in [|code] blocks ok?
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@MGlolenstine
No, it does not:
https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/util/EulerAngle.html

@MattTheBeast
Can you post your code, along with what is currently happening? Also, the code syntax preserves spaces, so you can use that to "draw" the pick.

 

public static void SpawnItem(Location loc, ItemStack item, Player p)
{
EulerAngle arm = new EulerAngle(1, 0, 0);

ArmorStand as = p.getWorld().spawn(loc, ArmorStand.class);
as.setCustomName("NormalItem");
as.setCustomNameVisible(false);
as.setGravity(false);
as.setVisible(false);
as.setRemoveWhenFarAway(false);
as.setItemInHand(item);
as.setRightArmPose(arm);
as.setRemoveWhenFarAway(false);


ex how I whant the pick to be:



pick -> ______
|
|

on top
of block: ________
| |
| |
|_______|

Edit: Actually lets say the T is the pick

T
___
| _| <- thats the block


}

 

Even tho it's 00:21 for me rn
I'll make a plugin and tell you the results..

 

Thank you so much, iv been working so hard on this plugin for my friend xD

 

I'm so sorry, but it's late and I'm typing nonsense... I hope I can help you tomorrow (at least for me). Not just that... Now my eclipse got tired and it doesn't want to work anymore...

Good night, if this issue isn't resolved 'till me waking up, I'll be glad to assist again.

@timtower why do my replies have to wait for moderation? Am I on probation or something? Why do I sometimes have to wait and other times not? Please explain.

 

@MattTheBeast
you don't even need the armor stand. Just get the block location, clone it and add 0.5 Y, then drop the item at this location. A scheduler for update the position and cancel the pickupitemevent and you are done

 

I figured a way that looks nice and my plugin is almost compleate, il send a picture when I'm done, it looks really cool.

 

Does this "Warning points" system ever reset? Do I get points by double posting?

@MattTheBeast So you are done and you don't nedd my help anymore?