Rotate mob/player

Is there a way to rotate a mob or a player that I've spawned to the world?
I can only see how to set X, Y, Z, Yaw and Pitch.

Maybe there's a method in the minecraft.server package that you know of?

Any help would be appreciated, if you have hacks or a clean solution, anything.

Thanks.

 

Yaw is for horizontal rotation, pitch for vertical rotation. Use them to rotate mobs/players.

 

Yes. But when changing Yaw they turn their head. And I can't figure out to what value to set on yaw to make the playe rotate to a certain Direction like N, E, S, W. Any help on that would be great.

 

Are you using player.setYaw() or Location.setYaw()?

 

player.setYaw()

Actually I'm using se.minecraft.server.EntityPlayer.

EntityPlayer.c(x, y, z, yaw, pitch);

 

Try using location.setYaw(), might fix your issue.

 

What values does Yaw accept? Is it Radians, Degrees or what unit is it?

 

Degrees, pretty sure. 360 - negative 360 (I believe it's based on orientation). But in programming, it's best just to try stuff out .

 

Yaw is in degrees, but watch out, because it's not just 0 to 360, but its a float and minecraft can easily return -3649.45, dunno why it's like that or if it was not only a bukkit thing at the time, just so you know.

 

Yeah, yaw can be funny like that :S. I tend to work with it by multiplying it by a certain number...

 

To get the absolute angle you can do: angle = getYaw() % 360.
I'm not sure about what values you should have for different compass directions but you can just check it by looking north and checking the yaw value (after % 360). Basically each direction (N NE E SE etc...) should have a 45 degrees range.

 

You are forgetting negative numbers...

Code:

String facing[] = {"W", "NW", "N", "NE", "E", "SE", "S", "SW"};
double yaw = ((loc.getYaw()+22.5) % 360);
if (yaw < 0) yaw = 360 + yaw;
player.sendMessage("Facing " + facing[(int)(yaw / 45)]);