Solved Custom Death Messages on Custom Kill Types

Hello,

So basically, I have a method of killing that is unique and not part of any of the DamageCauses.

We'll say that a custom fireball projectile (Not the Ghast Projectile) is the method of killing I do. How would I set it so I have a custom death message for it?

ex. "<Victim> came in contact with <Killer>'s ball of flame"

 

@mine2012craft

1. Create an Hashmap. Keys will be player's UUId and the values will be custom fireballs.
   
2. On EntityDamageByEntityEvent
3. If the damage is the custom fireball, and the victim is a player
4. If the player will die from this attack
   
5. Add the player and the fireball to the hashmap.
6. On PlayerDeathEvent
7. If the player was in the hashmap.
8. Set the custom death message and remove the player from the hashmap.

 

The custom fireballs are not an object. They are from BukkitRunnables that create an animating ball of flame particles that deal damage on impact with a LivingEntity.

 

@mine2012craft
Then don't do steps #2 though #5. Instead, inside the runnable, if a player is damaged and will die, add them to the hashmap.

 

How would I check if the player will die in the first place?

 

@mine2012craft
Check if the player's current health, minus the amount you are going to damage the player, is less than or equal to 0.

 

Ok, so I made the method, works great. The problem is that say someone has iron armor on, and the fireball's core damage is 7. The iron armor guy will take 4 damage, but the code will minus a hardcore 7 from the health without counting the AV, and if it equals 0, then it'll change the death message. How would I fix something like this?

 

@mine2012craft
You will need to do the calculations yourself. Use the formula found this thread:
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Armor#Defense_points

 

Forgot to respond lol.

After trial and error, I did end up successfully making my own method of it. It works fine now, thank you.