Detect entity movement?

Hey is there a way to detect when an entity is walking?

EDIT: And if its sprinting

 

There isn't a bukkit event to detect entity movement.

To detect it, you should use a plugin like BKCommonLib, or you should make a repeating schedule to check for entities that are moving.

You should know that there' s a chance of a serious lag.

 

Okay so I used hashmaps to do this: the server saves the entities' location for 1.5 sec and then removes it(then repeats the same thing) but how can check if the location changed?

 

Well when you add the location and you have saved it, next time, before deletion, get the current location of entity. Then if x, y, or z are not the same as before, that means that the entity moved.

Does this help?

 

@Mr. Sandwich What are you trying to do, stop an entity from moving? Why do you need to know if an entity is moving there might be another way to do what you're trying to do.

 

Yeah but how do I check if the x y z changed?
and Xerox I need to play particles when a specific mob moves

 

@Mr. Sandwich !Location#equals(Location) means movement, or at least yaw/pitch change.

 

You can use PlayerMoveEvent, check with if (event.getPlayer() instanceof Entity) {with your code here}
I think this will do it.

 

@Minibros No you cannot, the PlayerMoveEvent only gets called when a player moves, and the If checking if it's an entity would always return true since a player is an entity