Easy NBT Tags for Colored Armor and Player Heads

Hi! I heard you wanted to use colored armor ||/&& player heads! It is very easy. You must add CraftBukkit into your Java Build Path though.
Colored Armor:
Copy this method into your main plugin class:

Code:

public ItemStack setColor(ItemStack item, int color){
        CraftItemStack craftStack = null;
        net.minecraft.server.ItemStack itemStack = null;
        if (item instanceof CraftItemStack) {
        craftStack = (CraftItemStack) item;
        itemStack = craftStack.getHandle();
        }
        else if (item instanceof ItemStack) {
        craftStack = new CraftItemStack(item);
        itemStack = craftStack.getHandle();
        }
        NBTTagCompound tag = itemStack.tag;
        if (tag == null) {
        tag = new NBTTagCompound();
        tag.setCompound("display", new NBTTagCompound());
        itemStack.tag = tag;
        }
   
        tag = itemStack.tag.getCompound("display");
        tag.setInt("color", color);
        itemStack.tag.setCompound("display", tag);
        return craftStack;
    }

And to color armor, you do something like this:

Code:

inventory.addItem(setColor(new ItemStack(Material.LEATHER_HELMET), 0xhexadecimal));

Player Heads:
Copy this into main class:

Code:

public ItemStack setOwner(ItemStack iitem, String owner){
        net.minecraft.server.ItemStack item = null;
        CraftItemStack stack = null;
        stack = new CraftItemStack(iitem);
        item = stack.getHandle();
        NBTTagCompound tags = item.tag;
        tags = item.tag = new NBTTagCompound();
        if(owner != null && !owner.equals("")) {
            tags.setString("SkullOwner", owner);
        }
        return stack;
    }

And once again to use it do:

Code:

inventory.addItem(setOwner(new ItemStack(Material.SKULL_ITEM, 1, (short)3), nameOfHeadGiven));

Thanks for viewing!
william9518

 

Even easier now, that the Bukkit ItemMeta API has gone live. With the latest Bukkit/CraftBukkit builds:

PHP:

public ItemStack setOwner(ItemStack item, String owner) {
  SkullMeta meta = (SkullMeta) item.getItemMeta();
  meta.setOwner(owner);
  item.setItemMeta(meta);
  return item;
}


And similarly for armour dyeing, book items, maps & potions.

http://jd.bukkit.org/apidocs/org/bukkit/inventory/meta/ItemMeta.html

 

desht How long is it expected to take before firework star and firework metadatas are implemented? They took their sweet time doing it for these...

 

Thx for the update

 

So 1.4.6 is out... can't figure out how to create fireworks in code. I'm guessing it's something similar NBTTag?

 

If you find out, I would apreciate it if you messaged me