Hide and Seek Question

I am making a hide and seek plugin similar to TheHiveMC, and am wondering how they made it so players would turn solid. What happens is if you stand still for 5 seconds, the block that you are disguised as will be placed (using block changes and player.sendBlockChange()).

 

I don't understand, it sounds like you've answered your own question here. What are you having trouble with?

 

I was wondering how that game worked. Anyway, keep a timer that is reset when they move, and if it is over value, make a block there?

 

I don't know how to make a countdown timer to check if the player hasn't moved for 5 seconds.

 

xWatermelon Look at a Tutorial about Schedulers. There are many out there. The timers are called Schedulers.

 

I know how to use schedulers, but I don't know how to check if the player hasn't moved for x seconds.

 

Keep a HashMap<string,int>. The strings will be the names of all the players who should be affected by this*, and the ints will represent how many seconds that player has been standing still. Schedule a repeating task to be running all the time and repeat every 20 ticks (1 second), and every time it runs, increment every int in the hashmap by 1. Finally, listen to PlayerMoveEvent and set the player's timer back down to 0.

* always store player names as strings, not actual Player objects which can cause memory leaks.

 

xWatermelon Let a Scheduler run all the time but set the time back to 0 if the PlayerMoveEvent get's triggered.

 

I'm not exactly sure if this will work, but it might (untested):

Code:java

//In PlayerMoveEvent
final Location oldLoc = player.getLocation();
 
new BukkitRunnable(){
  int secondsLeft = 5;
 
  @Override
  public void run(){
    Location newLoc = player.getLocation();
 
    if(newLoc.equals(oldLoc)){
      if(secondsLeft == 0){
        //Turn them into a block or whatever
        this.cancel();
      } else {
        secondsLeft -= 1;
      }
    } else {
      if(secondsLeft != 5){
        secondsLeft += 1;
      } else {
        this.cancel();
      }
    }
  }
}.runTaskTimer(<plugin instance>, 20L, 20L);