Important EntityDamageEvent Question

Is there anyway to tell if the event actually inflicts damage on the entity? For example, if you spam click something 1000 times with an autoclicker this event will get called everytime and report damage everytime, but thanks to minecrafts "invincibility" after taking damage mechanics only one of these events will truly do damage.

How do we tell if the entity is going to actually take damage or not?

 

The entity will take damage if the following condition is met:

Code:

CraftEntity cEntity = (CraftEntity)theEntity;
if(cEntity.getHandle().noDamageTicks < cEntity.getHandle().maxNoDamageTicks/2.0F)
   //damage gets done

 

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maxNoDamageTicks can't be resolved
Any idea why?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Ah. Casting needed:

Code:

CraftEntity cEntity = (CraftEntity)theEntity;
EntityLiving entity = (EntityLiving)cEntity.getHandle();
if(entity.noDamageTicks < entity.maxNoDamageTicks/2.0F)

 

And what is this part for?

Code:

/2.0F

 

Here's a brief summary of how the damage cooldown works:

• Every time a living entity is damaged, its noDamageTicks property gets set to maxNoDamageTicks.
• Every tick, if noDamageTicks>0, the value of noDamageTicks is decreased by 1.
• When an entity later receives damage, the value of noDamageTicks is compared with maxNoDamageTicks.
• If noDamageTicks>maxNoDamageTicks/2 (first half of cooldown) then damage will only be done if the damage is greater than the last damage recieved - then the damage is the difference between the last damage and the new damage. The ticks value is not changed.
• If noDamageTicks<maxNoDamageTicks/2 (later half of cooldown) then full damage is done, ticks value is bumped up again and the cycle restarts.

Does that make sense?

 

Yeah, thanks for the reply

 

According to twitter, there was a commit 10 hours ago implementing notDamageTicks and maxNoDamageTicks etc into craftbukkit proper. You might want to move over to those at some point as its considered cleaner.