Least Laggy PlayerMoveEvent

I'm making a plugin to pretty much make player1 be in player2's shoes

What I'm using now (Just raw backbone code here):

Code:

public void onMove(PlayerMoveEvent e){
  // Player p2 is define (for the sake of readability)
  Player p = e.getPlayer();
  p2.teleport(p.getLocation);
}

This is SUPER SUPER laggy...any way around this?
Can I make it teleport more, but lag less?

 

If only the smooth teleporting feature in that one snapshot was here...

 

Seems like Bukkit's teleport method is just too slow. What you could do instead is teleport the first time, then afterwards, do p2.setVelocity(p.getVelocity()). I'm not sure how accurate that will be; you might have to teleport every 30 seconds or so in case it goes out of sync.

 

morshu9001 Gater12
I need a more async and less async way of doing this -_-
Maybe a custom event
Check if a player moves and is beingfollowed

 

If it looks a bit too jerky, you could check if the player has moved an entire block before teleporting, this will make the player teleport a lot less, and it could be more visually appealing?

 

Nosliw
Less appealing

How would. I make a move event to check every move with a certain paramater?

 

JHG0

Code:

if(event.getTo().distance(event.getFrom()) > 1) {
//player moved over 1 block
}

 

Compressions
Need it to look smooth w/ little to no lag

And I this .distanceSquared is quicker

JHG0
If you need it to look smooth, you need to use vectors, normal cancellation and location setting will cause the player to jerk.

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

 

The "smoothest" way is to give them a slowness potion, but that will screw with their FOV. Either way, you have to be wary of people using modified clients to get out of slowness/velocity changes because they're client-sided.

 

I don't think that'll work properly. That's only if the player moves one entire block within one move event, which can probably only happen if he's moving very quickly. He could check if any of the coordinates are whole numbers by modding by 0.1.

 

Also note that the playermoveevent also triggers when just looking around. So excluding yaw and pitch from location might make it smoother.

 

Try something along these lines - UNTESTED

Code:java

 
event.getPlayer().setVelocity(new Vector(0,0,0));
if (event.getFrom().getBlockX() == event.getTo().getBlockX()
                && event.getFrom().getBlockY() == event.getTo().getBlockY()
                && event.getFrom().getBlockZ() == event.getTo().getBlockZ()) {
            return;
        }
event.setTo(event.getFrom()); //For hacked clients

 

Wait, why are you setting the player's velocity to 0? That's the player he's trying to follow.

 

Lol i completely posted it in wrong topic.

 

maciekmm morshu9001 Garris0n xTrollxDudex
I'm trying to use it to catch hackers...so I need it to be smooth with pitch and yaw

Any method to have player1 "follow" player2?

 

Have you tried to "ride" the target player using the setPassenger() method?

It should be pretty smooth, but maybe not suiteable for your needs.

 

Syd
Stacks players -_-

 

Thats the point.

It allows you to follow a player without pressing any key and might be a suitable base for what you want, as the teleport methods seems too laggy.
You might get some extra stuff done in order to have a full following experience.

 

Syd
I wonder if I could set them as a passenger...and lower their position by <playerheight>

Syd

Wonder if you can do that

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

 

Maybe you can with a few tricks involving packets and such stuff, but I can't help you with it, I just wanted to throw this idea into the room. Fleshing it out would be your job.

 

Check out iControlU

 

JHG0
In case you didn't follow the lastest development news of minecraft:
In 1.8. you'll be able to "spectate" players.

 

Syd
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