Inactive [MECH] CrowdControl v0.0.3 - The creature control plugin [1.1R3]

CrowdControl - The creature control plugin.
Version 0.0.3

New Rewrite is out! Get it at:
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/crowdcontrol/
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Yes it's back, the two plugins MobControl and CrowdControl have been merged now and I present to you on the behalf of the elBukkit team the new and improved CrowdControl! Features are still being added from both of the old plugins but i have decided that enough basic functionality is here to release it to the general public!

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Will try later, would be awesome if it turns out working. Was using mobcontrol before though had way too many issues partially with not working and partially with errors so will take a look into this.

 

Version 0.25
New database, delete your old one!

 

Uh the new database or update doesn't seem to work. I did notice thought that it does now tell you that you set the creature info. And what I mean by it doesn't work well is that creatures don't seem to spawn unless you restart the server to get them to spawn. It only spawns the creatures you set. Then after you kill them all they are gone till another server restart.
And yes I know I typed in the set creature commands right because it said "Set Creature Info!" each time. Also there is some odd long error the server sends out each time a zombie attacks me.

Code:

[WARNING] Task of 'CrowdControl' generated an exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.elBukkit.bukkit.plugins.crowd.creature.CreatureHandler.run(CreatureHandler.java:502)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.scheduler.CraftScheduler.mainThreadHeartbeat(CraftScheduler.java:138)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:389)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:312)
    at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:422)

 

It only spawning creatures you set was on purpose to prevent peoples servers getting overrun by every type of mob.
Hrm, it seems like my custom damage handler isn't canceling the default minecraft one and when u kill a mob my plugin still thinks they still are there.
And i will fix the NPE

 

is it posible to set a spawn point with only one mob?

Like a spawn point for Cows. I want to build a Farm. With an Fence with only cows one fence with only chickens and one fence with only Pigs?

 

Eventually, i started to make a rule that can do just that but i had other problems to attend to before i could finish it. The rule would allow you to define a cuboid that mobs could only spawn in.

 

that would be great thx

 

Oh, WinSock I got a question about the damage from the mobs. Is it possible to actually change the damage of the mobs and not have it go through any other plugins say invincibility or defense boost? Cause at the moment I just had god mode on for admins, but the creatures can still hurt us. Or if you have say, levelcraft and you have a defense boost because you leveled it up, it will still hurt you for the full damage set with this mod.

 

Hmmm, it will make my code a little more complex but i think i see a way to fix that too. It will be in my 0.25.01 bug fix release.

 

Cool, thank you.

 

Do I need to connect to MySQL? Because I amn't and if I install this plugin no monster/animal appears.

 

This plugin sets all mobs to disabled ad you need to re-enable them with the "set" command. It was put this way to prevent destruction of servers.

 

I've now added all monsters to my server. But there's noone. So I tried to set that rule "SpawnMaterialRule" because I thought there should be any block they must be spawned on but everytime I want to set up the rule it says: Error: argument exception
My command is: /crowd finish 0 world CHICKEN x ( x= 0-9999) and if I type instead of a number the name like "DIRT" it says: internal error and console shows many errors. Can anyone help me plz?

 

Can you show one of the "/crowd set" commands you used to turn on the spawn for one of your creatures please?

 

/crowd set CHICKEN world Passive Passive 0 0 false 5 0 25 Enabled

 

/crowd set CHICKEN world Passive Passive 0 0 false 5 0 25 true

 

Bah I look away for a moment and you answered it before me.

I do have a question @Lead2Life did it say "Set Creature Info!" when you typed it with "Enabled"? Just curious..

 

The method that i'm using returns false for any other text.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Boolean.html#valueOf(java.lang.String)

So it did set creature info but not in the way he expected

 

Hey thanks that worked for me! But however I can't set up the rule SpawnMaterialRule ( argument exception )
Yes it say "Set creature info!" when I typed it with "Enabled"

 

Released version 0.25.01

I think i fixed the argument exception for that with version 0.25.01

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

 

Ok, so just tried it. I'm like ah all the creatures are already spawning(on passive which is cool). But soon as I set the zombie to aggressive day and night along with doing 6 damage(spawn rate around 55)...He then became invincible starting lagging the server and spitting out errors for each zombie as shown below. Sorry if this is my fault with the damage handler >.<

Code:

[SEVERE] Exception in thread "Thread-16"
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE]     at com.mcbean.zombieattack.zombieattackHandler.run(zombieattackHandler.java:34)
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE]     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE] Exception in thread "Thread-18"
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE]     at com.mcbean.zombieattack.zombieattackHandler.run(zombieattackHandler.java:34)
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE]     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE] Exception in thread "Thread-21"
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE]     at com.mcbean.zombieattack.zombieattackHandler.run(zombieattackHandler.java:34)
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE]     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2011-06-14 13:32:59 [SEVERE] Exception in thread "Thread-19"
2011-06-14 13:33:00 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException
2011-06-14 13:33:00 [SEVERE]     at com.mcbean.zombieattack.zombieattackHandler.run(zombieattackHandler.java:34)

Also for anyone else, delete your old database otherwise you get some really weird bugs.

Side note I did see your boolean code, dang..I don't think they have that in C++...we are just stuck with if statments or loops for that or a few other ways but that is way less code in java.

Edit: Ok, that is a lie there is string compare for a small amount of code just for string but, I do like the java code better.

 

So I've got massive laggs too. Please fix it fast^^

 

Spawn rate is a float value, so 1.0-0.0 just FYI it may be the cause of the lag because i cannot seem to reproduce the lag

And that isn't an error with my plugin i don't think. It's an error from mcbean's zombieattack plugin.

 

Ah I see my bad. Ok, I shall try it out real quick.

 

Ok there is a lag problem too, version 0.25.02 uploaded

Opps i see debug text left over.... 0.25.03.....

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

 

Alright I was wrong...I can not test it because minecraft.net is down. I will have to test it later. Thank you for all the quick replies and updates btw

 

If its just a local testing server set online-mode: false and connect using offline mode. Thats how i tested these latest updates

Edit:
minecraft.net is back up
Edit 2:
At least there http server is

 

Hello! Me again!

Just tried the latest release and while everything is muuuuuch better now, there's still a little problem or two that I'm hoping you can resolve before we put the plugin into effect on our server.

The first is the quanitity of monsters. I like how they spawn now, but I feel that perhaps spawning more (about double) by default, or allow us to configure how many per chunk in a certain way would be incredible

The second is very minor but it takes a while for new mobs to spawn after you fly out of the area into a new area.

As soon as the monsters can be spawned more frequently and with the current low level of lag, I think it's safe to say that there's not a whole lot left to do except maybe clean up how commands are entered (it's really quite difficult for the first few hours of using the plugin, but you do get used to it).

Thanks for your continued efforts.

Edit: And perhaps a better way to use material spawning rules would actaully be to list which materials the monsters CANT spawn on, for example I would like to stop zombies spawning in water currently and that's difficult.

Edit2: Actually, there's looooads in the water so maybe just being able to make them not spawn in water will raise the count on land quite drastically.

 

Let me quickly add those changes and test to see if it does what you want

 

can anyone tell me if all the lags are gone? i dont wanna update every hour and now i droped it.