Place/Remove Torches in a specified /command radius?

Hey guys, I'm looking for a plugin which would allow an Admin/Moderator to place torches in a specified radius to quickly light up dark underground caves/caverns & prevent monsters from spawning in them. A plugin like this would be extremely helpful for making efficient Monster Traps.

Here's what I'm looking for,

• When you type a command, the game would use an algorithm to check the brightness level of all blocks in the specified area. If any blocks are below light level (9?), it would then check to see if a torch can legitimately be placed at the location. If both checks succeed then a torch is placed.

Example:
/placetorch <radius>

Which would would place enough torches in the specified <radius> to prevent mobs from spawning.
A command to remove the torches would also be nice, if anyone decides to pick this request up.

Thank you,
Malkuno

 

I'm still looking for someone to pick this up. =)

 

Extending my desire for this plugin this plugin to be made, onto day 3!

 

Hey so I started to work on this, and I have it partially finished. So far, it places torches in a square with side length radius*2 (I can eventually do a circle, but for now this'll do, it is way easier). It also makes sure that the block is something you can place a torch on (which is not as easy as it would seem...there's no Bukkit call for it so you have to get into ugly CraftBukkit code).

Now I just have to do the checks for lightning. Never done that before, so hopefully it's not hard to do

Okee dokee, here's the new BukkitDev page for Torched.

(here's the link to the file, it's still being approved)

I'll be in the car for the next hourish, but I'll put more info on the page after that.

For a quick reference until then, the commands are:
/torched radius
and
/torched remove radius

Enjoy

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Can you make it output to the player how many it placed?

 

Awesome, I'll give it a try when I get a chance.. I greatly appreciate this.

Thank you!

 

Sry for the late reply, was out furniture shopping

I'll do that right away

Here ya go

AndyMcB1

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wristdirect
Where did you learn about light level?
I would like to know how to deal with that in my own plugins

 

Light is client side.. I was wondering this too.

Heh. Check the output for removing torches..
In the first exception
In the remove if
Torched area with x blocks

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AndyMcB1 rofl Forgot to take out debug stuff XD

I'll fix it and reupload it.

gomeow There's actually a few get light level methods for blocks. You can check their current light level, their light level from other blocks (like torches) and their light level from the sky.