Setting Creature Velocity

So I am trying to make it so that on an event it spawns a mob and sets its velocity, at the moment is spawns the squid but does not set its velocity, I have tried changin it to entitytype and creaturetype but nothing works, any pointers?

Code:java

private ItemStack setMeta(ItemStack material, String name, String lore) {
        ItemStack i = new ItemStack(material);
        ItemMeta im = i.getItemMeta();
        im.setDisplayName(name);
        im.setLore(Arrays.asList(lore));
        i.setItemMeta(im);
        return i;
 
    }
 
    private ItemStack BatBlaster = setMeta(new ItemStack(Material.IRON_BARDING), (ChatColor.GOLD
            +  "Squid Blaster!"), (ChatColor.DARK_GREEN + "Right Click To Fire A Squid!"));
 
 
    private List<Player> NoBat = new ArrayList<Player>();
 
 
 
    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerSquidtLaunch(PlayerInteractEvent event) {
 
        Player player = event.getPlayer();
        Mob squid = Mob.SQUID;
 
 
        if (squid == null)
        {
          return;
        }
 
        if(!(player.getItemInHand().equals(BatBlaster)) && (event.getAction() == Action.RIGHT_CLICK_AIR)) return;
        if(player.getItemInHand().equals(BatBlaster) && (event.getAction() == Action.RIGHT_CLICK_AIR)) {
            if(NoBat.contains(player)) {
                player.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "You Must Wait 10 Seconds Before Using The Bat Blaster.");
                return;
            }
 
 
            player.getLocation().getWorld().spawn(player.getLocation(), Squid.class).setVelocity(player.getLocation().getDirection().multiply(2));
 
 
 
        }
 
 
 
    }

 

Try instead of
player.getLocation().getDirection()
player.getEyeLocation().getDirection()

 

Bram0101

Nope it doesn't work I've tried loads

 

Maybe try to spawn it, and wait a tick and then set his velocity

 

Bram0101

How would I do that? make a delayed task? And I don't think I can seperate the line, it needs to be all on one line ¬_¬

 

This is an example, I don't know a 100% if it works.
<syntax=java>
final Squid squid = player.getLocation().getWorld().spawn(player.getLocation(), Squid.class);
Bukkit.getServer().getScheduler();
scheduler.scheduleSyncDelayedTask(this, new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
squid.setVelocity(player.getEyeLocation().getDirection().multiply(2));
}
}, 20L);
</syntax>

 

yewtree8 Look at these two lines of code then think about it for a second.

Code:

if(!(player.getItemInHand().equals(BatBlaster)) && (event.getAction() == Action.RIGHT_CLICK_AIR)) return;
if(player.getItemInHand().equals(BatBlaster) && (event.getAction() == Action.RIGHT_CLICK_AIR)) {

 

xTigerRebornx

I feel like noob D: what is wrong?....

EDIT: It is called "bat blaster" because it was originally for bats, but I changed it to squids, and if i wanted to change it I would have to go through all 12 class files and that is bleh

@Bram0101

It doesn't work, event schedulers don't work for me ¬_¬

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

 

yewtree8 well this line:

Code:java

 if(!(player.getItemInHand().equals(BatBlaster)) && (event.getAction() == Action.RIGHT_CLICK_AIR)) return;

returns out of the method if the item in the players hand is not a bat blaster and if they right click air. Just remove the check for the action.

 

yewtree8 I read those lines wrong, disregard that comment.
The lines are still redundant (since you are just checking for the same thing twice)
But, you shouldn't use ItemStack#equals() for comparison
http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/src-html/org/bukkit/inventory/ItemStack.html#line.302
It goes through all of the checks shown there, including damage and amount. You'd be better of using ItemStack#isSimilar(), or checking if the ItemMeta of the two stacks are equal