Spawning Player Entities.

I have googled over and over, even searched the devpage with it's search engine, trying out different keywords.
The only threads I found gave a few possible solutions, but not actually telling you how to do it.

Those who have tried to spawn player entities using

.spawn(location, EntityType.PLAYER.getEntityClass());
.spawnEntity(location, EntityType.PLAYER);

know that, even though those work with EntityType.COW or EntityType.PIG,
using EntityType.PLAYER would give an error :

Code:java

14:53:09 [INFO] xigsag issued server command: /spawnplayer
14:53:09 [SEVERE] null
org.bukkit.command.CommandException: Unhandled exception executing command 'spaw
nplayer' in plugin PlayerEntity v0.1
at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:46)
at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:18
9)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServe
r.java:523)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerCon
nection.java:962)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.chat(PlayerConnection.j
ava:880)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java
:837)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.Packet3Chat.handle(SourceFile:49)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:296
)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerConnection.e(PlayerConnection.java
:116)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.ServerConnection.b(SourceFile:37)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.DedicatedServerConnection.b(SourceFile:3
0)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.t(MinecraftServer.java:5
90)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.DedicatedServer.t(DedicatedServer.java:2
26)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.s(MinecraftServer.java:4
86)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java
:419)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:5
82)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot spawn an entity for org.bu
kkit.entity.Player
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.CraftWorld.spawn(CraftWorld.java:1024)
 
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.CraftWorld.spawn(CraftWorld.java:792)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.CraftWorld.spawnEntity(CraftWorld.java
:339)
at xig.playerentity.main.onCommand(main.java:17)
at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44)
... 15 more

Is nobody curious about how Citizens did it?

Hoping someone could share with me, and others how this is done.

 

Take a look at this thread.

 

xigsag
I made a utility class, it does require some NMS importing but it theoretically should work.

PHP:

public class NPCSpawner{

        List<Utilityception> npcs = new ArrayList<Utilityception>();

        public NPCSpawner(Player p){

               Location l = p.getLocation();
               String s = ""
               WorldServer wS = ((CraftWorld) l.getWorld()).getHandle();

               NPCthing t = new NPCthing(((CraftServer) Bukkit.getServer()).getServer(), wS, s, new PlayerInteractManager(wS));

               t.setPositionRotation(l.getX(), l.getY(), l.getZ(), l.getYaw(), l.getPitch());

               wS.addEntity(t);

               Utilityception u = new NPCUtilities(t);

               u.setNum(npcs.size() + 1);
               ncps.add(u);

               return u;
        }

        private class NPCthing extends EntityPlayer{

                public NPCthing(MinecraftServer se, World w, String s, PlayerInteractManager mng){
                        super(se, w, s, mng);
                }
        }

        private class NPCUtilities extends Utilityception{

                public NPCUtilities(NPCthing thing){
                        super(thing);
                }

                public void animateArmSwing() {
                        ((WorldServer) getEntity().world).tracker.a(getEntity(), new Packet18ArmAnimation(getEntity(), 1));
                }

                public void actAsHurt() {
                        ((WorldServer) getEntity().world).tracker.a(getEntity(), new Packet18ArmAnimation(getEntity(), 2));
                }

                public void setItemInHand(Material m, short damage) {
                        ((HumanEntity) getEntity().getBukkitEntity()).setItemInHand(new ItemStack(m, 1, damage));
                }
        }

        private class Utilityception{

                Entity ent;
                int id;

                public Utilityception(Entity ent){
                        this.ent = ent;
                }

                public Entity getEntity(){
                        return ent;
                }
                
                public void getId(){
                        return id;
                }
                public void setId(int id){
                        this.id = id;
                }

                public void remove(Utilityception util){
                        if(ncps.get(util) != null){
                                Utilityception ncp = ncps.get(util);
                                ncps.remove(util);
                                ncp.removeFromWorld();
                        }
                }
                public void remove(int id){
                        for(Utilityception u : npcs){
                                if(u.getId().equals(id){
                                        Utilityception ncp = ncps.get(u);
                                        ncps.remove(u);
                                        ncp.removeFromWorld();
                                }
                        }
                }
        }
}

 

This is what I was hoping for. Thanks.

xTrollxDudex
I couldn't understand 80% of what you wrote due to all the errors, but I pretty much got the jist of it.
But tested it and it failed.
Got the same error, PLUS it crashed the server. (Thank god it was just a localhost test server.)

Anymore ideas?

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

 

xigsag
90% of your errors were probably import errors because this code is really messily done.
The basic idea is the spawn an entity from a class that extends EntityPlayer. Good luck.

 

xTrollxDudex
Yeah, about that. I did try to make a class that extended EntityPlayer, and I did try to spawn that in, but that didn't work either.

 

xigsag
Try looking at Jacek 's post in the resources section, it is titled "Changing the behavior of mobs" it does have a part on spawning your custom mob

 

xTrollxDudex
Alright then, onto a different topic, could you tell me how I could FREEZE a mob entity?

It's late where I am, so I'll be going off. So I would normally check this post in about 10-12 hours time.

 

xigsag
The only real way is to teleport them back to the same location if they moved with a timer. Maybe with some nms but I'll look it up

 

I have taken a few peeks at Citizens's source code, RemoteEntities's source code, and found that their custom EntityPlayer extended classes require network managers. For Citizens, they created empty sockets and an empty network handler.

I have no idea how to do that, but I'll try to decipher that on my own. Wish me luck.