Vehicle Moving Distance

Hey, So the plugin I am making consists of a section where I need to allow a player to get into a boat, and sail across the ocean, but when he gets out, the code will automatically figure out how many blocks he traveled in that period of time, and will log it. My struggle is getting the code for finding the distance of blocks he traveled.

Please help me if you can!

Thank~

 

Well, if you know the starting and finishing locations (which you've presumably recorded in the VehicleEnterEvent/VehicleExitEvent handlers), it's just a matter of using Pythagoras's theorem in 3 dimensions:

PHP:

int distance = Math.sqrt( Math.pow(startX - endX, 2) + Math.pow(startY- endY, 2) + Math.pow(startZ - endZ, 2) );


Whether you use integer or double arithmetic is up to you, and how precise you need your answer to be.

 

VehicleEnterEvent/VehicleExitEvent handlers), it's just a matter of using Pythagoras's theorem in 3 dimensions:

int distance = loc1.distance(loc2);

 

Doh, of course Totally forgot there was a Bukkit method for it.