Help with direction

What I am trying to do is find nearby players, and get their location relative to the player.

I know how to get nearby players, but how do I get their location relative to the player? ie (player A is 10 blocks north)

 

Locations and distances aren't the easiest of things for me, personally, but I'll see what I can do to help.
I'd definitely use locations of the blocks players are standing at (their X and Z only) then subtract the X from the Z to find the location of that player.

I believe this will do direct distance:

PHP:

p1.sendMessage(p1.getLocation().getBlock().getLocation().distance(p2.getLocation().getBlock().getLocation()));

This should give the x and z distances. You could have the plugin check whether it's direction (North, West, South, or East) depending on whether X or Z is positive or negative.

This is personally how I would go about it. This is based off of Player p1 and Player p2. Feel free to use this and play around with it.

PHP:

                    String directionx = "X";
                    String directionz = "Z";
         
                    int p1x = p1.getLocation().getBlockX();
                    int p2x = p2.getLocation().getBlockX();
 
                    int p1z = p1.getLocation().getBlockZ();
                    int p2z = p2.getLocation().getBlockZ();
 
                    int distx = java.lang.Math.abs((p1x - p2x));
                    int distz = java.lang.Math.abs((p1z - p2z));
             
                    if (p1x > p2x){
                        directionx = "West";
                    }else{
                        directionx = "East";
                    }
                    if (p1z > p2z){
                        directionz = "North";
                    }else{
                        directionz = "South";
                    }
             
                    p1.sendMessage(p2.getName() + " is " + distx + " blocks to the " + directionx + " and " + distz + " blocks to the " + directionz + ".");

I'm just stating now, I'm not sure which direction is which. You'll have to figure that out on your own. Goodluck!

 

Thanks. I'll try this.

Dude, you were dead on with the directions! Thanks!

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