Solved Quick question about ProjectileHitEvent

Alright so I am trying to do code for when a player gets hit by a snowball, they get healed x amount of hearts. The two ways I figured I could do this would be with either a ProjectileHitEvent or EntityDamageByEntityEvent. My first thought was to go with the projectile event since it seemed to make more sense, but I have a few questions. So for the event.getEntity who that be the projectile or the Entity that was hit by the Projectile? Basically I just want to know how I would get the project that was used in the event and the player that was hit by said projectile.

So after that I tried going with the EntityDamageByEntityEvent but ran into a few questions there too. I am able to get the player damaged, the player who damaged the player, but I can not seem to get the method of how they damaged them to check if it was by a snowball or not. Would it count as the getDamager since the snowball was thrown? or would that still count as the player that throw the snowball?

 

Prothean_IGS The Snowball would represent getDamager(), and the player who launched the Snowball would be the Snowball's getShooter().

 

ProjectileHitEvent is not specific to another entity getting hit. If you throw a snowball at the wall, the event will be called. I recommend you use EntityDamageByEntityEvent instead. You can tell if it was a snowball if you test if the entity involved in the event was an instance of a Snowball.

 

The_Doctor_123 Compressions So if I use the EntityDamageByEntityEvent there is no option for getShooter, meaning the person hit would be the getEntity? The snowball would be the getDamager? Or would the getDamager be the person who threw the snowball since the is no getShooter?

Sorry, I'm just a little confused with this event

 

Prothean_IGS The Snowball would be the damager, but if you casted the damager to a snowball, you can call getShooter() on it and get the entity that launched the snowball.

 

Prothean_IGS Basically, the event.getDamager() will be the Snowball, and the event.getEntity() will be the one that got hit by the snowball. Once you cast the damager as a snowball, then you will have an option to run snowball.getShooter(), returning the shooter of the snowball.

 

Oh, alright that makes sense now, thanks a lot guys!

 

Wolfey another quick question. What should I cast the snowball to? Like when I go to get a player involved I cast it to (Player), should I use like (Entity) or is there something else I should cast it to?

Alright so this is what I have so far, and when I test it, absolutely nothing happens.

here the code:

Code:java

    @EventHandler
    public boolean onEntityDamageByEntity (EntityDamageByEntityEvent event) {
        Player targetPlayer = (Player) event.getEntity();
        Projectile object = (Projectile) event.getDamager();
        Player player = (Player) object.getShooter();
        // Checking to see if the projectile was a snowball
        if (object.getEntityId() == 11 && targetPlayer instanceof Player) {
            player.sendMessage("Working, check check check");
        }
 
        return false;
    }

If I did it right, it should check to see if the projectile is a snowball and if the player hit is a player, if both are true then it should send the debug message, but it does not.

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

 

Prothean_IGS I don't think that's how you use entity ids. Use this:

Code:java

 
	@EventHandler
	public void onDamage(EntityDamageByEntityEvent e) {
		if(e.getEntity() instanceof Player && e.getDamager() instanceof Snowball) {
			Player p = (Player) e.getEntity();
			Snowball snowball = (Snowball) e.getDamager();
			// do stuff
		}
	}
 

Also why do you have a return false?

 

Ah yes thank you, that did work. And I have return false because I used boolean instead of void. For some reason when I was using void on an event with another plugin I was making it would work no matter what, even if the if statement was false.

 

Prothean_IGS The_Doctor_123 how would you get the name of the shooter?

 

MoeMix it would just be:

Code:java

Projectile object = (Projectile) event.getDamager();
        Player player = (Player) object.getShooter();
String playername = player.getName();

 

Ah yes, simple enough