Solved Place block by block

Ok so I have a foreach loop for a list of locations and I am setting each one to stone, but what I want to achieve is a way to make it "animated" so the player can see the block by block building of the structure, I have tried doing scheduled delayed tasks, delayed tasks, delayed task asynchronous but none are working, there will just be a delay of when the blocks get placed, but they will all get placed all at once

 

Show us what you've tried so we can help you. I suggest having an arraylist of all the locations you want to place stone at, and have them in the order you want them to be placed. Then declare an int starting at 0, and using a scheduler with a small delay, get the location at the index of the int you declared. Then increase the int by 1 before its runs through the scheduler again.

 

But I can't do them correctly*

You use a synchronous delayed task. That is the only way you do it.

 

@mythbusterma, I tried that first but I got some error in console, I will try it again tho

 

@ZP18

Okay?

 

@mythbusterma do you mean runTaskLaterAsynchronously?

 

@ZP18

NO.

I don't mean "async," synchronous. There's a very big difference.

 

If you mean scheduleSyncDelayedTask I have tried that and it doesn't work

@mythbusterma

EDIT: Here is my code:

Code:java

for (Location block : vault){
    Bukkit.getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(plugin, new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            block.getBlock().setType(Material.STONE);
         }
     }, 10);
}

 

@ZP18 show us your code, it will help us explain what you're doing wrong, and how to implement the correct way. (Post it on http://pastebin.com/ and link here please)

 

@oceantheskatr edited my code, it is there now

 

@ZP18

That will change all the blocks half a second later.

Do you understand what the code you're writing does?

 

@mythbusterma Everything except the runnable stuff, I don't have experience with Runnables

@mythbusterma what is the time measured in? Milliseconds?

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

 

@ZP18

Why are you making one of them for every block?

 

@mythbusterma like I said I don't have experience with Runnables

 

@ZP18

You should use a repeating task instead. Only do a few every time.

 

If I do a repeating task won't it keep making that block stone even tho it is already stone?

@mythbusterma

 

@ZP18

But a different block each time.

 

Ok then, I will try when I get home, thanks @mythbusterma

 

Also Bukkit tasks operates with ticks, 20 ticks = 1 second.

 

http://pastebin.com/n70XRr1s

@mythbusterma it isn't working

 

You're creating all those tasks at the same time so they're all going to trigger one second after. You have to make the time it delays the action different for every block. You can achieve this by using a for loop that goes while X is less than vault.size() and then set the delay time to X*20.

 

@xMrPoi Thank you so much! It is working, now I would like to know how to cancel the runnable when it is done, because I want to send a message to the player when it is done, but the messages don't stop coming

 

@ZP18
boolean is done = false;
if(no more blocks && !is done){
is done = true;
Send message
}

Scheduler.cancel();

If you don't know how to use something, GOOGLE IT. Google is your friend.
CLICK HERE!

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@Zombie_Striker I know about google, one of my best friends, but I normally just ask on the forums for something, I have no scheduler variable in my code, I mean how do I do it using my code?

 

@ZP18
I think what you're looking for is something like this

Code:

for(int i = 0; i < size; i++){
Schedulers stuff {
public void run(){
ArrayList.get(i).setBlock(Block);
}

},0- delay, (20L * (i+1)) meaning ever second a new block will be placed.
}

 

@Zombie_Striker this is my code
http://pastebin.com/Qs6SbYgK

I could use the boolean method, but that would mean the task is still running therefore, it will be bad for performance, I need a way to cancel the runnable using my method

Used this method: https://bukkit.org/threads/cancel-a-repeating-task-from-another-class.296229/

Working now

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