Lassoing a player

I'm trying to make it so when a player right clicks another player entity while holding a leash the player who was clicked will be launched into the air in the direction of the clicker (effectively a lasso). I'm trying to get the direction of the vector that the player will be launched but I keep running into issues. Shouldn't it be possible to just launch the player in the negative (opposite) vector of the player who clicked (I would need to also add a y vector).
Any ideas on how I could implement this?

 

@NeerDev

If you take the Locations of the both the players as Vectors and subtract them, then normalise it, you'll have a vector that points from one player to the other. You can multiply this by a constant (e.g. 5) to set the velocity that the "lassoed" player will be launched with, and then apply this Vector to the Player as their velocity.

 

@mythbusterma

Awesome, works perfectly. Thanks.

For those who are interested:

Code:

if( damagerentity instanceof Egg )
        {
            Player damagedentity = (Player) event.getEntity();
            Egg egg = (Egg)damagerentity;
            Player shooter = (Player) egg.getShooter();
            shooter.sendMessage(ChatColor.DARK_GREEN + "Your lasso launches the player towards you!");
           
            Vector ldamaged = damagedentity.getLocation().toVector();
            Vector lshooter = shooter.getLocation().toVector();
            Vector lasso = ldamaged.subtract(lshooter).normalize().multiply(-10);
           
            damagedentity.setVelocity(lasso);
           
        }

Note I used the egg for simplicity sake, works better over long distance and is barely visible at speed.