Snowballs and Other Projectiles

I created a redmine post about projectiles...

http://redmine.bukkit.org/issues/34

And it was eventually closed saying everything was working but I cannot find the hooks to tell when someone is hit with a snowball...

Also does anyone else think the javadocs should be clearer and more complete?

http://javadoc.lukegb.com/Bukkit/

 

I had a similar issue making my in-progress snowball tag game.

Code:

@Override
public void onEventDamageByProjectile(EntityDamageByProjectileEvent event) {

}

in the EntityListener class is called when hit by a snowball.

Code:

if (event.getProjectile() instanceof Snowball) {
     //Code here
}

Will run if the projectile is a snowball.

Other things to know:

Code:

((Snowball)event.getProjectile()) //allows you to call snowball specific functions

Code:

event.getDamager() //gets the person who threw the snowball

Hope this helps
--- merged: Jan 30, 2011 8:23 PM ---
to answer the request's questions:

when: when onEntityDamageByEntity() is called
where:

Code:

event.getPlayer().getLocation()

who:

Code:

event.getPlayer()

 

http://javadoc.lukegb.com/Bukkit/d3...1entity_1_1EntityDamageByProjectileEvent.html

EntityDamageByProjectileEvent does not contain getPlayer()

Would getEntity() get the damaged player?

Also is there a way to just return "EntityDamageByProjectileEvent (Entity damager, Entity damagee, Entity projectile, DamageCause cause, int damage)" that back to server? Or must you use the functions?

 

You can convert an entity to player with this code

Player p = (Player)event.getEntity();
If you use the search function you will find all your answers

 

First you'd want to make sure that the Entity is an instance of Player before you cast it as one. It will throw an error otherwise.

 

entity = event.getentity();
if (entity instaceofplayer){
//the entity is a player do stuff
}