Solved Help detecting block at projectile hit

[Akaramine]

Using code provided in documentation examples.

on projectile hit:
    if {gameset.%shooter%} is true:
        set {_block} to the block at location 0.5 in front of the projectile
        if {_block} is air:
            set {_block} to the block at location 0.1 behind the projectile
        console command "tm amsg %shooter% %{_block}%"

It seems to nearly always return air. The weird part is this worked for a few minutes. Would sometimes return air, but it was mostly correct. But after a few minutes, it got to the point where it always returns "air" as the block.

I have also tried using block at event-location with the same results

Is there a better way to get this?

Thanks for any help!

 

[ShaneBee]

using 1 instead of 0.1 worked better for me

if you want to see where {_block} is when testing then just set it to a different block. ex:

on projectile hit:
    set {_block} to the block at location 1 in front of the projectile
    set the block at {_block} to obsidian

 

[ShaneBee]

using 1 instead of 0.1 worked better for me

if you want to see where {_block} is when testing then just set it to a different block. ex:

on projectile hit:
    set {_block} to the block at location 1 in front of the projectile
    set the block at {_block} to obsidian

Thanks for the reply.

Still being really inaccurate. Surely there's a better way to gath what block you hit with a projectile?

 

[ShaneBee]

Thanks for the reply.

Still being really inaccurate. Surely there's a better way to gath what block you hit with a projectile?

The ProjectileHitEvent has a getHitBlock method in newer versions, so, you could do the following with Skript-Mirror:

on projectile hit:

    if event.getHitBlock() is set:

        set {_block} to event.getHitBlock()

Other thing you can try is this if you don't want Skript-Mirror:

on projectile hit:

    while block 0.1 in front projectile is air:
   
        set {_block} to block 0.1 in front projectile
        wait 1 tick

 

[ShaneBee]

thanks i'll give these a try. I'm unfamiliar with skript-mirror, i'll check it out

 

[ShaneBee]

thanks i'll give these a try. I'm unfamiliar with skript-mirror, i'll check it out

Skript-Mirror is a kinda new addon which let's you do Reflection in Skript, that means you can use java methods in a Skript, which is useful for this kind of cases where there is no addon with a proper implementation of the requested thing. It's also useful for do hooks in another plugins.

Another thing, the above code that uses a while loop could work without the wait, but better to put it there just to be sure it won't crash your server (while loops without a wait can crash your server if you use Bukkit methods (methods that modify the world in some way, although that one doesn't) in them)

 

[ShaneBee]

the while statement was still not accurate. But I downloaded skript-mirror. Amazing. It's perfect.

even when my statement above was working, if i hit the exact corner of the block it would be air. But with the java call and skript-mirror it's flawless every time.
I'm not really familiar with programming or java. But I could see this coming in super handy. especially with the the calls to other plugins.

Thanks so much!