Getting the block in front of a player

I'd like to get the block that's in front of a player (in front of the feet location).
There was a thread in 2012 about this issue but unfortunately getting the target block won't work in my situation.

Do you guys have any idea what I could do?

 

Here's how I would do it. Calculate the direction from the player's Yaw value and get the block that way. Like this:

Code:java

int yaw = (int)player.getLocation().getYaw()+45;
while(yaw<0)
    yaw+=360;
while(yaw>360)
    yaw-=360;
int direction = yaw/90; // this will be the same direction number that F3 mode shows
Block b = player.getLocation().getBlock();
switch(direction)
{
    case 0: b=b.getRelative(BlockFace.SOUTH); break;
    case 1: b=b.getRelative(BlockFace.WEST);  break;
    case 2: b=b.getRelative(BlockFace.NORTH); break;
    case 3: b=b.getRelative(BlockFace.EAST);
}

You could change the math so that it can get diagonals too if you need it.

 

St3venAU Thanks. Adding to this question: How would I get what direction a player's moving to?

 

If you are doing this while the player is moving, you can use the PlayerMoveEvent, and then get the difference between getFrom() and getTo() (I think the methods are called). Then, you can use a couple of trigonometric functions to get the angle at which they're actually moving, and apply the same logic as above with their head yaw.

 

You can also get the direction a player is moving at any time with player.getVelocity(). Again you would have to do some maths to extract a direction from the vector.