Checking if a painting was shot by an arrow, and get the player that shot it

So I had the idea to create an archery plugin for my server. I thought it would be easiest if I'd just make a painting which has a bullseye drawn on it(everyone who joins my server has a specific mod and texture pack installed) and then detect wether it was shot in bukkit.

My first intuition was to use the ENTITY_DAMAGE event. But some test and a look in the source code told me that that was only being called when it was about a LivingEntity.

Next I noticed the PaintingBreakByEntityEvent, I thought: wow, that's it! But when I use that and do a simple event.getRemover().getEntityId() it's always the same entityId. Is this a bug?

Anyone has another idea on how to do this(without a painting is also fine, but I do want some nice graphics for the thing you shoot at, red + white wool in rings would also be fine for example, but I don't know a BlockHitByProjectile event).

 

projectileHitEvent?

 

That seems to only return you the projectile, not the painting it actually hits.

 

well, get the location of the projectile, and compare it with a list of paintings location you stored along the way.

 

Yeah, could do that, but I'd rather have a solution that's a bit "nicer/cleaner"

 

I think you should listen to a PAINTING_BREAK event.

It should be something like this:

Code:java

public void onPaintingBreak(PaintingBreakEvent event) {
    if (event instanceof PaintingBreakByEntityEvent) {
        PaintingBreakByEntityEvent pEvent = (PaintingBreakByEntityEvent) event;
        if (pEvent.getRemover() instanceof Arrow) {
            //do stuff
        }
    }
}

 

@teuneboon If you use the above code, you can do

Code:java

(Projectile) pEvent.getRemover().getShooter();

 

Fixed.

 

Dont forget the following line to prevent ClassCastExceptions:

Code:java

if( pEvent.getRemover() instanceof Projectile )

[Edit]
opps, didn't notice you added it in a previous post.