Detect nearby players

Trying to make a plugin for my Hunger games server, Max distance is about 40-60 Blocks
This is all I got for my "if" statement
if (other.getLocation().distance(player.getLocation()) <= maxDist) {
other.sendMessage("Someone is nearby.");
}

Can someone help me with this? Thanks

 

for(Entity entity : Entity.getNearbyEntities(arg, arg, arg)){
if(entity instanceof Player){
Player player = (Player) entity;
player.sendMessage(ChatColor.GOLD + player.getName() + "§e is nearby");
}
}

 

from my rpg plugin

Code:java

public void AlertNearby(Player player) {
for (Player p : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()) {
if (p != player && p.getWorld() == player.getWorld()
&& p.getLocation().distance(player.getLocation()) < 16)
p.sendMessage(ChatColor.DARK_RED
+ "[ALERT]"
+ ChatColor.RED
+ " "
+ player.getDisplayName()
+ " died in an area close to you and has become a zombie!");
}
}

tells the nearby players that a player died and turned to a zombie.

just change some stuff and itll work fine.

this is better from war marker's since it iterates through the online players rather then the entities that are nearby the player thus saving a fair amount of memory usage. combine this with warmaker's and itll work perfectly.

 

What do I put on Warmarker's args? on Entity.getNearbyEntities(arg, arg, arg)){

 

the radius to check for in x, y, z
I usually just have them all the same.

Entity.getNearbyEntities(5, 5, 5) would return any Entity within 5 blocks, any direction
Entity.getNearbyEntities(50, 50, 50) would return any Entity within 50 blocks, any direction

 

dont use that, that searches for ALL entities (xp orbs, drops, rain, mobs, etc), mine just searches in the online players so it saves a fair amount of memory

Code:java

 
public void AlertNearby(Player player) {
for (Player p : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()) {
if (p != player && p.getWorld() == player.getWorld()
&& p.getLocation().distance(player.getLocation()) < 25) {
player.sendMessage("shhh. your not alone.");
}
}
}
 

I just use this inside an event, but if you want it to be on its own, just impement PlayerMoveEvent evt, so itll turn out like this:

Code:java

 
public void AlertNearby(PlayerMoveEvent evt) {
Player player = evt.getPlayer();
for (Player p : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()) {
if (p != player && p.getWorld() == player.getWorld()
&& p.getLocation().distance(player.getLocation()) < 25) {
player.sendMessage("shhh. your not alone.");
}
}
}
 

Im writing this on the browser, so i havnt tested it, but it should work.

also, if you dont want it to post the message for each player in the radius, just do this:

Code:java

 
public void AlertNearby(PlayerMoveEvent evt) {
Player player = evt.getPlayer();
boolean notAlone = false;
for (Player p : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()) {
if (p != player && p.getWorld() == player.getWorld()
&& p.getLocation().distance(player.getLocation()) < 25) {
notAlone = true;
}
}
if (notAlone) {
player.sendMessage("shhh. your not alone.");
}
}
 

all these search in a radius of 25 blocks (50 by 50 square) so they fit exactly wat u want, just change the radius to wat u want.
That should work ^-^ enjoy.

 

Thanks guys! Appreciated all your help

 

np, any time.