Direction the Playser faces: North, South,...

Hi Guys,
I want to know how to get this Information, I can't find any solution for this in the API. I just got to the vectors, but these are not very helpfull. Thanks for Helping

 

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/find-what-way-player-is-facing.18359/

 

Thank you

 

I wrote this code because I wanted more than the 4 cardinal directions. Just pass it the Player and you'll get a human readable string with the direction. Hope it helps.

Code:

    //
    // rpGetPlayerDirection - Convert Player's Yaw into a human readable direction out of 16 possible.
    //
    public String rpGetPlayerDirection(Player playerSelf){
         String dir = "";
         float y = playerSelf.getLocation().getYaw();
         if( y < 0 ){y += 360;}
         y %= 360;
         int i = (int)((y+8) / 22.5);
         if(i == 0){dir = "west";}
         else if(i == 1){dir = "west northwest";}
         else if(i == 2){dir = "northwest";}
         else if(i == 3){dir = "north northwest";}
         else if(i == 4){dir = "north";}
         else if(i == 5){dir = "north northeast";}
         else if(i == 6){dir = "northeast";}
         else if(i == 7){dir = "east northeast";}
         else if(i == 8){dir = "east";}
         else if(i == 9){dir = "east southeast";}
         else if(i == 10){dir = "southeast";}
         else if(i == 11){dir = "south southeast";}
         else if(i == 12){dir = "south";}
         else if(i == 13){dir = "south southwest";}
         else if(i == 14){dir = "southwest";}
         else if(i == 15){dir = "west southwest";}
         else {dir = "west";}
         return dir;
    }

 

This is cool, I will add this to my Util if you don't mind

 

Don't mind at all, happy I could help.