Solved Location.getNearbyEntities() method?

Is there a good way to do this? At the moment, I have just spawned in an Item at the Location I want then use Item.getNearbyEntities() then Item.remove();

This isn't really a problem but I want to do it a better way as I feel this is not the best way and also it's not the best as sometimes you can see the item spawned in for a tiny bit.

Thanks for any help

(I would loop through all entities in the world then check the distance to the location i want but that could be laggy in a world with a lot of entities right?)

 

Loop through the items in the world and check the distance.

Make sure you compare with distanceSquared() and your radius squared, as the distance() method uses expensive sqrt() operations.

 

Garris0n would that be laggy at all even if there were a lot of entities?

 

Perhaps if there were enough it would be noticeable, but there's not exactly an alternative. What do you think the Entity#getNearbyEntities() method does?

 

Garris0n hmm I'm guessing the same thing as your solution but uses the parameters as the distance.

 

Vote on me!

https://github.com/Bukkit/Bukkit/pull/1068

You can also steal my intermediate code if you want, but it's an ugly reflection thing:

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicLi...e/bukkit/utility/CompatibilityUtils.java#L376

 

In the end, yeah. I tried to trace what the method does once and it's quite a lot of stuff involving hitboxes. I wouldn't be surprised if just looping through was more efficient, actually, although you don't get to use a box.

 

NathanWolf Garris0n alright thanks guys (y)