Making the beacon effect

I was wondering if there is any way to trick the client into making the beacon effect visible to the player. If so, does anyone know how to do this? It would be greatly appreciated not only by me, but probably by the entire Bukkit community.

 

Jnorr44 This thread may help you with that, if I didn't understand anything wrong!

 

The only possible way as far as I'm aware is to send block updates of a beacon block and the pyramid of blocks under it somewhere, otherwise it can't be done I think, as the beacon beam is attatched to the block and will only shine when the block is on top of at least 9 iron/diamond/gold ect. blocks.

 

DarkBladee12 Thanks, but I was looking for the actual effect, not the potion effects.
Tdarnell I believe there is a boolean in the NMS tile entity that allows you to activate the beacon without the blocks. I would be fine with placing just the one block and activating it.

 

If that's possible I haven't seen it anywhere then, must have missed it either way you have to send a block update to the player, there's no way to do it without having a beacon somewhere that has transparent blocks above it. I would be interested to see if potion effects could be sent from a beacon without the pyramid below it though. (not that it is really needed since we can set player potion effects )

 

Nope it's like Tdarnell said...All client sided...

 

I understand everything is client side, however, prettyscarylib is able to activate/deactivate a beacon using the boolean "d" in TileEntityBeacon.

 

Do you have a link to that file/source? I know I saw a lib once that claimed it could achieve this....

 

CaptainBern https://github.com/SocialCraft/Pret...stirante/PrettyScaryLib/BeaconHelper.java#L59

 

Ah I see, I think you don't understand what that does. If we take a look at: https://github.com/Bukkit/mc-dev/blob/master/net/minecraft/server/TileEntityBeacon.java#L9 then see that "d" is a boolean (like you stated) but we also see that this is used for the potion effect applied to the player. This has nothing to do with the effect, only with the potions...