Hello, In my lobby area I've created several floating islands revolving around my center island, spawn. The idea was to make launch pads that launch you in the air to different locations. You can imagine my disappointment when finding out such a plugin does not exist for some reason. I know calculating trajectories is possible, I've seen it in many mods and modding discussion threads. Examples are a jetpack mod, portalgun mod (even more complex as it involves conserving kinetic energy). So what I'd like, is a plugin that intelligently launches a player in a direction at enough force to make him land on it. I would NOT like to see another plugin that launches them straight up in the air, teleports them, and lets them fall down as if they passed out in the middle of the flight. Honestly I'd rather give everyone jetpacks in my lobby than do this. Commands: /Launchpad (Link into worldedit if possible to set an area as a launchpad, then click the destination location. Don't really care how the commands end up - if theres a better or easier way to set up the launch pads go for it. Permissions: Break up permissions however you like but I recommend including launch.user and launch.admin permissions. Users can use the launchpads, admins can make them.
You can use the plugin lobbytools to do this: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/lobbytools/ It has many other features besides that but I think you basically define a block in the config to be the launch pad (I think redstone block is default) then you just place the block and a pressure plate on it and I think it should work. Read the plugin info cause im not 100% sure I cant remember most things about it.
Almost! Not quite right though. For one thing, it doesnt fly them to a specific spot it just flies them in the direction they walk on the pad from. Which would be fine, if a players dumb enough to fly in the wrong direction and die, so be it, he will just spawn back in and not lose anything. However, it doesnt allow me to adjust the speed over 10 or per launchpad. So I can make launchpads, but then all my islands have to be the same distance away from each other which doesn't really work well Thanks for the link though - close xP
do you have anti-cheat / anti-fly mods? they'll trigger when you launch players with enough force to get them to more than a few blocks. i ran into this when trying out some super-jump potions also, will players land in water deep enough to prevent damage? otherwise the mod will have to prevent the fall damage. you'll need config options for the spawn world, landing pads areas, or N seconds after the launch so you don't end up with a no fall damage anywhere. i'm busy with another mod, atm, but might swing back cuz this does sound fun to try out.
A couple mods handle the lack of falling damage but it'd probably be a good idea for this one to allow it as well in case someone else wants to try this and doesn't have a mod for this feature. If you decide to try it out, thanks
More Ideas: You could have a piston on the floor with a block in front of it and a sign. The sign would read: [Launch] WhateverYouWant (Destination) WhateverYouWant OR economy support Don't personally care about the economy part but I'm sure someone else could find a use for it. Basically your right click the sign, the piston activates launching you up 1 block (which would destroy the sign...DERP) and then the launch begins towards destination which you would have previously assigned by typing a command /launch destination <destname> EDIT: Opps the sign would be destroyed sothe piston and sign idea doesnt really work.
