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REQUEST: Placeholder for Viewed Block #59

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AuWiMo opened this issue Jul 11, 2018 · 4 comments
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REQUEST: Placeholder for Viewed Block #59

AuWiMo opened this issue Jul 11, 2018 · 4 comments

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@AuWiMo
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AuWiMo commented Jul 11, 2018

I would very much like a placeholder that identifies the block the player is looking at.
Would you add this?

@Wundero
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Wundero commented Aug 1, 2018

There isn't really a good way to get the block the player is looking at. What needs to be done for this becomes computationally expensive, and so making it a placeholder (especially if it has to be called upon numerous times / second) doesn't make that much sense. If Sponge implements something for this on their end, I would gladly expose it, but until then I would like to try to keep PlaceholderAPI fairly lean on the server.

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AuWiMo commented Aug 2, 2018

Minecraft shows you the block you are looking at when you click f3. Is that not enough?

@ronaldburns
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I'm not sure if the API exposes it, though.

@Wundero
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Wundero commented Aug 3, 2018

The sponge API doesn't have a 'looking at block' feature, since the one the F3 screen uses is client side. If sponge or placeholderapi were to expose a value, it would have to use ray tracing, rather than just the value used in F3, since it is not made available. Spigot, from what I am aware, removed support for block looking at due to this reason. I will consider implementing a ray tracing algorithm to do it but I will separate it as a placeholder and have it default to off if I do make it.

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