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How can I send Animation-Packet with ProtocolLib in Spigot?

I want to show a damage animation on a entity without damage. NOT:

entity.damage(2);

and then

public void onEntityDamage(EntityDamageEvent event) {
    event.setDamage(0);

more like that:

entity.setHealth(entity.getHealth - 2);
"Send a packet to Player Damage Animation IF POSSIBLE WITH ProtocolLib"
Solution

  • The method Player.damage method to make everything as "normal".

    If you want to send your own packet, yous should use the PacketPlayOutAnimation, with the value 1 (Why?)

    For 1.16 and lower:

    import net.minecraft.server.MC_VERSION.PacketPlayOutAnimation;

EntityPlayer ep = ((CraftPlayer) p).getHandle();
ep.playerConnection.sendPacket(new PacketPlayOutAnimation(ep, 1));

    For 1.17 and more:

    import net.minecraft.network.protocol.game.PacketPlayOutAnimation;

EntityPlayer ep = ((CraftPlayer) p).getHandle();
ep.b.sendPacket(new PacketPlayOutAnimation(ep, 1));

    Here is a version with import of direct minecraft version. You can use reflection to use those NMS for all versions.

    Or with ProtocolLib, it seems to be something like that:

    PacketContainer packetContainer = protocolManager.createPacket(Play.Server.ANIMATION);
packetContainer.getIntegers().write(0, entityId);
packetContainer.getIntegers().write(0, 1);
manager.sendServerPacket(p, packetContainer); // seems to be how you send packet

    More informations about the packet in ProtocolLib here