Bukkit

@TeamCataract

Ah you give me too much credit :P

I do want to reiterate however that I want people to feel they can report ANY issue they find with this plugin to me. I do sincerely apologize if I come across aggressive with some reports, this is NOT meant as anger towards the person reporting, but more as frustration in my own shortcomings.

@TotalPotato

I apologize for my previous comment, I get frustrated when I can't get things to work right. It's not your fault and I shouldn't have taken it out on you. I'll take another look at Celestial Pillars and see if I can improve on it for you.

@TotalPotato

Let me start by saying the power I am the most disappointed with is SnowMiser. Everything about it works fine, EXCEPT for freezing players. Sure, to everyone else it looks like they're frozen, but have someone use it on you then try to move. That jittering you see, to me, is a failure on my part to make that power work correctly.

To test the effectiveness of the current version of Celestial Pillars, from inside I threw two full stacks of snowballs at the invisible walls. Granted they bounced fast enough to hit the opposite walls on and on (they bouncing velocity is based on the entity's previous velocity), with the exception of some that bounced their way over the top none of them made it out until the effect ended.

Next I spawned about twenty skeletons, then created the pillars near them. None of them could pass the pillars, and their arrows were reflected away. Nothing got in, with the exception of one skeleton that somehow got wedged between a block and the barrier and stuttered awhile before being bounced in.

For my final test I stood near a corrupted chunk (I use this to simulate lag, as it never stops trying to load), spawned a few zombies and made pillars. Between a few short lag spikes some of them DID manage to get in.

Before using the bouncing method, I tried several others to simulate a solid barrier rather than a reflective one. Below are some of the methods I tried:

1. Create solid blocks and mask them as air. Other than spiders, mobs stop trying to pursue the player which makes the effect unrealistic. Any players who attempt to cross the blocks wind up glitching in place, unable to cross. Passage cannot be granted to the user without also granting it to all players as the only way to do this is to turn the blocks back into air.
2. Do a check of all entities in the area and track their movement. For players it's easy as an event already exists, but not mobs. Every mob who came close had to be added to a list, and every 1/20th of a second their old position and new position had to be recorded to detect movement. Mobs that tried to cross wound up jittering a second before crossing anyway. Also, jumping into the barrier made this method useless.

The point I'm trying to make is, if you request a power and it doesn't come out exactly as you imagined it, it's probably because I couldn't get it to work that way. While powers like Nightcloak come out perfectly after only maybe an hour of coding, powers like Celestial Pillars can take as long as several days where I'm pounding my head on my desk in frustration because I can't get it to work as intended. In the end, I pick the most polished method I can and go with it.

I'm not mad at you, if anything I appreciate you trying to help me improve a request. But realize there's only so much I can do to make things work a certain way. And if you think this is bad, imagine this: I started work on a power back before v3.2.6 (that was September) that I've had to rework and rebuild countless times because of limitations. In the end it'll be nothing like what I imagined, so trust me I understand.

@Palkia1208

I've actually identified the errors in Kunai, HolyShield, and LivingFlame. Unfortunately until v4.1.6 is done Kunai won't work, however until then you can fix the chat spam of the other two powers by resetting them with /powers power [power] -r. Note the spam will come back when the cooldown expires. I'll keep an eye out on the other powers to see if any others have this oversight.

@TotalPotato

Moving too quickly through webs while not in creative mode causes a "Player moved too quickly" error in Bukkit, which then tries to teleport the player back to where they came from. This also wouldn't have any effect on spiders.

@TotalPotato

In a roundabout way, yes. You can create real blocks then send packets telling players they're air, in essence making them invisible. Mobs will still know they're normal blocks though, and any player who tries to walk through them will get a jittering effect similar to when you walk into an unloaded chunk.

@Faldonboy

I've received similar reports about both of these powers in the past, I'll take a look at them.

@spawnstah

Glad I could help! Hope your players enjoy it!

@TotalPotato

Star Strike requires you have the actual cursor over the entity you want to attack. There can't be any non-air blocks in the way either I don't think.

Celestial Pillars makes mobs bounce because there's no good way to stop them. Unlike players, mobs don't have an event that tracks their movement, so it's difficult to track where a mob is coming from and where it's going, and even if you stop a mob from moving past a certain point, if it decides to move in that direction again it isn't registered (trust me, I TRIED to make it work that way). If entities are bouncing too much you can turn it down with the option "reflect-multiplier", but if it's too low entities will probably still be able to move through them. As for the blocks, I'll see what I can do.

@n33dy1

Whyyyy I haven't changed anything in it since it last worked... Alright, I'll look at it.

@spawnstah

I know, I'm terrible at documenting stuff... I put most of my attention into programming, so TeamCataract's been helping me lately. I do intend to add a FAQs section on the main page, but in the meantime...

By default a player can have a total of three powers: one offense, one defense, and one passive. Should they add a fourth power, it will replace the previous power of the same type. This can be overcome using the override command, /powers player [player] [power] -o, which will add the power regardless of what's currently assigned and without replacing any previous powers. Note that the override command can only be used by players with the s86powers.admin permission, the console, and ops.

All powers must be assigned individually, though I'm in the process of adding a feature that'll let you apply all powers that follow a certain trend (for example, giving a player all fire-based powers, etc).

There is a seperate feature in S86 Powers called groups, where you can assign a group of powers to a group of players at the same time.

1. /powers group [group] [power] creates a new group with the specified power assigned to it. You can add additional powers to the group using the same command. Again, admins can add "-o" to the end to add more than one of each kind.
2. /powers group [group] -a [player] adds the specified player to the group. Once added to the group, that player can use all powers that were assigned to it, as well as their own.

For example: You create group "FireUsers" and give it FireAura and PyroBow. Then you add player "Player1" to the group who already has FireAura and Eldruin. Player1 will now have FireAura, Eldruin, and PyroBow (notice he has two offensive powers yet an override was never needed). Next add "Player2" to the group who has DarkRegen, Adaptability, and EnderBlade. Player2 will now have DarkRegen, Adaptability, EnderBlade, FireAura, and PyroBow. Should you remove FireAura from the "FireUsers" group, Player2 will lose the power since they didn't previously have it assigned, but Player1 won't be affected since they did.

If you have anymore questions let me know!

@No1Griffster

No one's mentioned it not working, so my guess is it'll work fine. If not let me know.

@DuffstersATL

Actually Spout support was one of the first feature requests when this plugin went live. The problem is between the power requests and bug fixes it's hard to make time to add a feature like that, but should I ever get caught up I'd be all for checking into it.

As for effects, unfortunately Bukkit only lets you do so much, and from research my understanding is many particle effects (such as beacon beams and ender crystal beams) are purely client-side, so creating them is impossible at this point. I am however always improving on using various effects, and when I figure one out that'd work good for another power I try to go back and apply it.