Compass pointing to the nearest player

Hi
My friends and I wish to play a large custom map for the Hunger Games. I don't want the game to last forever, so I hope that I can find a plugin that has a compass which points to the nearest player.

What I want
-Compass points to the nearest player
-Compass can only track one player (Nearest Player)
-Does not track ops

Hopefully it can be done within 2 days?

~I really, really, really thank you in advance

-Ace

Hmnn. I wouldnt mind taking a look at it. Maybe you should consider a client side mod. Look up tracers.

No, I don't want a mod because the only tracers I can find are ones which can see through blocks.

I think I can do it.
I'm new to this but I'm not new to java so I'm learning pretty fast
I'll contact you tommorow

This has been done before but its says [HungerGames] and points to player nearest to you with a customizable distance

I think that that plugin generates a random map which I do not want.

Thanks

No it doesn't its just a small plugin when you right click with compass it says [HungerGames] Now tracking player AcedGod and thats about it you can customize the distance and no commands or permissions

Could I have a link please?

Ok I found it although it's not exactly how I wanted it.

Let me see if you have the right link? What is missing?

I got it from here
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29941160/PlayerTracker-0.2.jar

What I'm missing is that
-It doesn't ignore ops
-I don't want it to display a message
-I want it to be enabled 100% of the time

Why are you stealing crap from my thread?

Its public we can use it if we want to... and @AcedGod ask the developer in the thread or private message him and if you do get it mind sharing an update with me?

He said he'll try to see what he can do by monday.

Well ok thats goos then i guess wait till then and see what happens

Nice concept! I think someone already beat me to it, so I won't try.
But still, I really like your concept.

I can do this right now. I'll have all the features you want in it.

So no pointing to ops EVER, or do you want a permission node to allow people to see where ops are, OR do you want a permission node to hide them?

Thanks but another person has answered my request and is trying to help me at the moment.

Do you know when it will be ready?

I have it now but I have not tested it yet.

Share with the rest of us?

I coded this like a month ago, maybe someone here will find it useful. It takes the list (array) of players and points their compass to the nearest person in the list. This should be put inside a scheduler that repeats every second or tick (how ever often you want). This requires no clicking and is always set to the nearest player.

Code:

    public static void updateCompases(Player[] players) {
        for (int i = 0; i < players.length; i++) {
            Location l = players[i].getLocation();
            double shortestDistance = 99999;
            int nearestPlayer = i;
            for (int j = 0; j < players.length; j++) {
                double distanceToPlayer = l.distance(players[j].getLocation());
                if (distanceToPlayer < shortestDistance && i != j) {
                    nearestPlayer = j;
                    shortestDistance = distanceToPlayer;
                }
            }
           
            players[i].setCompassTarget(players[nearestPlayer].getLocation());
      }
    }

Sorry for replying late. Here it is
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29941160/PlayerTracker-0.3-AcedGod.jar

Thanks Codisimus! I was trying to something else with compasses and your code helped me

I liked this idea so much I had to add it as a feature in my plugin: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/vitals-plugin/

In the config under mechanics mods set usefulcompass: true, then compasses will ALWAYS work like that, pointing to the nearest player (if there is one). It properly checks for multiworlds and only tries to point to the nearest player in your current world.