player's head movement

[proud shuttle]

what video!??!?!?!

[brave pilot]

Either use Player#sendHurtAnimation(float) method or send a damage animation (screen shake) packet.

You can, but it will be noticeable and not as smooth as screen shaking from getting damage.

Hmm... fair point. Add a constant to their pitch then.

No. A fixed number.

Ugh... Just add some number to pitch you feel like is the best to simulate a gun recoil.

In addition, there's some code from Gunshell plugin:

public void recoil(Player player, float pitchIncrement, double knockback) {
    Location location = player.getLocation();
    if (pitchIncrement > 0) {
        float pitch = location.getPitch();
        location.setPitch(pitch - pitchIncrement);

        // Use a cause other than PLUGIN or COMMAND because essentials sucks lol.
        Vector playerVelocity = player.getVelocity();
        player.teleport(location, PlayerTeleportEvent.TeleportCause.UNKNOWN);
        player.setVelocity(playerVelocity);
    }

    KnockbackUtils.applySelfKnockback(player, knockback);
}```

[proper vine]

bro this is skript help channel and not java-help lol

[brave pilot]

It was just to show how it's done in a plugin. I am perfectly aware of that.

Your code can be simplified to:

    subtract 1 from player's pitch
    wait 1 tick```

[proper vine]

u can subtract less than 1 from players pitch

[brave pilot]

Yes, but at the cost of recoil's duration.

It was just an example.

[proper vine]

no i meant it for improvement for the guy that needs this not for your code, which is totally fine

[brave pilot]

This is because you can't delay code execution by less than 1 tick. This is a limitation of your solution.