How it is possible to set the orientation of a piston?

[tjh]

With scriptcraft 3.2 and spigot 1.9 using the .box() command  a sticky piston is always placed with the piston facing downwards.

How can the orientation be influenced?

[tjh]

Is it possible to use the undocumented setBlock command:

this.setBlock(blocks.bed, bedDirections[this.dir], 0,0,0, false);

and using the block data:

0x0	facing down
0x1	facing up
0x2	facing north
0x3	facing south
0x4	facing west
0x5	facing east

https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/blob/c036e38f370bb51af99805d0693d6c2d83ca6a79/src/main/js/modules/drone/index.js

https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/spigot/

setTypeIdAndData - deprecated

[Anthony Wood]

Did you find an answer to this?  I'm struggling too. Trying to script piston doors is a bit tricky without this...

[Captain Starbuck]

This may help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31998446/how-to-change-a-piston-direction

[Woody]

Thanks, that got me over the line. Working example:

// Like drone.box , but takes properties for setblock as second param
function boxprop(block, prop, x, y, z) {

if (typeof x == 'undefined') {

x = 1;

}

if (typeof y == 'undefined') {

y = 1;

}

if (typeof z == 'undefined') {

z = 1;

}

for ( var i = 0; i < x; i++ ) {

this.right(i);

for ( var j = 0; j < y ; j++ ) {

this.up(j);

for ( var k = 0; k < z ; k++ ) {

this.fwd(k);

this.setBlock(block,prop,0,0,0,false);

this.back(k);

}

this.down(j);

}

this.left(i);

}

}

Drone.extend(boxprop);

// have the pistons face the drone if prop is pistonDirections[this.dir], like in regular minecraft

var pistonDirections = {

  0:4, // east

  1:2, // south

  2:5, // west

  3:3  // north

};

function hiddendoor ( wall, floor ) {

if (typeof wall == 'undefined' ) {

wall = blocks.stone;

}

if (typeof floor == 'undefined' ) {

wall = blocks.grass;

}

this

.up(1).fwd(3)

.boxprop(blocks.sticky_piston,pistonDirections[this.dir],2,2,1);

this

.turn(1).fwd(3)

.boxprop(blocks.sticky_piston,pistonDirections[this.dir],2,2,1)

.turn(2).left(1).fwd(5)

.boxprop(blocks.sticky_piston,pistonDirections[this.dir],2,2,1);

}

Drone.extend(hiddendoor);