Unable to cast EntityPlayer to EntityClientPlayerMP

[Oninaig]

I have a FakePlayer class that extends EntityPlayer (so by definition, FakePlayer is also an EntityPlayer).

 

For packet handling I am trying to cast FakePlayer as a EntityClientPlayerMP as such:

 

Side side = FMLCommonHandler.instance().getEffectiveSide();
				if(side == Side.SERVER)
				{
					//We are on the server side
					EntityPlayerMP player =  (EntityPlayerMP)thePlayer;

				}
				else if(side == Side.CLIENT)
				{
					EntityClientPlayerMP player = (EntityClientPlayerMP) thePlayer;
					player.sendQueue.addToSendQueue(packet);
				}
				else{
					//Error!
				}

where thePlayer is the FakePlayer object. This throws the following error:

 

onicraft.FakePlayer cannot be cast to net.minecraft.client.entity.EntityClientPlayerMP

 

Any ideas?

[keepcalm]

FakePlayer needs to extend EntityClientPlayerMP.