Player Color Name Change

Hello My Fellow Bukkitians,
I was wondering on how to change a player's name above their head and making them keep their skin.

Please Do not link me to any plugins I would like this in my own plugin.

Notice: I have already figured out how to change a players name on the player's list and their chat name.

 

Try tag api a library made for this purpose but be CAREFULL once in the 1.8 this wont be working

 

Changing the player's name above their head is a tricky piece of work, because it's the Client's interpretation of the information they receive from the Server about the player. As far as Bukkit goes, their's no built-in way to modify this specific interpretation, meaning you have to manually forge the packets being sent to the Client.

TagAPI is a great library that can be used for this, as mine-care has already pointed out. If you don't wish to use TagAPI (I understand wanting that independence!), go take a look at the source, and learn from the parts that you would need to use, and then implement it into your plugin!

 

Your post says you want to change the name, but the title says only the color?

In the case you only want to change the color you can achieve this by using scoreboards, just put the players in a team that has a colored prefix and BOOOM!

 

I would say that this is a fairly problematic solution to something as simple as modifying the color of the name tag.

 

@FerusGrimWell, It actually depends on what exactly you're trying to do, by example, if I'm going to have the whole server a whole game where all players have the same scoreboard there shouldn't be a problem, of course, if you're going to have a bunch of minigames with different scoreboards then it's fairly complicated.

 

I tried looking at the code but couldn't get out what to do could you please help me out a bit.

 

I think scoreboards are the simplest way to go. And on top of that, for this scenario you do not need to do per-player-scoreboards you just get bukkits main scoreboard and add the team and there you go !

 

TheCodingCat I'm not sure on how to do this could you supply me with some code?

 

sethrem https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tutorial-scoreboards-teams-with-the-bukkit-api.139655/

 

no no no Konato_K thats for a tutorial using per-player-scoreboards that is not what I think sethrem wants. Here this might work

Code:java

public void addScoreboard() { //once the team gets added in /scoreboard team you can delete this method.
                Team team = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager().getMainScoreboard().registerNewTeam("ThisIsTheNameThatWillApear in /scoreboard");
                team.setPrefix("ThePrefixYouWant. In this case a color");
            }
            //onJoin
            // if team does not contain player
            Bukkit.getScoreboardManager().getMainScoreboard().getTeam("TheSameNameYouRegistered").addPlayer((event.getPlayer());

 

sethrem
You could use my library. You're free to modify code as long as you don't claim it as yours. (Read LICENSE if you don't know what I'm saying)

 

Why tag me? o.o;
sethrem

 

FerusGrim
whoops. meant the OP lool
EDIT: edited

 

Your thing doesn't even work lol. I try to make the player's name colored and it don't work lol

Code:

        DisguiseAPI.getAPI().disguisePlayer(player, Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers(), ChatColor.YELLOW + player.getName());

This doesn't work.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

sethrem
What version are you using? Remember: It's not compatible on versions higher than 1.7.9 (Authentication servers)

 

1.7.2

 

+1 for using Bukkitians as a person; people.

 

FabeGabeMC To be exact when I log on with my main then log on with my alt my main crashes. GG.

 

what errors do you get in console and/or your minecraft paste the errors please

 

sethrem just use scoreboards if you only need a colour. If you change the tag, you will have issues with names that have more than 14 chars.

 

TheCodingCat Nvm it works fucked up my jars with my other plugin, but like is it possible to keep my current scoreboard with the team one?

 

yes thats what my code does