RealMotd
RealMotd is advanced MOTD plugin. It offers you big amount of variables to use in MOTD, different MOTD every day, permission checking in motd and colors in MOTD.
Features
- Many many variables to use in MOTD
- Colorful MOTD
- Also /motd
- Group-specific MOTD
- World-specific MOTD
- Group in world specific MOTD ( CHECK PAGE QUICK START FOR MORE INFORMATION)
- 3 Modes: Single(only one MOTD within selected context), Daily(some days have special messages), Random(everytime player logs in choose something else)
- Checking whether player has permission in MOTD.
- Itallics,Bold,Underline, Strike & Rainbow!
Variables
This plugin offers you big amount of variables, so here you go!(please let me know if I forgot something)
- %player% - Name of player who has joined
- %nick% - Name of player who has joined. This may be colorful, contain prefix & suffix. Also, it's changeable.
- %world% - Name of world player has joined to
- %time% - Time in player's world.(0-24000)
- %weather% - Weather in world (rain or clear)
- %ip% - Player's IP
- %playerlist% - Online players
- %d% - Day of month in real life
- %mo% - Month
- %yr% - Year
- %h% - Hour
- %mi% - Minute
- %s% - Second
- %exp% - Experience
- %lev% - Level
- %totalexp% - Total experience
- %food% - Player's food level
- %x% - Player's X coordinate
- %y% - Player's Y coordinate
- %z% - Player's Z coordinate
- %op% - Whether the player is an OP
- %mode% - Game mode of the player
- ^example.example - Checks whether the player has permission example.example . The character ^ can be changed to something else.
- /n - New line in MOTD.
- %whitelist% - Whitelisted players
- %banlist% - Banned players
- %timestat% - Status of time (day | night)
- %allowednether% - Whether there is a nether enabled on this server (true | false)
- %allowflight% - Whether there is flight allowed (true | false)
- %serverip% - IP address of the server
- %serverport% - Port the server is listening on
- %serverid% - ID of the server (random number used for authentification)
- %env% - Environment type of the world where player is
- %nplayersonline% - Online players count
- %nmaxplayers% - Maximal count of players on the server
- %ptime% - Player's time (may be different from world's time)
- %ptimestat% - Same as timestat, but with player's time
- %worlds% - Worlds which this server is currently running
- %plugins% - Plugins running on this server
- %day% - Minecraft day
Commands
Commands can be used to set MOTD in-game. It's good for quick changing, but you're limited to 80 chars. Use /motd set <motd> to set default motd and /motd set <month> <day> <motd> to set a day-specific motd. While setting motd in-game, use /n for newline and colors stay the same.
Configuration
This plugin generates configuration file after its first run.
Configuration Nodes
transl.weather.clear - Translation for weather clear transl.weather.raining - Translation for raining transl.mode.creative - Translation for creative mode transl.mode.survival - Translation for survival mode transl.op.is - Translation for OP transl.op.isnt - Translation for regular player transl.permission.has - Translation for has permission transl.permission.hasnt - Translation for hasn't permission transl.time.day - Translation for day transl.time.night - Translation for night transl.env.nether - Translation for nether transl.env.sky - Translation for skylands transl.env.normal - Translation for regular world transl.flight.allowed - Translation for flight allowed transl.flight.denied - Translation for flight denied permission - The character which identifies, that the text next to it is permission verification motd.mode - Mode of motd. Must be one of these: Daily, Random, Single
Setting up MOTD
Setting up motd is very easy. Go to <your server's folder>/plugins/RealMotd where you find folder "messages".
- Daily mode - Different MOTD for special days. You need to create a new text file called: motd_[month]_[day].txt ,where you write your motd. For example, for 26th September, it'd be "motd_9_26.txt". You don't need to create MOTD files for every day. Only for those special ones. If RealMotd can't find such-named file, it displays the default file.
- Random mode - Random mode each time user logs in You need to create how much of txt files you like. Files don't even have to end with .TXT. This mode chooses random file from messages directory as MOTD.
- Single mode - One MOTD forever. Always chooses motd.txt from folder messages.
If you're confused, look at the example configuration file below
Example configuration file
transl.weather.clear: Clear transl.weather.raining: Raining transl.mode.creative: Creative transl.mode.survival: Survival transl.op.is: Operator transl.op.isnt: Player transl.permission.has: can transl.permission.hasnt: can't permission: ^ transl.time.day: Day transl.time.night: Night transl.env.nether: Nether transl.env.sky: Skylands transl.env.normal: Overworld transl.flight.allowed: can transl.flight.denied: can't mode: single
How do I use the configuration file like that???
There are lots of options how to make MOTD as you wish. This example configuration file can be used as following: [plugins/RealMotd/messages/motd.txt]
Hello %op% %player%! You ^can.mine mine blocks and ^can.build build. You ^can.fly fly. Time of server is %time%. That's %timestat%. It's %weather%.
Look at the result MOTD. I've attached two of them, so you can see which parts of MOTD are changing. The result MOTD for code like that would look like this:
Hello Player Tomsik68! You can't mine blocks and can't build. You can't fly. Time of server is 13536. That's night. It's Clear.
or this:
Hello Operator Tomsik68! You can mine blocks and can build. You can fly. Time of server is 1353. That's day. It's Raining.
Colors
There are more ways of using colors in RealMotd. You can choose which one you want to use using configuration file. For more information about colors, please look here.
If you need more complex MOTD example even with formatting and colors, go here
Addons
So you don't have enough? RealMotd API is big, so there are some plugins that are using it. Here's a list of such plugins:
- RealMotd-Messages - Implementation of Join & Leave message using RealMotd variables, colors & formatting!
- RealMotd-ServerList - Server list message(a.k.a. MOTD) using RealMotd power!
TO-DO
- Import groups from permission plugins
Developers' API
It's available at http:dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/realmotd/pages/developers-api-documentation/
This help is not complete
As this plugin is very customisable, you can try to figure out some trick with configuration, variables or colors. And if you don't know how to do something with this plugin, send me a PM, or email me at [email protected] . I like to help! Thanks and Enjoy!
Have a problem? Take a ticket!
If you wanna submit a bug, please take a ticket, so we avoid comments section mess ;)
Contact Author
If you wish to contact author somewhere else, you can do so on:
- Blog: http://tomsik68.github.io/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomsik68
- E-Mail: [email protected]
- GitHub: https://github.com/tomsik68 (also, sources of all plugins!)
- Skype: Tomsik68
@tomsik68
Ok thnks
@YapZiYang
Yes, that's possible, but I'm not sure if (server) is a variable, but anyway, I'll pastebin that for you: http://pastebin.com/ezTjBz50 In the newest RealMotd beta version, you also need to configure decorators like so:
@YapZiYang
nvm...i will paste it in pastebin: http://pastebin.com/qK0xgtbS
@tomsik68
Can we do something like this with the plugin? &6Welcome, {PLAYER}&6!
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Hey guys, I'm currently working on groups importers. The vault one is finished. Please post permissions plugins you're using, so I can make more importers. Thanks :)
@ThisUsernameIsMine
Hey bro, I recognized your name. I just updated my plugin that you have downloaded before. The mods are approving it.
Awesome!!!
@tomsik68
Well, i actually want it to show the name of the last connected player.
Making it remember the most recent connected player shouldn't be too difficult, right? ;-)
@michalet
Yes, definitely possible :) I'll try to get 0.9 out today, but it needs more testing...
Hey and thanks for even considering the permissions.
I have another suggestion, would it be possible to make the hour and min variables always show two digits? Now the time shows eg. 11:2, maybe change it so it'd show 11:02 instead?
@ThisUsernameIsMine
I don't know what you mean by limitations. Anyways, %player% can't be used in serverlist, because you don't have to be logged in to ping a server, which is why server doesn't know player nick on server ping. I COULD use the IP to determine nick, but that's not so reliable, since more players could share the same IP. It'd be just too difficult...
@tomsik68
Thanks for the answer! :)
btw: can't %player% be used in server-list due to limitations?
@ThisUsernameIsMine
Yes, this plugin is at the moment for in-game MOTDs only. I'm working on an addon called RealMotd-ServerList, but I can't tell when it's going to be done, since it's in very early stages of development. In server list message, you won't be able to use %player%. Only server-side variables like playerlist, banlist, whitelist, serverip, serverport etc. No world variables can be used, because you may have more than one world. I'll probably change that later, but for now, I need to handle a basic serverlist message :)
@michalet
Ok, I'll try to implement some group importer(s), but it'll take some time, because school is making me busy... ;)
Is this plugin for in-game MOTD's, only?
If not, can the %player% (or any other) variable also be used in server-list MOTD's, and does it update each time a new player joins?
Thanks :)
@tomsik68
I'm asking because I'd like to have a specific motd for default group (with some tips how to get started on the server) and if I understood your group system correctly, the members have to added manually, which, in my case, would be impossible. I'm not a programmer, but essentials somehow have this and maybe Vault could help?
PS: Don't take me wrong, I like the plugin. :)
@michalet
I was expecting someone would ask me to do this, but the thing is, there are few permission plugins out there, but each of them uses different group system(world-specific etc). That's why I made a custom group system. It shouldn't be too hard to convert group file from your permissions plugin to the RealMotd format, as it's well described. I could try to implement import command, which imports groups from your permissions plugin, whilst you'll be able to re-define them. Are you fine with that? :)
Since you already have group related motd, could you add support for permissions groups? So instead of listing the members, we could just use the group's name.
@evilpdor
Yep, I noticed those are for Rei's minimap :) There are no other alternative to doing these things, as everything else would use the replace method which takes the time to complete... The best thing to do are the ยง-based color codes.
@tomsik68
the color in the motd posted by FrancescoDS is usefull to enable rei's minimap radar in SMP you can propose another alternative?