bChatManager
bChatManager - The easy to use chat manager for bukkit
What is this?
bChatManager is an easy to use chat plugin for bukkit. Now supporting any plugin that works with vault, it has a number of features such as:
- Supports most plugins that provide prefixes
- Intuitive messaging format based off the twitter @messaging system
- Factions support
bChatManager was originally forked off the PEX ChatManager, so users coming from pex may vaguely recognise the config file. (even though I completely reworked it)
Installation and Usage
Requirements
- Vault
- Craftbukkit
Configuration
Once you've installed the plugin (which I'm not going to go into here, if you can't put a jar file in a folder then god help you), you may want to configure it. Here is the default config.
formats: message-format: '%prefix %player: &f%message' local-message-format: '[LOCAL] %prefix %player: &f%message' personal-message-format: '[MSG] [%player -> %reciever] &f%message' op-message-format: '&c[OPS ONLY] %player: &f%message' me-format: '* %player %message' toggles: control-me: true ranged-mode: false special-features: true other: chat-range: 100.0
Formats
- message format: Format of a global chat message
- local-message-format: Format of a local chat message.
- personal-message-format: Format of the @messaging messages
- me-format: Format for /me
- op-message-format: Op only message format
Toggles
- control-me: Toggle whether bChatManager should handle /me
- ranged-mode: Toggles local messages. Doesn't work with chat channels.
- special-featues: Toggles whether @messaging and !global messaging in local chat should be enabled,
Other
- chat-range: If local chat is enabled, this sets how far the players can speak
Special Chat Functions
- !message - Sends a message globally. Only useful in ranged mode.
- @playername message - Sends a private message to another player on the server. Can autocomplete the name, so if you have someonee called "OmG_CoMpleX1234" you could just do @omg message to message them. You can also message ops with @ops message.
Formatting Placeholders
- %message - Message text
- %player - Player's name
- %prefix - Player's prefix
- %suffix - Player's suffix
- %group - Player's group
- %world - World the player is in
- %mvworld - Multiverse formatted world tag. Requires bChatManager 3.1 and Multiverse core
- %faction - the faction the player is in. Requires factions 2.0
- %displayname - displayname of the player. USE THIS FOR ESSENTIALS NICKS
- Colors you can use - http:www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Classic_server_protocol#Color_Codes for the colors. Alternatively, try this site - http://buildworx-mc.com/bukkitColor/
- &l - bold text
- &m - striked text
- &n - underlined text
- &o - italic text
Permissions nodes
- bchatmanager.chat.global - allows you to use global chat in local chat
- bchatmanager.chat.color - allows you to color chat
- bchatmanager.chat.message - allows you to @message someone
- bchatmanager.spy - 1.3.2 feature, allows you to hear all PM's and local messages
Commands
- /me <message> - the /me command
- /bchatreload (must have the permissions bchatmanager.reload or be op) - Reloads bChatManager
Why did you remove the chat channels?
The way I had implemented chat channels was terrible. It was buggy, the code was convulted and messy, and I really should't have released it. Chat channels have therefore been removed from bChatManager 3.0 until I can implement them in a more robust fashion.
MCStats
Older versions of bChatManager had a anonymous plugin stats tool called MCStats built into bChatManager. If you're using one of these older versions, and wish to disable it, find the PluginMetrics folder in your plugins folder and edit the config.yml to disable the stats :). If you wish to see these stats, they are publically avaliable https://mcstats.org/plugin/bChatManager. All the information there is the information that gets sent. Nothing else.
Video Tutorial (Thanks to BukkitTeacher)
Download
Latest version is 3.0. Download from http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/bchatmanager/files/26-bchat-manager-v3-1-4/ today!
Development builds of this project can now be acquired at the provided continuous integration server located at http://rymatemc.co.uk/jenkins/job/bChatManager/
These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.
Source code!
My github is at https://github.com/rymate1234/bChatManager Feel free to fork me :P
The bottom bit
Any suggestions on how I can improve this plugin? Post in the comments! And if you need any help, also feel free to post on the forums section of this :)
I am having trouble making the group colours appear automatically when somone, say in the "default" group, when they text i cant make the colour "eg. blue" appear automatically, instead they have to do "&c <message> which then makes the Chat colour blue.
Suggestion. World: %Prefix% %Nick% %message%: World2: %world% %Nick%
Should make it show the leader and mods and other types of people in the factions when talking. e.g Hey Player
Using Spigot v1.9.2 I haven't encountered any bugs at this current time. If I do. I will update!
@freakyy85
Taking a look now, thanks for the bug report!
@achap1989
/me is a default minecraft command - disabling bChatManager handling of /me merely allows other plugins to handle it
i also gave a group ^bchatmanager.chat.message. but it didnt help. the group still can use @nick <msg>
im having a problem. i put special-features: false - but still the @nick <msg> works. i want to disable that. :)
@FuraHub
You need to edit the config file to use %displayname instead of %player
When I use /nick it says I get a nickname, but it doesn't show my nickname when I type in chat. Does this plugin not work with essentials nick and the nickname plugin?
I seem to have issues with using /me with this plugin, when disabled a user can use /me, however when enabled and given the node they can not use it
This is a great plugin, would love to see two features:
(1) Allow for more control over what color codes are allowed. So I don't have 15 people spamming with '&k' every minute (2) A reply feature using /r [msg] or @@ [msg] to reply to last private message.
Great work though.
I'm having a similar problem with colours not being shown from pex and yes i have vault installed
It wont pick up my prefixes and suffixes from PEX..
@CloudeLecaw
do you have vault installed
I too would like to ask that you take a look at the Factions/Bchatmanager issue.
Thanks for your time!
When will this plugin be updated to work with factions? it works great by itself, but once factions is installed it breaks : / i think it actually may be a problem with massive core?
@rymate1234
Any way you can add per-group formats? This would be great.
@paliate
I'll have a look later
@rymate1234 ?
@rymate1234 the plugin doesn't work when factions is installed (prefix wise), Not even when faction config is edited to make it work