ChatColor
Description:
ChatColor allows players to change the colour and style of their chat to many different things! Colour your chat in over 16 million different colours, with all Minecraft colours, modifiers and hex colours supported!
Plugin Support
If you need some help or support with the plugin, please join my support Discord server here: https://discord.gg/hNBtt9cDk4
Features:
- Change the colour of your players' chat message to over 16 million different possibilities.
- Supporting legacy, hex, rainbow, and gradient colours, giving you maximum customisability.
- All modifiers including bold, italic, underlined, and even obfuscated if you really want it, are available.
- MySQL & MariaDB support - keep your colours the same across all of your servers.
- Supports setting colours from console - easy to include as a donor purchase reward.
- Complete set of permissions allowing for fine control over player access to colours.
- Custom colour system to make it easier to create and save your favourite hex, rainbow, or gradient colours.
- Group colour system to enable permission-based set colours
- Fully customisable plugin messages.
- Fully customisable GUI for advanced colour selection.
- Settings to modify plugin functionality.
- Helpful and friendly author! Always here to help where I can.
Note: See below for help on commands, permissions, colours, modifiers and settings!
Commands:
Key:
- <value> = Required value.
- [value] = Optional value.
Main Command:
- /chatcolor [player] <color/default> [modifiers] - Change yours or a player's chat colour!
- For a custom colour, use: /chatcolor [player] %<name>
The name is defined in the custom-colors.yml config file. - Note: Please see here for information on hex colours! The format is like so: &#RRGGBB, where each character after the # must be a number or letter between 0-9 and a-f.
Admin Commands:
- /chatcolor permissionshelp - Shows permissions help!
- /chatcolor settingshelp - Shows settings help!
- /chatcolor reload - Reloads all configs, use if you changed them while running!
- /chatcolor reset - Use with caution, resets the config to the default!
- /chatcolor set <setting> <value> - Changes one of the many settings! (See below for details)
- /chatcolor confirm - Confirms a setting change.
- /chatcolor group <add/remove/list> [name] [color] - Adds, removes, or lists group colours. You can use these to give groups a chat color through permissions (see below).
- /chatcolor custom <add/remove/list> [name] [color] - Adds, removes, or lists custom colours. The color must be a valid custom color string.
Other Commands:
- /chatcolor - Shows your current chat colour!
- /chatcolor gui - Open a GUI for selecting your desired colour!
- /chatcolor <add/remove> <modifier> - Adds or removes a modifier from your chat colour.
- /chatcolor available - Shows your available colours and modifiers!
- /chatcolor commandshelp - Shows command help! You can also use /chatcolor help.
Customisable GUI:
- The GUI is fully customisable in the config file gui.yml.
- There are instructions for creating your own GUIs as well as three example GUIs (one for normal colours, one for hex colours and one for custom colours) ready to go in the config.
- Feel free to drop me a message if you need any help!
Settings:
- command-name - Changes the base command to whatever you want!
- color-override - Changes whether ChatColor overrides '&' colour symbols in messages.
- confirm-timeout - Changes the time that players get when making a decision.
- default-color - Changes the colour that all players get when joining (also one-time sets all players).
- join-message - Changes if players are told their colour when joining.
- notify-others - Changes whether players are told if their chat colour is changed by someone else.
- auto-save - Changes whether the plugin will auto-save to files every 5 minutes, in case of a crash
- save-interval - Sets the time interval between saves for the plugin.
- force-custom-colors - Changes whether the plugin will force custom colours to be used. Note: This is actually group colours not custom colours.
- command-opens-gui - If set to true, /chatcolor will open the GUI instead of telling you your colour.
Colours & Modifiers:
Valid Colours:
- 0 or black
- 1 or dark.blue
- 2 or green
- 3 or dark.aqua
- 4 or red
- 5 or purple
- 6 or gold
- 7 or grey
- 8 or dark.grey
- 9 or blue
- a or light.green
- b or aqua
- c or light.red
- d or magenta
- e or yellow
- f or white
- All hex colours, in the format #RRGGBB
Valid Modifiers:
- k or obfuscated
- l or bold
- m or strikethrough
- n or underlined
- o or italic
Permissions:
- chatcolor.* - Grants a player all ChatColor permissions. Please note that you cannot use a custom colour if you have this permission!
- chatcolor.use - Allows a player to use /chatcolor and /chatcolor cmdhelp.
- chatcolor.use-color-codes - Allows a player to use & colour codes in the chat.
- chatcolor.use-hex-codes - Allows a player to use hex codes to color their chat (allows ALL colours!).
- chatcolor.special - Allows a player to use rainbow and gradient colours via the /chatcolor command. Does not allow use of preset custom colours.
- chatcolor.gui - Allows use of the GUI to select a colour.
- chatcolor.color.* - Allows a player to use all colours.
- chatcolor.color.<color> - Allows a player to use colour.
- chatcolor.modifier.* - Allows a player to use all modifiers.
- chatcolor.modifier.<modifier> - Allows a player to use a modifier.
- chatcolor.change.* - Allows a player to change everyone's chat color.
- chatcolor.change.self - Allows a player to change their own colour.
- chatcolor.admin - Allows a player to use all admin commands.
- chatcolor.group.<color-name> - Sets a player/group's group colour.
- chatcolor.custom.<color-name> - Gives a player access to a custom colour.
Note: You must use either numbers or letters found above for the colours and modifiers permissions.
PlaceholderAPI
Here are the different placeholders you can use for this plugin:
- %cc_full_color% - Returns the full colour (colour + modifiers) of a player. Can then be used to colorise text after it.
Note: Rainbow & gradient colours will not be displayed! - %cc_color% - Returns the colour only (no modifiers) of a player.
- %cc_color_name% - Returns the name or character of the player's colour, e.g. a, b, c, or %custom-name.
- %cc_colored_color_name% - Same as %cc_color_name%, but the colour is applied to the text returned.
- %full_color_name% - Returns the full word version of a player's colour, e.g. red, black, dark green.
- %colored_full_color_name% - Same as %cc_full_color_name%, but the colour is applied to the text returned.
- %cc_modifiers% - Returns the modifiers only (no colour) of a player. Can then be used to modify text after it.
- %cc_modifier_names% - Returns the modifier names, e.g. l, mn, lmn.
- %cc_modified_modifier_names% - Same as %cc_modifier_names%, but with the modifiers applied to the text returned.
- %cc_full_modifier_names% - Returns the full word version of a player's modifiers. e.g., bold, italic.
- %cc_modified_full_modifier_names% - Same as %cc_full_modifier_names%, but with the modifiers applied to the text returned.
- %cc_group% - Returns the player's current active group name, or "None" if there isn't one.
- %cc_<color/modifier>_available% - Returns either 'gui-available' or 'gui-unavailable' from the messages.yml, based on if the player has the necessary permission. e.g. %cc_a_available%
Videos
- Plugin showcase by Barbercraft!
Data Collection:
This plugin uses bStats to collect some statistics about usage of the plugin and sends them to https://bstats.org/. This can be disabled by changing 'stats' in the config.yml to false. The statistics sent include Version Demographics, Server/Player Statistics, Server Location, Operating System etc. The stats available to the public are Version Demographics, Server Location, Rank, Java Version and Global Statistics. These are viewable at https://bstats.org/plugin/bukkit/ChatColor2.
Bugs:
- If you find any bugs, please report them! Reports are very helpful so that I know what I'm doing wrong and what I need to fix!
- You can report bugs through GitHub, by direct message, or joining the support Discord server shown at the top of this page.
Hi!
I think chatColor prevents you from changing the name color of players with the /teams command. I don´'t know if this is a bug or you can change it somewhere. Just wanted to inform you :)
In reply to Forge_User_52849772:
Hello!
Thanks for the report. However, my plugin does not alter the display-name of players at any point, so I would suspect it's another plugin that's preventing this. If you DM me a list of your plugins, I can try and help you figure out which one it is!
Many thanks,
Sulphate
Very good plugin, frequently updated, easy to use, and very helpful support.
Best Chat Color plugin I have seen in ages!
In reply to mrfrothbite:
Thanks very much for the review! ^-^
Hey. I am unable to successfully change the color of the chat. I even changed the default for the server and it is still the default white chat color.
Thanks in advance
In reply to FMastah:
Hello :) Could you please DM me with details of your server setup, including a plugins list and the Spigot version?
Thanks!
Hello. I'm getting an error that is also spamming my server log:
Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to ChatColor2 v1.7.7
Is there something I can do to change this? I haven't changed any of the configs. I would also like to turn off this plugin's ability to print to the server logs if possible.
Thank you!
In reply to christofin:
Hi, this is because of the same reason as the person below this comment. An update will be out soon.
Error messages are automatically printed to the console if not handled in the code. I will consider adding an option to turn off console messages, although the plugin rarely puts anything in there so I may not.
Thanks!
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
Hello,
Does 1.14 work with 1.12.2? I noticed that players are able to use "&" without permission in chat and chat freely with any color.
I only have your plugin and am wondering if the 1.12.2 version is very old and I should get the latest one.
THANKS!
In reply to TuT_OrGames:
It should do yes - however I hadn't thought about that. My plugin will allow players to use & without persmission.. I will add a permission check for this in the next update.
You should use the latest version (1.7.8), it should be compatible with all Minecraft versions down to 1.8.8, and has all the latest features and bug fixes!
Many thanks for the report!
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
Thanks for the answers. I knew it was weird. When I put color-override to true, instead of false, then they can't use "&". It's like opposite.
I love this plugin a lot. :)
Also, /chatcolor reload says it's an invalid command, both on player and console. That needs to be fixed to. /chatcolor reloadmessages works fine though.
In reply to TuT_OrGames:
Yes, that is what should happen if override is true. I'm about to push an update which will require players to have a permission, chatcolor.use-color-codes to allow players to use & in the chat. All other players will not be able to.
/chatcolor reload was actually removed in a previous update, in favour of using /chatcolor set in-game. If there is a demand for it back I'll add it in another update :)
Thank you for your support!
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
Reload helps with 24/7 servers, you have no idea. I despise using /reload, reloading EVERYTHING at once. I beg you to add it.
I don't know what "/chatcolor set in-game" is. Please make /reload. Please please.
EDIT: Please let me know when the new permission and the override thing works. I'd love to test it out.
In reply to TuT_OrGames:
Both /chatcolor reload and the new permission is out, please check the description above :)
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
Awesome! I'm going to test it out.
In reply to TuT_OrGames:
Great! I hope it works nicely for you :)
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
This is working very cleanly. Can't do "&" freely and the permission works. Fantastic. Thank you so much for this.
EDIT: Do you think it's possible to add a rainbow color? I'm not sure if that would be difficult to add or not, but my players are requesting it. It's fine if you can't or don't want to. Just a question.
In reply to TuT_OrGames:
There already is a rainbow colour! :) Use /chatcolor rainbow.
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
Thank you kindly! Everybody on my server loves the plugin. I'll look forward to the update.
In reply to christofin:
Glad to hear it! I'll try and get the update out soon.