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.
Those instructions worked perfect! Thank you!
In reply to majorgoodheart:
Glad to hear it! Have fun with the plugin :)
Does not seem to work with Spigot 1.13.2 and chatcontrol/essentialsx. Tells me I am using a color format but chat does not apply it.
In reply to majorgoodheart:
Please do not use the * or chatcolor.* permission, this will result in your colour permanently set to white, unless you do one of the following:
Hope this helps!
Plugin doesn't work in Spigot-1.14.4-6cde556-20190813-1038
In reply to ahshfpdlf12:
Hi! Would you be able to be a bit more specific? What's not working?
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
It seems to be working fine, but no change happens.
+) plugins
Chatcolor version 1.9.3
EssentialsX version 2.17.1.12
ChatManager plugin was added after I confirmed that chatcolor didn't work
In reply to ahshfpdlf12:
Please note that you cannot use the * or chatcolor.* permission, or your chatcolor will be set to the first available custom color, permanently.
To fix this, please do one of the following:
Hope this helps! :)
In reply to Forge_User_05433798:
Now working. Thank you!
In reply to ahshfpdlf12:
Glad to hear it!
Heya, I recently updated this plugin for a 1.14.4 Spigot server, but whenever I start the server I get a null pointer exception from the plugin. It's updated to the latest version, and I've tried downgrading it too, but so far nothing's worked. Do you know what might be causing this or how I can fix it?
Thanks in advance!
In reply to greysdawn:
Hey there :)
Could you send me a DM with a full server log please?
Thanks!
Hi,
I run a server with some friends and I gave them all necessary permissions and they can change their chat color just fine. I inherit all of their permissions since I am the owner of the server but I cannot change my color. What could I be doing wrong?
Here are their permissions:
"chatcolor.gui",
"chatcolor.use",
"chatcolor.use-color-codes",
"chatcolor.color*",
"chatcolor.modifier*",
"chatcolor.change.self",
In reply to DotDavid:
The correct permissions that you have wrong there would be 'chatcolor.color.*' and 'chatcolor.modifier.*' (well, I've never tried those so I can't be sure, so I'm just presuming).
Additionally, you cannot have the 'chatcolor.*' permission, or the '*' permission. Alternatively, please run '/chatcolor set force-custom-colors false' and then '/confirm' and it will no longer be a problem :) (but you won't be able to use custom colors).
Hope this helps!
Hi, I am currently using PermissionsEx to give my donators and players permissions to use /chatcolor gui, but when I add "chatcolor.use and chatcolor.gui" to their groups, they are still unable to use /chatcolor gui. Any way you could help me fix this? Thanks.
My Discord is longbow122#9252 , you can DM me anytime.
You brought it back! I'm really glad, this is my favorite chatcolor plugin by far
In reply to TheJonOfAllTrades:
Hey! Thanks for the comment :) It makes me super happy to see people enjoying my work. Glad you like it!
Hi, how can i allow normal players to set their colors, instead of just OPs?
In reply to Forge_User_17804684:
Hey!
To do this, you need to download a permissions manager plugin. I would recommend PermissionsEx. Once you've done that and learned how to use it, you need to give the necessary permissions to your players.
Hope this helps!
Hi, is there a way to set it so that certain ranks talk in gray for example while other ranks talk in white. If so do you mind sharing the command/permission that needs to be done to change that.
Thanks!