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zChat is a very simple chat manager for Bukkit. It was optimized to work with zPermission and requires Vault (other permissions plugins which uses Vault should also work, I only tested the plugin with bPermissions).

List of features:

color chat
local chat (optional)
prefix/suffix support
Factions support

zChat was originally forked of the bChatManager which was originally forked off the PEX ChatManager. :)

Installation

Make sure you have following plugins installed and configured:

Vault
Vault-supported permissions system (there is a list on the Vault page)

Put the zChat.jar into the plugins folder and the plugin will generate a config folder.

Config


formats:
 
    message-format: '[%world] %prefix %player: &f%message'

    local-message-format: '[LOCAL] %prefix %player: &f%message'

toggles:

    ranged-mode: false

    factions-support: false

other:

    chat-range: 100.0

message-format - Format of a chat message when ranged mode is disabled or a global message format if ranged mode is enabled
local-message-format - Explains itself :)
ranged-mode - Disable or enable local chat
factions-support - Disable or enable factions support. Be sure to disable that, if you don't have Factions plugin, otherwise you will get errors
chat-range - Local chat radius

Available placeholders: %world, %prefix, %suffix, %player, %message, %displayname, %faction
Place "!" before your message to write in to the global chat.

Permissions

zchat.spy - Allowes you to see all local and global messages. Useful for moderators.
zchat.color - Allowes you to use color codes in the chat

Source Code

Source Code on GitHub

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PhoenixDIE
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Posted Jan 17, 2021
Just fyi, have this working on a Tekkit/bukkit server running cauldron. Working on a 1.6.4 mc tekkit 1.2.9i server. Booya :D thanks for the awesome mod man :D works well with zpermissions.

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Posted Oct 7, 2020
I have an issue with a specific group rank the helper rank i used a command /setjoin helper "joined the game! and /setchat helper" username joined the game! How to i remove these commands? How can I turn off the chat formattation for this group helper?

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Posted Apr 26, 2015
Not Support Plugin Jobs

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Posted Nov 29, 2014
I have a problem, when users join my server for the first time, they are not put in the default group, or any group for that matter. That means I have to manually put the users in the default group and I can't keep up with which ones I have, and which I haven't. Please respond quickly.

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Posted Jul 6, 2014
If you use PwnFilter for chat altering, don't use zChat until it's updated. PwnFilter will do warnings and trigger events, such as kicks and such, but will not successfully alter chat.

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Posted May 11, 2014
Hi can you uptade the plugins plus :D

DeadMiners.servegame.com:25550

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Posted Feb 5, 2014
faction-support doesn't work for 1.7.2 Faction

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Posted Jan 28, 2014
Whenever we say % it breaks chat.

Edit: Seems you fixed it in the github source, going to build that.

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Posted Jan 2, 2014
Is it possible to have a player specific message-format? I'm using zPermissions and I tried this:

/perm group Owner metadata set message-format "%prefix..."

Unfortunately it didn't work. An alternative to a custom message-format would be a way to color the name, is that possible?

Cheers

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Posted Oct 27, 2013
hello, Your plugin is good but can you add permissions to the global chat? so that the player does not had this permission can't speak in global chat. This will greatly improve your plugin!

Sorry for my translate, i'm french ^^

leboucher_

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Posted Sep 25, 2013
@hamzaxx

(zPermissions configuration? It's the file on X:\IDK\plugins I suppose :P) I deleted it. Still doesn't work.

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Posted Sep 23, 2013
@Rapidgame7

Are you running vault if you are try deleting your all your zpermissions data.

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Posted Sep 23, 2013
@hamzaxx

Nope, 0% errors... Maybe I have to delete the config file first? I will test.

EDIT: Deleted the config file. Doesn't work. I'm using zChat 0.3.1

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Posted Sep 22, 2013
@Rapidgame7 Its working fine for me any errors?

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#26 Posted Sep 22, 2013

The "%" character problem is still present. here is the error:

11:43:58 [SEVERE] Could not pass event AsyncPlayerChatEvent to zChat v0.3.1
org.bukkit.event.EventException
        at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.ja
va:427)
        at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.jav
a:62)
        at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.fireEvent(SimplePluginManager.j
ava:477)
        at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.j
ava:459)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R3.PlayerConnection.chat(PlayerConnection.j
ava:882)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R3.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java
:834)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R3.Packet3Chat.handle(SourceFile:49)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R3.NetworkManager.i(NetworkManager.java:213
)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R3.NetworkManager.c(NetworkManager.java:351
)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R3.NetworkReaderThread.run(SourceFile:94)
Caused by: java.util.UnknownFormatConversionException: Conversion = '%'
        at org.bukkit.event.player.AsyncPlayerChatEvent.setFormat(AsyncPlayerCha
tEvent.java:82)
        at ru.gksu.mc.zChat.zChatListener.onPlayerChat(zChatListener.java:102)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.ja
va:425)
        ... 9 more

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Posted Sep 21, 2013
When I chat, I only see my name, but not my prefix, nor the other things I've put in the config.

I have this in the configuration file:

# Available placeholders: %prefix, %suffix, %world, %displayname, %player, %faction formats: message-format: '&8[&8%prefix&8] &a%suffix&a &f<&f%player&f>&f &f%message' local-message-format: '[LAKKOL] %prefix %player: &f%message' toggles: ranged-mode: false factions-support: false other: chat-range: 95.0

I'm expecting to get the dark gray square brackets with my prefix, but instead of

[OP] <Rapidgame7> i hate hating the haters... i hate them

I only see

<Rapidgame7> textMEEMtext

I'm doing anything wrong now? :P (Or I had to first delete the config file before downloading the new version?)
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Posted Sep 20, 2013
@Rapidgame7

Fixed.

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Posted Sep 20, 2013
@rymate1234

When I have forked it, your plugin was not usable with zPermissions because of the NullPointerException which was thrown. The problem was in the zPermissions API, it returned 'null' if the player had no prefix. So I've added the check for the 'null'. Another point was that zPermissions Chat Hook had no method to get directly the prefix of the player's main group. So I had to use Vault permissions hook to get main group and then I was able to get the prefix of the main group.

Why I didn't made a pull request? Because I've seen that there were no changes for about three months , so it was improbable that you will see it.

Here is an example of the code I've changed:

private String getPlayerPrefix(Player player){ String prefix = chat.getPlayerPrefix(player); if(prefix == null || prefix.equals("")){ String group = permission.getPrimaryGroup(player); prefix = chat.getGroupPrefix(player.getWorld().getName(),group); if(prefix == null){ prefix = ""; } } return prefix; }
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Posted Sep 19, 2013
After I've upgraded zChat to 0.3 the messages are now appearing doubled! Please fix it!

Meanwhile I'll use the previous version...

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Posted Sep 19, 2013
@rymate1234

nice find o.O

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Project ID

56987
Created

May 6, 2013
Last Released File

Sep 20, 2013
Total Downloads

19,276
License

GNU General Public License ver...

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