Nicknames and Prefixes - CodeCrafter47/BungeeTabListPlus GitHub Wiki
This page explains how to configure your tab list such that nicknames and prefixes show up. There are several options to choose from:
- Use the
display_name
ortab_name
to display the name is likely make nicknames and prefixes appear with the least effort. However, it largely depends on the configuration of your other Bukkit plugins. - Use a plugin specific placeholder to display the nickname, such as
essentials_nickname
. - Display the prefix from your permission plugin using the
vault_prefix
placeholder or a placeholder specific to your permission plugin. - Create a set of custom prefixes specific to the tab list.
The playerComponent
option controls the appearance of player names on the tab list.
You can find that option in the DYNAMIC_SIZE
tab list as well as in all the components used to display players when using the FIXED_SIZE
tab list.
The following is a very basic way to set the playerComponent
option:
playerComponent: "${player name}"
- Using
display_name
ortab_name
- Using a Plugin Specific Nickname Placeholder
- Displaying the Prefix from a Permission Plugin
- Creating Custom Prefixes for the Tab List
This is a simple as replacing ${player name}
with ${player display_name}
or ${player tab_name}
.
The display_name
corresponds to Bukkits getDisplayName()
and tab_name
corresponds to getPlayerListName()
.
These are often set by other plugins.
The ${player display_name}
is what is used in the chat.
You should give that a try first.
However, it sometimes includes long prefixes which are not suitable for the tab list.
In that case you can try ${player tab_name}
.
If ${player tab_name}
does not show the nickname, check the configuration of your nickname plugin.
E.g. Essentials has an option change-playerlist
which needs to be enabled.
There is also ${player bungeecord_display_name}
which can be set by BungeeCord plugins.
However, there are few plugins using this, so unless you have a nickname plugin installed on BungeeCord, chances are this will not work.
You can use a plugin specific placeholder such as ${player essentials_nickname}
to display the nick name.
However, the problem with ${player essentials_nickname}
(and most other plugin specific nickname placeholders) is that it will display nothing if a player does not have a nickname.
That means it is not suitable as a direct replacement for the ${player name}
placeholder.
We can fix that issue by creating a custom placeholder that displays the nickname if it exists and the normal player name otherwise:
customPlaceholders:
# ...
player_name_or_nickname:
!conditional
condition: ${player essentials_nickname} != ""
true: ${player essentials_nickname}
false: ${player name}
Then we can replace ${player name}
with ${player_name_or_nickname}
.
Note: The ${player essentials_nickname}
placeholder used in this example is a PlaceholderAPI placeholder.
That means you need to install BungeeTabListPlus_BukkitBridge, PlaceholderAPI and the Essentials expansion on your Bukkit/ Spigot servers for it to work.
Additional Information:
To display the prefix from your permission plugin add the ${player vault_prefix}
placeholder before the ${player name}
in the playerComponent
option.
You will end up with something similar to the following:
playerComponent: "${player vault_prefix}${player name}"
Note:
You need to install BungeeTabListPlus_BukkitBridge and Vault on your Bukkit/ Spigot servers for the ${player vault_prefix}
placeholder to work.
As an alternative to ${player vault_prefix}
you can use a prefix placeholder specific to your permission plugin such as ${player luckperms_prefix}
.
However, we recommend using the Vault placeholder unless you have specific reasons for using a different one.
To create custom prefixes we use a custom placeholder.
customPlaceholders:
# ...
custom_prefix:
!switch
parameters: 1
expression: ${%0 vault_primary_group}
replacements:
"admin": "&c[A]&f"
"mod": "&b[M]&f"
"vip": "&b[V]&f"
defaultReplacement: "&7"
You can edit everything after replacements:
to suit your needs.
The lines immediately following after replacements:
map a prefix to each group.
On the left you write the group name, on the right the prefix.
The defaultReplacement
option is used to configure the prefix of players which do not have a prefix assigned using the replacements
option.
To display the prefix add the ${custom_prefix player}
placeholder before the ${player name}
in the playerComponent
option.
You will end up with something similar to the following:
playerComponent: "${custom_prefix player}${player name}"
As a bonus this also create a ${custom_prefix viewer}
placeholder that can be used anywhere in the tab list to display the prefix of the player looking at the tab list.
Note:
We used the vault_primary_group
placeholder which requires BungeeTabListPlus_BukkitBridge and Vault to be installed on all Bukkit/ Spigot servers.
As an alternative to vault_primary_group
you can use a placeholder specific to your permission plugin such as luckperms_primary_group
.
However, we recommend using the Vault placeholder unless you have specific reasons for using a different one.
Additional Information: