ModernTags 2.0

A modern plugin for displaying custom tags above player heads

✨ Features


🎨 Full Customization	Configure tag appearance: color, shadows, transparency, alignment, size and more
🎬 Animated Tags	Support for multiple frames with configurable animation speed
🖥️ Dual Renderer	Text Display entities for 1.19.4+ clients, Scoreboard Teams for older ones — picked automatically per viewer
🔀 Condition System	`owner-conditions` and `viewer-conditions` let you select the right tag group with arbitrary logic
🏆 Priority System	Tag groups and entries are sorted by priority; the highest-priority match wins
👁️ Viewer-Aware Placeholders	`{owner:key}` and `{viewer:key}` let you show different content depending on who is looking
📌 PlaceholderAPI	Any PAPI placeholder works out of the box
👑 Vault Integration	Automatic insertion of prefixes and suffixes from permission systems
🫥 Sneak Dimming	Tags fade for crouching players on 1.19.4+ clients, matching vanilla behavior
🔗 TAB Compatibility	ModernTags manages Scoreboard Teams internally — no need to disable TAB's nametag display

⚡ Technical Advantages

The plugin is built on PacketEvents — all rendering is done through packets, not Bukkit APIs.
Component building via GikyMessage reduces allocations and speeds up placeholder replacement.
Fully supports Folia and all Paper forks (Paper, Purpur, etc.).

🔧 Configuration Example

# config.yml
tags:
  - priority: 0
    entries:
      - priority: 0
        modern: tags/default.yml:<root>
        legacy: tags/default-legacy.yml:<root>
 
  - priority: 1
    owner-conditions: "hasPermission('moderntags.tag.vip')"
    entries:
      - priority: 0
        modern: tags/vip.yml:modern
        legacy: tags/vip.yml:legacy

# tags/default.yml (modern — Text Display, 1.19.4+)
frame-update-rate: -1
placeholders-update-rate: 10
frames:
  - text: |-
      {owner:prefix}&r{owner:name}{owner:suffix}
      &c❤&f{owner:health}
    shadowed: true
    y-offset: 0.15
    background-color: "#00000000"

# tags/default-legacy.yml (legacy — Scoreboard Teams, below 1.19.4)
frame-update-rate: -1
placeholders-update-rate: 10
preserve-player-name-color: true
frames:
  - prefix: "{owner:prefix}"
    name-color: "white"
    suffix: "{owner:suffix}"

💬 Commands & Permissions

Commands

/moderntags reload — reload plugin configuration Permissions
moderntags.see.own — visibility of own tag
moderntags.reload — access to reload command

📦 Dependencies

Required:

PacketEvents 2.0+ Optional:
PlaceholderAPI
Vault

ModernTags

Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

Platforms

Links

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