Text Effects

Special text animations and coloring effects

Requires Minecraft 1.17+ clients
Doesn't work in Minecraft language files (game limitation)
Edits the rendertype_text shader files

What are text effects?

They are some cool decorative text effects you can use in your server to make it more professional.

How to enable them

You have to run /iazip in order to enable/disable this feature. Make sure also to enable it in the config.yml.

config.yml

text_effects:
  enabled: true
  chat:
    enabled: true
  customitem_name_and_lore:
    enabled: true
  sign:
    enabled: true
  book:
    enabled: true
  anvil:
    enabled: true

(click to see old config.yml properties from 4.0.7 and lower)

effects:
  text-effects:
    enabled: true # This option requires /iazip when changed.
    customitem-name-and-lore:
      enabled: true
    chat:
      enabled: true
    sign:
      enabled: true
    book:
      enabled: true
    anvil:
      enabled: true

You also have to give the permissions to each player.

Use text-effects in chat
- ia.user.text_effect.chat
Use text-effects in signs
- ia.user.text_effect.sign
Use text-effects in books
- ia.user.text_effect.book
Use text-effects in anvil rename field
- ia.user.text_effect.anvil
Use a text-effect
- ia.user.text_effect.use.<effect>

List of effects

Remove background

Permission: ia.user.text_effect.use.noshadow Usage: <noshadow text>

Note

in Minecraft 1.21.4 you can use "shadow_color":0 attribute in JSON components to hide the shadow. But this requires you to have knowledge about JSON components.

Rainbow

Permission: ia.user.text_effect.use.r Usage: <r text>

Wobble

Permission: ia.user.text_effect.use.w Usage: <w text>

Jump

Permission: ia.user.text_effect.use.j Usage: <j text>

Rainbow + Wobble

Permission: ia.user.text_effect.use.rw Usage: <rw text>

Rainbow + Jump

Permission: ia.user.text_effect.use.rj Usage: <rj text>

Blinking

Permission: ia.user.text_effect.use.b Usage: <b text>

Where can I use these effects?

Custom item name (in the .yml file)
Custom item lore (in the .yml file)
Chat
Sign
Book
Bossbar
Prefix-Suffix (Luckperms for example)
More soon....

How to create animated prefix (Luckperms)

/lp group admin meta setprefix "<rw ADMIN >"

Click here to read Luckperms official tutorials if you don't know how prefix works.

Using text effects without the placeholders

For some reason if you want to use text effects on areas which don't support ItemsAdder placeholders (like <r TEXT>) you can use another method.

These effects are triggered based on a special HEX color. So if the area where you want to show a text effect supports HEX colors you can do that.