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Contents

• Installation
• Example plugin with which uses HologramLib

First Steps

   • Initializing Manager
   • Rendering Modes
   • Creation
   • Text Animations
   • Leaderboards
   • Passengers
   • Viewers
   • Transformations
   • Management

Features

• Text, Block & Item Holograms
• Text animations
• Minimessage support
• Packet based
• Per player holograms
• Leaderboard generators
• Advanced hologram customization
• Attachment and parenting support
• Flexible rendering modes

Installation

• Download packet events https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/80279/
• Download HologramLib-[version].jar file from the latest release
• Upload the HologramLib-[version].jar and packet events file on your server (yourserver/plugins folder)
• Add the plugin as a dependency to your plugin and use it

Note

You might also want to add packetevents as a compile-only dependency to your plugin
if you want to use (import) certain features, such as the ItemStack for the item hologram.

Gradle installation

repositories {
  maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

dependencies {
  compileOnly 'com.github.max1mde:HologramLib:1.6.4'
}

Maven installation

<repository>
  <id>jitpack.io</id>
  <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.max1mde</groupId>
  <artifactId>HologramLib</artifactId>
  <version>1.6.4</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Add this to your plugin plugin.yml

depend:
  - HologramLib

Important

Using minimize() in your shadow jar configuration could break HologramLib.

Example/Showcase Plugin

https://github.com/max1mde/ExampleHologramPlugin

First Steps

Initializing HologramManager

private HologramManager hologramManager;

@Override
public void onLoad() {
    HologramLib.onLoad(this); /*Only needed if you shade HologramLib*/
}

@Override
public void onEnable() {
    HologramLib.getManager().ifPresentOrElse(
        manager -> hologramManager = manager,
        () -> getLogger().severe("Failed to initialize HologramLib manager.")
    );
}

Hologram Rendering Modes

// Different rendering modes available
TextHologram hologram = new TextHologram("example", RenderMode.NEARBY);
// Modes include:
// - NEARBY: Render for players near the hologram
// - ALL: Render for all online players
// - VIEWER_LIST: Render only for manually added viewers
// - NONE: Do not render

Note

Display.Billboard.CENTER = the hologram rotates to the player like a nametag (default value)
Display.Billboard.FIXED = The holograms rotation is fixed
Display.Billboard.VERTICAL = The hologram only rotates to the left and right (is horizontally fixed)
Display.Billboard.HORIZONTAL = The hologram only rotates up and down (is vertically fixed)

Hologram Creation

Text Hologram

TextHologram hologram = new TextHologram("unique_id")
    .setMiniMessageText("<aqua>Hello world!")
    .setSeeThroughBlocks(false)
    .setBillboard(Display.Billboard.VERTICAL)
    .setShadow(true)
    .setScale(1.5F, 1.5F, 1.5F)
    .setTextOpacity((byte) 200)
    .setBackgroundColor(Color.fromARGB(60, 255, 236, 222).asARGB())
    .setAlignment(TextDisplay.TextAlignment.CENTER)
    .setViewRange(1.0)
    .setMaxLineWidth(200);

Item Hologram

ItemHologram itemHologram = new ItemHologram("unique_id")
    .setItem(new ItemStack.Builder()
        .type(ItemTypes.DIAMOND_SWORD)
        .build())
    .setGlowing(true)
    .setGlowColor(Color.CYAN)
    .setOnFire(false)
    .setDisplayType(ItemDisplayMeta.DisplayType.CENTER)
    .setBillboard(Display.Billboard.VERTICAL)
    .setScale(2.0F, 2.0F, 0.01F);

Block Hologram

BlockHologram blockHologram = new BlockHologram("unique_id")
    .setBlock(1) 
    .setOnFire(false)
    .setBillboard(Display.Billboard.VERTICAL)
    .setScale(1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F)
    .setViewRange(1.0);

Spawning any hologram (including leaderboard objects)

hologramManager.spawn(hologram, location);

Hologram Animation

1. Creating a Basic Text Animation

To get started with text animations, you first need to create a TextAnimation object and add frames (text lines) to it. Each frame represents a state of the hologram's text that will be displayed during the animation cycle.

/*
*Creating a basic text animation with a 20-tick delay and 20-tick speed
*/
TextAnimation textAnimation = new TextAnimation()
    .setDelay(20) // Delay before starting the animation (20 ticks = 1 second)
    .setSpeed(20) // Speed at which the animation updates (20 ticks = 1 second)

textAnimation.addFrame("Hello World!")
    .addFrame("Welcome to HologramLib")
    .addFrame("Enjoy the animations!");

/*
* Applying the animation to a hologram
* which also automatically starts playing the animation
*/
hologramManager.applyAnimation(someHologram, textAnimation);

In the example above, the TextAnimation object is created with a delay and speed setting. Then, we add multiple text frames, which will be shown in sequence.

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2. Typing Animation

To simulate a typing effect, we can slowly reveal text frame by frame. Here’s how to set up a typing animation:

TextAnimation typingAnimation = new TextAnimation()
    .setDelay(5)
    .setSpeed(5);

typingAnimation.addFrame("T")
    .addFrame("Ty")
    .addFrame("Typ")
    .addFrame("Type")
    .addFrame("Typing");

hologramManager.applyAnimation(someHologram, typingAnimation);

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3. Color Changing Animation

You can also animate the color of the hologram text. Here’s an example of a color-changing animation using MiniMessage formatting.

TextAnimation colorChangeAnimation = new TextAnimation()
    .setDelay(20)
    .setSpeed(20);

colorChangeAnimation.addFrame("<red>Red Text</red>")
    .addFrame("<green>Green Text</green>")
    .addFrame("<blue>Blue Text</blue>");

hologramManager.applyAnimation(someHologram, colorChangeAnimation);

In this case, each frame will change the color of the text using the MiniMessage syntax. You can replace the <color> tags with any color code supported by MiniMessage.

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4. Modifying animations

There are a few more methods in the TextAnimation class which you can use.

TextAnimation animation = new TextAnimation()...;

animation.clearFrames();
animation.addFrame(<text>);
animation.removeFrame(<index>);
animation.removeLastFrame();
animation.removeFirstFrame();

Leaderboard Creation

Map<Integer, String> leaderboardData = new LinkedHashMap<>() {{
    put(1, "MaximDe:1000");
    put(2, "dream:950");
    put(3, "BastiGHG:500");
    put(4, "Wichtiger:400");
    // ... more entries
}};

LeaderboardHologram leaderboard = hologramManager.generateLeaderboard(
        location,
        leaderboardData,
        LeaderboardHologram.LeaderboardOptions.builder()
                .title("Top Players - Kills")
                .showEmptyPlaces(true)
                .scale(1.2f)
                .maxDisplayEntries(10)
                .suffix("kills")
                .topPlayerHead(true)
                .build()
);

/*
 Update the leaderboard later if needed
 */
hologramManager.updateLeaderboard(
        leaderboard,
        updatedData,
        /*
         ou can also use different options here 
         which will be applied to the leaderboard
         */
        leaderboard.getOptions()
);

Setting a hologram as a passenger

hologramManager.attach(hologram, parentEntityId);

Managing Hologram Viewers

This only makes sense if you set the holograms RenderMode to VIEWER_LIST

hologram.addViewer(player);
hologram.removeViewer(player);
hologram.removeAllViewers();

// The players who see the hologram
List<Player> currentViewers = hologram.getViewers();

Advanced Transformations

hologram.setTranslation(0, 1, 0) 
    .setLeftRotation(0, 1, 0, 0) 
    .setRightRotation(0, 1, 0, 0)
    .update();  // Apply changes (make them visible to the player)

Hologram Retrieval and Management

Optional<TextHologram> retrievedHologram = hologramManager.getHologram("unique_id");

hologramManager.remove("unique_id");

hologramManager.remove(hologram/leaderboard);

hologramManager.removeAll();

Projects using HologramLib

• TypingInChat Plugin by Orphey

Contributions to this repo or the example plugin are welcome!