DispNameChanger
About
DispNameChanger is a plugin that lets you easily change your display name or any other player's display name. In the current context of Bukkit, that means the username that is displayed on death, when you talk, etc etc etc. Optionally, if Spout* or TagAPI** is installed on the server, this plugin will change the display name above a users head.
*Do note that the Spout Client, SpoutCraft, is required to see this change.
**TagAPI has some restrictions in how it works in changing the display name. Please see the TagAPI page for limitations.
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Latest Version
Download the latest compiled version of the plugin here. Source Code (GitHub Repository)
- Plugin Version: 6.0.0 | May 11th, 2013
- Bukkit Compatibility: Recommended Build: 1.5.2-RC0.1
Beta Version
Download the latest compiled beta version of the plugin here.
- Plugin Version: None Currently Live
- Bukkit Compatibility: N/A
Known Issues
These are the currently known issues. For more information please check the ticket system.
- Names that are right at 16 characters and have the prefix option enabled will be truncated by the plugin.
- Commands with Display Names don't work in server console (yet).
- If a killer's in-game name is the same as any words previous to the name in a death message, the wrong word will get replaced with the displayname.
Frequently Asked Questions
Users can find the FAQ to this plugin here.
Features
This is the current feature set of the plugin.
- Change the display name of a specified player, including yourself.
- Can use spaces in name by surrounding with quotes ""
- Supports Bukkit SuperPerms
- Persistence: Display names last through session changes (Thanks to Sammy)
- Supports Colors (Thanks to itsacoshop247)
- Spout: If installed, changes player's names above heads (Only if the client is using SpoutCraft).
- Ability to toggle title integration as well as announcements on name change
- New TagAPI: If installed the plugin will use TagAPI to replace the name above a players head.
- Please see the TagAPI page for a features list in how it works with Vanilla Servers.
- If Spout and TagAPI are both enabled on a server, TagAPI Support will be disabled in preference of Spout.
- Ability to toggle kick/quit/death message integration.
- Scoreboard/PlayerList integration
- All display names must be unique
- Localization now added!
- English
- French
- If you would like to translate the plugin into your language, please check this page here.
- DispName Prefix: Users can now turn on a Prefix that will be prepended to user names to signify that a username has been changed.
- Prefixes can now be colored.
- Display Names can be used in other commands like /kick and /tp.
- Command Filtering to prevent all names being replaced in commands.
- Display names can be globally announced, either to everyone or only those with the 'dispname.announce' permission node.
- Can restrict usage of the following chat Style codes using the following nodes:
- Bold | dispname.color.bold
- Italic | dispname.color.italic
- Magic | dispname.color.magic (Random characters)
- Strikethrough | dispname.color.strike
- Underline | dispname.color.underline
- Can restrict the usage of all Chat color codes.
- Can list all users with changed display name.
- Choose when to save Display Names!
- Completely disable saving! (Will warn user if this happens).
- Display List Command now Paginated!
- Pagination can be disabled by setting pagination to 0.
Possible Features
- Censorit Integration
- Suggestions?
More Information
You can find more about the plugin on the projects GitHub Wiki page. This includes commands, permission nodes, and the like.
Credits
Credit is needed where credit is due.
- captainawesome7 | Original Author
- itsatacoshop247 | Contributor
- Daxiongmao87 | Contributor
- Luke Zwekii | Contributor
- Sammy | Contributor
- bearbear12345 | Contributor
- morganm | Contributor
ChangeLog
Current change log for the plugin, last 2 versions.
[ ! ] Signifies a change or Bug Fix.
[ + ] Signifies the addition of something.
[ - ] Signifies the removal of something.
Version 6.0.0
- [ ! ] Resolved Reset Name Bug
- [ ! ] Resolved killer's Name being used instead of Display Name.
- [ + ] Added TagAPI Support.
- [ - ] Removed some left over debug lines.
Version 5.9.0
- [ ! ] Resolved bug with Command filter not properly filtering when number of commands to filter was greater than 0.
- [ + ] Added Ability to toggle spout title integration, as well as spout announcement for name changes.
- [ + ] Added Configuration options to config.yml for spout integration.
- [ + ] Converted project to Gradle. Building is as simple as ensuring you have Gradle installed, and calling gradle build on the plugin. The project can also easily be converted to a maven project if you so choose as well since the directory structures are roughly the same.
- [ - ] Removed some left over debug lines.
If you have questions, concerns, or just generally want to talk about the plugin, please do so here. Otherwise, general comments are welcome on the main page.

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Posted Jul 13, 2012Excellent, I will watch for an email then (subscribed already)
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Posted Jul 13, 2012@Trouvo
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Posted Jul 13, 20121. Heroes adds the class prefix by changing the displayname, so set that to false lol 2. A permission node for using colors with dnc would be great
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Posted Jul 13, 2012@Trouvo
If you want me to, I can add in a set of permission nodes for colored nicks? It won't happen until maybe tomorrow night... I currently have a set of changes I need to push out anyways so adding in this new feature before the push would be ideal and possible.
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Posted Jul 13, 2012got it fixed, but how do i stop any player from using color in their name?
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Posted Jul 11, 2012pm sent
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@Trouvo
Bounce me your server IP, either here or in PM so I can check it out myself.
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Posted Jul 11, 2012essentials config set to allow other plugins no one is in disguise...not even the robots lol
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@Trouvo
You have essentials installed. Is essentials configured to use another plugin's display name?
And are the users Disgused at all with DisguiseCraft?
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@Trouvo
So, Player killertomas2 joins the server, and it shows Drak'suko, but then reverts back to Killertomas2?
I removed saving on player leave. The plugin still saves whenever you change a players name.
Type plugins into console and hand me the list.
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Posted Jul 11, 2012i did notice in your changelog that name saving was removed until the error in conjunction with mobdisguise was fixed on version 5.5.2, but there was no indication it was re-added after
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Posted Jul 11, 2012that is it so far, but it does not keep their names for some reason, it will show when they login but then go back to their mcname right after login.....
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@Trouvo
I see two entries for trouvo and killertomas2: Trouvo and Drak'suko.
Is there someone else it's supposed to be restoring names for?
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Posted Jul 11, 2012http://db.tt/fr0zJrdb
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@Trouvo
It's working fine on my server. Can you upload your DB to somewhere so I can look at it?
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Posted Jul 11, 2012it works fine when using /rename but it does not save the name after someone relogs
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@Trouvo
That sounds more like a bug than anything else. What version are you using, what plugins are installed, and are there any errors in Console?
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Posted Jul 11, 2012yes when a player logs back in the dnc name is gone
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@Trouvo
Are you having issues with a plugin changing the display name and DNC isn't saving it?