HoloAPI

An advanced and powerful holographic display plugin


Features
With the discovery of new hologram technology (as seen in the video below), HoloAPI is designed to bring you a seamless experience in holographic display creation through the powerful command base and API.
Providing advanced Hologram Technology for your Bukkit server, HoloAPI has the following features (and more!):
| Easily manage your own holographic displays | |
| Create Holographic displays with images, animations (GIFs) and multi-line text | |
| Allows developers to create and manage their own holographic displays through the extensive API | |
| Holographic chat bubbles (captions) that show chat messages above the speaker'a head | |
| Animated text support | |
| Automatic UTF-8 character formatting and replacing | |
| Super smooth Animated Holograms and hologram teleportation! | |
| Automatic tag replacement e.g. "Hello there %name%!" (Where name is replaced with the observer's name) | |
| Holographic chat bubbles with in-built support for VanishNoPacket | |
| TouchScreen Holograms with an extensive and easy to use API | |
| Floating Item displays with easy to use tags - %item:id% | |
| BungeeCord support for TouchScreen holograms and online count placeholders | |
| Supports Bukkit from 1.6.4 through to 1.7.9 and MCPC+ 1.6.4 |
Stay up to date and make sure you have the latest version of HoloAPI!
This extensive API is designed to provide you with the easiest, most feature packed resources for creating and managing your own holograms.

HoloAPI also uses intelligent image-translation technology (thanks to @bobacadodl) to transform ordinary images into futuristic holograms that can enhance your server in ways that you have never imagined.


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Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.

Commands and Permissions
| Command | Permission | Description |
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| /holoupdate | holoapi.update | Update HoloAPI if a new version has been found. |
| /holo | holoapi.holo | Base HoloAPI command. All in-game methods for creating holographic displays can be found under this command. Entering this command by itself will provide version information for HoloAPI. |
| /holo create | holoapi.holo.create | Create a holographic display. Lines can be entered one after each other. |
| /holo create image <image_id> | holoapi.holo.create | Create a holographic display from an image. See the Configuration page on the Wiki for more information on how to set this up. |
| /holo create animation | holoapi.holo.create | Create an animated holographic display from lines of text. |
| /holo create animation <animation_id> | holoapi.holo.create | Create an animated hologram. See the Configuration Wiki page for info on how to set up GIFs. |
| /holo remove <id> | holoapi.holo.remove | Remove a hologram by its assigned ID. |
| /holo info | holoapi.holo.info | View all active holographic displays and their respective IDs. |
| /holo move <id> | holoapi.holo.move | Move a hologram to your current position. |
| /holo teleport <id> | holoapi.holo.teleport | Teleport to a specific hologram. |
| /holo build | holoapi.holo.build | Dynamically build a combined hologram of both text and images. |
| /holo edit <id> <line> | holoapi.holo.edit | Edit a line of an existing hologram. |
| /holo edit <id> <line> <content> | holoapi.holo.edit | Edit a line of an existing hologram. The content can be more than one line. |
| /holo nearby <radius> | holoapi.holo.nearby | View information on all nearby holograms within the specified radius |
| /holo copy <id> | holoapi.holo.copy | Copy an existing hologram to your current position. |
| /holo refresh <id> | holoapi.holo.refresh | Refresh a Hologram of the specified ID. |
| /holo reload | holoapi.holo.reload | Reload all configuration files and holograms |
TouchScreen Hologram Commands
| Command | Permission | Description |
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| /holo touch add <id> <command> | holoapi.holo.touch.add | Add an action for a certain hologram to perform when touched. Actions defined without the use of the API (through this command) may only be commands. The `%name%` placeholder can be used to define the user that touched the hologram. Commands can be more than one word. |
| /holo touch add <id> <command> <as_console> | holoapi.holo.touch.add | Same functionality as `/holo touch add <command>`. `<as_console>` defines whether the action is performed by the console or the player that touched the hologram |
| /holo touch remove <id> <touch_id> | holoapi.holo.touch.remove | Remove an action for a TouchScreen hologram, where `<touch_id>` is the ID of the TouchAction. To remove a command-based Touch Action, simply enter the command" |
| /holo touch clear <id> | holoapi.holo.touch.clear | Clear all Touch Actions for a particular TouchScreen hologram |
| /holo touch info <id> | holoapi.holo.touch.info | View information on all Touch Actions for a particular TouchScreen hologram |

Configuration

Metrics
Metrics is used to collect plugin statistics. Only data such as plugin version and players online is collected. If you do not wish for this data to be collected, disable it in the 'Plugin Metrics' folder of your 'plugins' directory.

Update Checking
HoloAPI comes with an auto-updater to save you, as a server owner, from continually checking this page for new files. It simply connects to dev.bukkit.org and compares the versions of available files. If you do not wish for HoloAPI to perform this check, navigate to the Configuration File (config.yml) in the HoloAPI directory of your plugins folder and change "checkForUpdates" and "autoUpdate" to "false". The first value disables the version comparison altogether and the second updates the plugin automatically if new files are detected.

Plugins Using HoloAPI
Some of the plugins that utilise the powerful features in HoloAPI:
...And many more!


Credit to Asdjke for coming up with the idea


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Posted Mar 8, 2014@wes228 It is both a stand-alone hologram plugin and a fully-featured API :).
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Posted Mar 8, 2014@DSH105
Sorry i'm kinda a noob is this plugin like barapi?
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Posted Mar 8, 2014@FlOppythp If you avoid using images and large holograms you probably won't notice any difference in performance at all.
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Posted Mar 8, 2014@wes228 It is, but your created plugin must be released under the same license as this project, as per the GPLv3 (meaning that it can't be private). It's probably better to just use the API.
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Posted Mar 8, 2014Is this plugin open source can we rewrite it in any way to make are own private plugins?
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Posted Mar 7, 2014@InsomniaCraft Make sure you are using the latest version. This has been fixed in v1.0.5 and above :).
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Posted Mar 7, 2014Sometimes the tags vanish when leaving the area and coming back. They come back if I reload. This is happening to everyone
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Posted Mar 7, 2014@DSH105
Alright Thanks. ;D
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Posted Mar 7, 2014@pompy5685 Nope :D. Should work perfectly without animals enabled.
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Posted Mar 7, 2014Do You Need Animals enabled on the server in order for this to work?
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Posted Mar 7, 2014@DSH105
Still bugged. \q If you want to check it on my server just send a pm and i will give you our IP.
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Posted Mar 7, 2014@tomori_peti Attempted to implement a fix for that tonight. Report back so I know if it's still happening :). Alternatively, you can try either /holo reload or /holo refresh <id> (as of newest snapshot) to refresh the display of a certain hologram.
@InsomniaCraft I'm afraid that is client-side :(. The visibility should be that same as that of mob nametags in the same area.
@TheTwinyx ;D
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Posted Mar 6, 2014Nice plugin, much less complicated than the original / alternative holo plugin. I noticed that there is a significant different in the brightness of the nameplates at night time vs day time. Can something be implemented to ignore the time of day?
I've tried lightning the surrounding area, it made no difference.
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Posted Mar 6, 2014Its a really nice API!
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Posted Mar 6, 2014@Kyorax Try using the latest Dev build.
@CComixs I'm working on compatibility for 1.6
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Posted Mar 6, 2014@CComixs
I'm pretty sure this can only be done on 1.7+.
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Posted Mar 6, 2014I mean modded not nodded.
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Posted Mar 6, 2014Can u make a version for 1.6.4, I wanna have it for my nodded server.
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Posted Mar 6, 2014Hi, I've got a problem: When I create Holograms, I am the only one who can see them. Do my users need some permission node for that?
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Posted Mar 6, 2014@DSH105
Yes 1.0.6