How to make TAB compatible with glow plugins

This guide will explain how to solve the incompatibility with glow plugins.

Content

• Reason for compatibility issue
• Solution
• Examples of compatible plugins
• Additional info

Reason for compatibility issue

Glow color is managed by scoreboard teams, which also handle nametag formatting and player sorting in tablist. Only one plugin can handle teams at a time. Because of that, TAB will prevent glow plugins from assigning players into teams.

Solution

The solution to get around this issue is to use the glow plugin's placeholder (if it has any).
This placeholder has to be at the end of the player's tagprefix as it has to be the last color in the prefix.
NOTE: For Minecraft version 1.9 - 1.12 the prefix can't be longer than 14 characters due to 16 character limit total (glow placeholder adds 2 characters - & and the color code)

Example: This example uses the placeholder of the eGlow plugin.

groups.yml

_DEFAULT_:
  tagprefix: '%vault-prefix%%eglow_glowcolor%'

Keep in mind glow color is the same as name color. That's because there's only one field handling both values. However, you can bypass this with Unlimited nametag mode. When enabling it, you'll get access to customtagname property, which is really just a part of the final armor stand string and can be freely modified.

To do so, you can configure for example

_DEFAULT_:
  customtagname: '&2%player%'

With this example, all players will have green visible name, despite their glow color.

Examples of glow plugins with placeholders

• eGlow (%eglow_glowcolor%) (Free)
• CMI (%cmi_user_glow_code%) (Paid)
• ... more ?