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 glow plugins

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.

Warning

For Minecraft versions below 1.13 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%'

Examples of glow plugins

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