Server Chat Heads

Name: Server Chat Heads
Author: Camper_Samu

Plz Mojang optimize font rendering

Use player heads in chat and more via placeholders! Credits to CatDevz for making the original Minestom code.

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How it works

When a player joins its skin gets downloaded and the colors of the pixels of the face get extracted and put in a User UUID, TextColor[][] Map, when the placeholder gets invoked, it searches for the user in that map and tries to print the head in chat using negative spaces and a custom pixel font.

Placeholders

Placeholder	Function
`%chatheads:player%`	Print the invoker's head
`%chatheads:player [target]%`	Print the target's head

Bleeding edge builds

Upstream builds are available in via GitHub Actions.

Credits

CatDevz for making the original Minestom code
Camper_Samu (me) for making the Fabric port
TheEpicBlock for PolyMC
Patbox for Polymer, a part of PolyMC and the core of many Serverside mods (like this one)
Fabric Server-Side Development Discord for helping me while making this mod and other mods (like WAYF? or PolyForgery)

License

This template is available under the GPLv3 license. Feel free to learn from it and incorporate it in your own projects following the license's guidelines.

All Versions

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Release Channel

Name	Game version	Platforms	Published	Downloads	Actions
R v0.4+1.21.1 - Update to 1.21.1	1.21.x	Fabric Quilt	last yr.	1	Download Open in new tab Copy link Report
R v0.3+1.20.5 - Update to 1.20.5 & Minor Improvements	1.20.x	Fabric Quilt	last yr.	1	Download Open in new tab Copy link Report
R v0.2+1.20.1 - Backport to 1.20.1	1.20.x	Fabric Quilt	last yr.	1	Download Open in new tab Copy link Report
R v0.2+1.20.4 - Update to 1.20.4 & Fixes	1.20.x	Fabric Quilt	last yr.	1	Download Open in new tab Copy link Report
R v0.1 for Minecraft 1.19.2 - Initial Release	1.19.2	Fabric Quilt	last yr.	1	Download Open in new tab Copy link Report

[0.4+1.21.1] v0.4+1.21.1 - Update to 1.21.1 by Camper_Samu on Sep 12, 2024

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Hey all, long time no see!

This new release brings ServerChatHeads to 1.21.1.
Nothing fancy, nothing special, [Forgix](https://github.com/PacifistMC/Forgix) port still planned for when I have the time to do it.

Enjoy!

### Changelog

Ported the mod to 1.21.1
Updated bundled Polymer AutoHost
Updated bundled Text Placeholder API

GitHub Release**: https://github.com/CampHQmc/ServerChatHeads/releases/tag/v0.4+1.21.1

Full Changelog**: https://github.com/CampHQmc/ServerChatHeads/compare/v0.3+1.20.5...v0.4+1.21.1

[0.3+1.20.5] v0.3+1.20.5 - Update to 1.20.5 & Minor Improvements by Camper_Samu on Apr 30, 2024

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To my surprise, the code mostly survived to the update!

Because of this I decided to do a bit of housekeeping and add some annoyances, fixes and I took the time to read the code ~50 times before realizing I am not handling an IO Exception that **everyone** dodged until a couple of weeks ago, whoops!</br>
This fixes won't be backported until I figure out how to handle a Forgix project, once that's done this is going my first cross-version mod, with all the fixes applied on every version!

### Changelog

Ported the mod to 1.20.5
Polymer AutoHost is now included with this mod** (since you usually need it when using SCH, installing Polymer externally should overwrite the embedded version)
Added a warning when Polymer AutoHost is not enabled (or Arte is not installed, if that's the case you are on your own since I don't have experience with that mod)
Fixed and prevented a crash when Auth or Skin servers are not available
Minor improvements (code cleanups, better logging, better error handling)