Solved Name above head

how to change the name above a players head?

 

I think you are looking for this: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tagapi-change-color-the-name-over-peoples-heads.99485/

 

That works, But it changes their skin.. Is there a way to do it without changing their skin?

 

No.

 

Are you just changing the color, or are you actually changing their name?

 

Changing the name. But I'll just deal with it not keeping the skin :3

 

Does it work without spout or another client mod?

 

Works without any client mods :3

 

After thinking a bit I remember that there are tags that already exist in Minecraft.
I had not thought about it

 

Works Fine if you have a spout client. Reason it would change the skin, is because its changing the player kind and giving that player the skin of the player that owns that name. But with spout no problem minus the fact that everyone has to have a spout client to see it.

 

Under 1.3.2 coloring names does not always break skin, players with name long enough to get truncated by the addition of the color codes will have broken skins, while other players with shorter names will have colored tags and their correct skins.

From the client -

this.skinUrl = "http://skins.minecraft.net/MinecraftSkins/" + StringUtils.stripControlCodes(par3Session.username)

stripControlCodes does the trick.