Messages in 1.8

Hey guys,
i have a question. I want to send big messages in the middle of the screen. Like on Mineplex after you joined the game, but i don't now how to do it.
I hope you can help me
Thx
Ole

 

You need to send a PacketPlayOutTitle trough the playerconnection.

 

You could also use the sendTitle() method

 

Is there one? I never found it before. I couldn't even find it now.

 

@mcdorli
Yeah there is one, it takes two arguments. The title and the subtitle strings.

 

Can you please show it, where you found it? I don't think people would request it for the spigot 1.9 update, if it is already in the API.

 

@mcdorli
It would be used like this, I am using right now for a plugin I am making.

Code:

player.sendTitle("Test","Title");

You can also find it here

https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/entity/Player.html

 

Thx, yes:
player.sendTitle("", "");

And the message directly over the hotbar?


EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

That's a actionbar. You need to send the second chat type with packets

PacketPlayOutChat(cbc, 2);

cbc is a IChatbBaseComponent, 2 is the id of the actionbar.
Don't forget, you need to send the message in a json file

 

I'd never worked with packets. Could you explain something?

 

@0LUMIN4T0R
What you are going to do requires a little understanding of packets.

Let me just post how you would go about this:

1. Create a "IChatBaseComponent" Heres a link on how to do that.
https://bukkit.org/threads/ichatbasecomponent-help.318790/
2.Edit that component to have the text you want to send.
3. Create this variable. (replacing cbc with your IChatBase)

4.Send the packet to the player. (Use player.getPlayer().getCraftPlayer().sendPacket(Your packet); )