Item Flex

Item Flex is a lightweight, highly customizable plugin that lets players show off their held item with a clean, animated hologram effect.

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Item Flex

Item Flex

Item Flex is a plugin that gives players the ability to showcase their held item with a modern holographic display. With over 60 configuration options, you're able to tailor the plugin to your servers needs!

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📸 Showcase

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Features

- `/itemflex` command to display your held item - Animated hologram made with display entities for zero lag. - PlaceholderAPI & Hex Color Support - Works with items from plugins like `Nexo` and `ItemsAdder` - Fully customizable with over 60+ configuration options - Internal placeholders like `%item_lore%` and `%item_enchants%` for displaying complex item data. - Built-in cooldown system for limiting spam

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Default Configuration

View Default Configuration

```yaml Settings:

Configuration for plugin permissions and cooldowns.

Permissions:

If true, permission nodes will be enforced across the plugin.

If false, only server operators (OPs) can use /itemflex reload,

and all players will be subject to cooldowns.

Enabled: true

Permission node required to use the /itemflex command.

Use: "itemflex.use"

Permission node that allows a player to bypass the usage cooldown.

Bypass-Cooldown: "itemflex.cooldownbypass"

Permission node required to execute /itemflex reload.

Reload: "itemflex.reload"

Cooldown duration between uses of the /itemflex command.

Supports flexible time formats, e.g.:

"1m" = 1 minute

"2h 30m" = 2 hours and 30 minutes

Use-Cooldown: "1m"

Maximum number of lore lines shown from the %item_lore% placeholder.

If the item has more lore lines than this value, the rest will be skipped.

Set to 0 to disable lore entirely.

Lore-Line-Limit: 3

Whether to skip empty lines when displaying %item_lore%.

A line is considered empty if it contains no visible characters,

including lines that only contain color codes or formatting.

Ignore-Empty-Lore-Lines: true

Vertical spacing between each hologram line.

This controls how far apart the lines appear above the item.

Line-Spacing: 0.17

Text lines displayed above the item hologram.

Supports PlaceholderAPI placeholders, and internal such as

%item_name% — The display name of the held item.

%item_lore% — Each line of the item's lore (one hologram line per lore line).

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⚠️ NOTE: %item_lore% can produce many lines if the item has a long lore.

You can limit this by adjusting the Lore-Line-Limit setting.

Lines: - "&6&lFLEXING" - "%item_name%"

The format of each enchantment line when %item_enchants% is used.

Enchant-Format: "&6%enchantment_name% &f%enchantment_level%"

Spawn-Location:

Distance from the player's eye location where the hologram spawns.

Distance: 1.5

Offset added to the base spawn location.

Useful for raising or shifting the hologram position.

Offset: X: 0 Y: 1.5 Z: 0

Offset specifically for the item inside the hologram.

Should usually match the above offset for best alignment.

Item-Offset: X: 0 Y: -0.17 Z: 0

How the item is displayed (e.g. NONE, FIXED, GUI).

See: https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/entity/ItemDisplay.ItemDisplayTransform.html

Display-Transform: GUI

Scale of displayed items (if the item is NOT a block).

Item-Display-Scale: 0.75

Scale of displayed items (if the item IS a block).

Block-Display-Scale: 0.5

How the hologram text faces the viewer.

See: https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/entity/Display.Billboard.html

Billboard-Type: "VERTICAL"

Background color and opacity of the hologram text.

All values are 0–255. Use Opacity: 0 for no background.

Background-Color: Opacity: 0 Red: 0 Green: 0 Blue: 0

Brightness of the text lines in the hologram.

0–15, where 15 is the brightest.

Brightness: Block: 15 Sky: 15

If true, text lines will render with a shadow for better readability and visual depth.

Text-Shadow: true

Particle effect played when the animation starts.

Spawn-Particle:

Type of particle.

See: https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/Particle.html

Particle: "GLOW" Count: 20 Offset: X: 0.1 Y: 0.2 Z: 0.1 Speed: 0.01

Sound played when the animation starts.

Spawn-Sound:

See: https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/Sound.html

Sound: "ENTITY_EVOKER_CAST_SPELL" Volume: 1.2 Pitch: 1.5

Controls the scale animation (in and out).

Scale-Settings:

Initial scale of the item.

Starting-Scale: 0.01

Amount the item scales up/down per tick.

Scale-Increment: 0.06

Speed of item rotation (in degrees per tick).

Rotate-Speed: 7

Duration of the animation, in ticks (20 ticks = 1 second).

Animation-Duration: 80

Particle effect played when the animation ends.

Disappear-Particle: Particle: "FIREWORK" Count: 15 Offset: X: 0.2 Y: 0.2 Z: 0.2 Speed: 0.05

Sound played when the animation ends.

Disappear-Sound: Sound: "BLOCK_AMETHYST_BLOCK_BREAK" Volume: 0.8 Pitch: 1.7

Ambient particles shown during the animation.

Ambient-Particle:

How often (in ticks) to spawn particles.

Frequency: 10 Particle: "ENCHANT" Count: 3 Offset: X: 0.1 Y: 0.1 Z: 0.1 Speed: 0

Ambient sound played during the animation.

Ambient-Sound:

How often (in ticks) to play this sound.

Frequency: 20 Sound: "BLOCK_BEACON_AMBIENT" Volume: 0.3 Pitch: 1.2

All plugin messages can be customized below.

Supports PlaceholderAPI placeholders and Minecraft hex colors (e.g. #A020F0).

Messages:

Shown when a player lacks the required permission.

No-Permission: "#FF5555You do not have permission to use this."

Shown when the player runs /itemflex without holding an item.

Must-Hold-Item: "#FFA500You must be holding an item to flex it!"

Shown when the player runs /itemflex while already flexing an item.

Flex-Active: "#FFA500You already have an item flex active!"

Shown when the player tries to flex while on cooldown.

Placeholders:

%time% — Displays the remaining cooldown duration.

Cooldown-Active: "#FFD700You're still on cooldown! Please wait #FF5555%time%#FFD700 before flexing again."

Shown when a non-player (e.g. console) tries to execute a player-only command.

Player-Only: "#FF4444This command can only be used by players."

Shown when the plugin configuration is successfully reloaded.

Config-Reloaded: "#55FF55✔ Configuration reloaded successfully." ```

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Plugin Permissions

| Node | Description | |------|-------------| | `itemflex.use` | Allows using `/itemflex` | | `itemflex.cooldownbypass` | Skips the usage cooldown | | `itemflex.reload` | Allows reloading the configuration |

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Dependencies

- Requires: Spigot/Paper 1.19.4+ - Optional: PlaceholderAPI for custom placeholders

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Suggestions? Issues?

Reach out to me on Discord @BitByLogic or open an issue on GitHub for support and suggestions!

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