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