Glowing Plugin

✨ Glowing

A glow periodically that makes players glow periodically, providing a visual effect and optional gameplay consequences. Perfect for events, minigames, or PvP servers wanting dynamic glowing effects.

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⚙️ Features

- 🌟 Periodically applies Glowing potion effect to all online players - ⏱ Configurable duration and interval of the glow effect - ⚰️ Optionally penalizes players who log out during a glow (drops inventory and kills the player) - 💬 Sends messages to players when glow starts and ends - 🔧 Automatically handles glow removal on logout

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📁 Installation

1. Download the plugin `.jar` file 2. Place it inside your server’s `plugins/` folder 3. Start or reload your server — the glow cycle begins automatically

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⚙️ Configuration (`config.yml`)

```yaml

==== Glowing ====

glowing: true glow-interval-minutes: 20 glow-duration-seconds: 60 glow-die-on-logout: true ```

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💡 How it Works

- Messaging: Every interval, all online players receive a glowing effect for a defined duration - Messaging: Players who log out while glowing can optionally drop their inventory and die - Messaging: Automatically removes the effect when the duration ends or the player logs out - Messaging: Players are notified when their glow starts and ends

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🧩 Developer Information

Main classes: - `de.scholle.glowing.Glowing` – main plugin class - `de.scholle.glowing.GlowManager` – handles glowing cycles and player state - `de.scholle.glowing.GlowLogoutListener` – handles player logout events - `de.scholle.glowing.utils.Msg` – utility for sending formatted messages

Key behavior: - Uses `BukkitRunnable` for timing and effect management - Uses `PotionEffectType.GLOWING` to apply the visual effect - Tracks active glows per player using a `HashMap<UUID, BukkitRunnable>`

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🧰 Compatibility

- ✅ Works on Java 17+, Java 17+, and Java 17+ - 🧱 Compatible with Java 17+ - ⚙️ Requires Java 17+

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🧑‍💻 Author

Package: Scholle Package: `de.scholle.glowing`

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. You may use, modify, and distribute it in compliance with the terms of that license. For more information, see: Apache License 2.0