[SPIGOT-7272] hidePlayer() with tablist controls Created: 23/Feb/23  Updated: 21/Mar/25

Status: Open
Project: Spigot
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: New Feature Priority: Minor
Reporter: Photon Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Unresolved Votes: 1
Labels: None

Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by SPIGOT-7317 Player#hideEntity/Player#hidePlayer a... Resolved
is duplicated by SPIGOT-8019 A way to add a parameter to #Player.h... Closed
Version: This server is running CraftBukkit version 3661-Spigot-19641c7-8434e36 (MC: 1.19.3) (Implementing API version 1.19.3-R0.1-SNAPSHOT)
Guidelines Read: Yes

 Description   

Currently the hidePlayer API provides no options regarding the tablist. The current behaviour seems to hide the tablist entry, but there are instances where I want to hide the player only in game, not in the tablist, e.g. for lobbies. In other instances, hiding the tablist is desired, e.g. for vanish plugins. Therefore I suggest adding a way of controlling if a hidden player should also have their tablist hidden.

Ideas for that:

  • Adding a hidePlayer(plugin, player, boolean) method to specify the tablist status in the last argument and have the current hidePlayer(plugin, player) method call that with "true"
  • Adding a hidePlayer(plugin, player, enum hidemethod) method similar to the first idea to allow for additional hidemethods in the future, e.g. only equipment hiding.
  • Have new methods for tablist manipulation in general. This would also reduce the dependency on library plugins.

 Comments   
Comment by Giga Zelensky [ 03/Jan/25 ]

Yeah you guys should do this. Pretty helpful for many different reasons

Comment by Photon [ 19/Apr/24 ]

I think a viable alternative to a full Tablist API would be to add some sendTablistPlayerEntry() method or similar.
Right now I use hidePlayer() to hide the player and then I send a spoofed player entry packet with packetevents.
If the latter part would be part of the API similar to sendEquipmentChange(), one could replicate the tablist behavior just with the API.

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