PrismaticAPI 🌈

Advanced color toolkit for Bukkit / Spigot / Paper plugins.
Gradients, rainbow effects, single RGB formats, MiniMessage-safe parsing, and legacy fallback in one place.

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✨ Why PrismaticAPI?

PrismaticAPI started as a fork of IridiumColorAPI, then evolved with a broader parser and a more complete formatting pipeline.

It helps you:

• Paint text with smooth gradients and rainbow effects.
• Parse multiple custom RGB syntaxes in a single pass.
• Keep compatibility with modern RGB and legacy 16-color clients.
• Convert output to plain strings or Adventure TextComponent.
• Strip any formatting quickly when you need clean text.

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🧠 Processing Pipeline

PrismaticAPI.colorize(...) processes text in this exact order:

1. MiniMessage parsing (only if MiniMessage is available at runtime)
2. Multi-color formats (gradient and rainbow)
3. Single-color RGB formats
4. Legacy ampersand translation (&a, &l, etc.)

This order keeps complex tags stable and avoids conflicts between format types.

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🎨 Supported Color Formats

All custom Prismatic formats are case-insensitive and use 6-digit hex (RRGGBB).

Gradient 🟣🔵🟢

Format	Description
<g:RRGGBB>text</g:RRGGBB>	Short gradient tag
<gradient:RRGGBB>text</gradient:RRGGBB>	Long gradient tag
<#RRGGBB>text</#RRGGBB>	Hash-style gradient tag
<#RRGGBB:#RRGGBB[:#RRGGBB...]>text</g>	Multi-stop gradient with short close tag
<#RRGGBB:#RRGGBB[:#RRGGBB...]>text</gradient>	Multi-stop gradient with long close tag

Gradient tags can include internal color stops:

• <g:ff0000>Hello <g:00ff00>World</g:0000ff>
• <gradient:ff0000>Hello <gradient:00ff00>World</gradient:0000ff>
• <#ff0000>Hello <#00ff00>World</#0000ff>

Rainbow 🌈

Format	Description
<rainbow:NUMBER>text</rainbow>	Full rainbow tag
<r:NUMBER>text</r>	Short rainbow tag

NUMBER accepts 1 to 3 digits and is parsed as the saturation value.

Single Color 🎯

Format	Example
{#RRGGBB}	{#ff8800}Hello
%#RRGGBB%	%#ff8800%Hello
[#RRGGBB]	[#ff8800]Hello
<#RRGGBB>	<#ff8800>Hello
&xRRGGBB	&xff8800Hello
#RRGGBB	#ff8800Hello
&#RRGGBB	&#ff8800Hello

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🚀 Quick Usage

1. Colorize a message for a player

Player player = Bukkit.getPlayer("a player reference");
String raw = "<g:ff0000>Hello <gradient:00ff00>world</gradient:0000ff> &l!";
String colored = PrismaticAPI.colorize(player, raw);
player.sendMessage(colored);

2. Get an Adventure component

TextComponent component = PrismaticAPI.colorizeAsComponent("<rainbow:1>PrismaticAPI</rainbow>");

3. Strip formatting

String raw = "&#00ff99Clean &lthis <rainbow:1>text</rainbow>";
String plain = PrismaticAPI.stripAll(raw);

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🧰 API Highlights

Method	Purpose
colorize(Player, String)	Full pipeline with client legacy detection
colorize(String)	Full pipeline without player context
colorizeAsComponent(...)	Returns Adventure TextComponent
applyGradient(...)	Programmatic gradient application
applyRainbow(...)	Programmatic rainbow application
stripBukkit(...)	Removes &/§ legacy color markers
stripSpecial(...)	Removes formatting markers (k-o, r, etc.)
stripRGB(...)	Removes custom Prismatic RGB formats
stripAll(...)	Removes all known formatting

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📦 Installation

Replace ${version} with your target release.

Maven

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>croabeast-repo</id>
        <url>https://croabeast.github.io/repo/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>me.croabeast</groupId>
        <artifactId>PrismaticAPI</artifactId>
        <version>${version}</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Gradle

repositories {
    maven {
        url "https://croabeast.github.io/repo/"
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation "me.croabeast:PrismaticAPI:${version}"
}

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✅ Compatibility Notes

• Java target: 1.8
• API base: Spigot 1.16.5 (compile dependency)
• Legacy fallback: enabled for old clients (and ViaVersion-aware when available)
• MiniMessage integration: optional at runtime

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🙏 Credits

• Original inspiration: IridiumColorAPI
• Maintained and expanded by CroaBeast

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.