| title | Gloss |
|---|---|
| description | Gloss display suite: holograms, menus, panels, container previews, scoreboards, tablist, chat |
| published | true |
| date | 2026-08-26 |
| tags | gloss |
| editor | markdown |
| dateCreated | 2026-08-18 00:00:00 UTC |
Gloss draws holograms, holographic menus, and world-anchored panels. It also draws look-at container previews, scoreboards, tablist text, emoji chat, chat bubbles, damage and heal indicators, dropped-item labels and display-backed drop models, and a randomized server-list MOTD. Its in-world renders can carry viewer-targeted particle lines, frames, boxes, text fills and named-letter effects. Scoreboards, both tablist surfaces, bubble styles, indicators and real drops share one condition language for per-player, per-world and event-driven presentation.
| Commands | /gloss (gl, glo, gg), /hologram (holo, h), /board (sb, bd) |
| Servers | Paper, Purpur, Leaf, Folia, Canvas, Spigot — Minecraft 26.1.2 – 26.2 |
| Java | 25 |
| Folia | Supported (folia-supported: true in paper-plugin.yml) |
| Configuration | plugins/Gloss/gloss.toml, commented and hot-reloading |
| Content | Hot-reloading JSON documents under plugins/Gloss/, with conditional variants and shipped defaults |
| Web editor | Twelve focused document kinds, including the interactive damage-indicator renderer, or the complete runtime workspace through /gloss web — Web Editor & Sync |
| Integrations | PlaceholderAPI, Vault, WorldGuard, ten item plugins, and live metrics from the other Volmit plugins — all optional |
HoloUI is part of Gloss. Menus, panels (former HoloUI "boards"), container previews, custom item icons, and the web editor live in this plugin. The
/holouicommand, theholoui.*permissions, andplugins/holoui/are gone. Gloss imports an existingplugins/holoui/folder on first start. Commands & Permissions lists the command and permission map. {.is-info}
Gloss ships two descriptors. Paper-family servers read
paper-plugin.yml, load atSTARTUP, and receive the three commands through Paper's lifecycle command registrar. Spigot readsplugin.yml, loads atPOSTWORLD, and receives the commands declared there. {.is-info}
- Getting Started
- Configuration
- Data Files & Hot Reload {.links-list}
- Holograms
- Scoreboards & Groups
- Tablist & Server List MOTD {.links-list}
- Emoji, Text & Animations
- Chat Bubbles, Indicators & Drops {.links-list}
- Hologram Menus
- Components & Hitboxes
- Icons
- Actions
- Expressions & Placeholders
- Custom Items & Item Providers
- Container Previews
- Panels {.links-list}
- Commands & Permissions
- Web Editor & Sync
- Localization
- Runtime Architecture
- Particle Layers {.links-list}
- API: Getting Started
- API: Menus
- API: Placeholders
- API: Previews {.links-list}