Changelog

v2.0.0

Added custom .texteffect files loaded from plugins/TextEffect/custom-effects/.
Added the Basic Studio with 34 colour, motion, brightness and special layers.
Added live WebGL previews, effect validation, import and export.
Added browser autosaving, named projects, undo and redo.
Added Random effect generation for creating a fresh valid layer stack.
Added support for up to 100 custom effects, with up to 16 Basic layers in each effect.

Added the Advanced Studio with 67 typed nodes for inputs, maths, noise, vectors, colour, texture sampling and controlled outputs.
Added safe plugin-side graph compilation without raw shader code.
Added fragment outputs for colour, brightness and opacity.
Added vertex outputs for horizontal, vertical and two-dimensional character movement.
Added direct socket connections, cable selection, multi-node selection, copy and paste.
Added reusable node groups that expand into normal safe nodes during export.
Added Advanced browser projects, autosaving, graph validation and live WebGL previews.
Added support for combining Basic Studio layers with an Advanced graph in the same effect.

Added custom effects to standalone and merge-ready resource-pack generation.
Added stable custom-effect runtime slots and permission support.
Added graph cycle, socket type, shader stage, output and performance-limit validation.
Added generated Studio catalogues so the website and plugin use the same supported layers, nodes and limits.
Added safety limits for graph size, texture sampling, random nodes, movement, brightness and compiled shader length.

Fixed plain text being visible underneath animated effects.
Fixed the duplicate effect name and alias on the ink effect.
Fixed see-through text rendering for entity names and holograms.
Confirmed custom effects, standalone packs and merge-ready packs across Spigot, Paper and Purpur from Minecraft 1.21 to 1.21.11.

Added /texteffect zip merge for ItemsAdder, Oraxen, Nexo and custom resource-pack workflows.
Creates an unprotected assets only export in plugins/TextEffect/generated/merge-ready/.
Includes TextEffect-Merge-Pack.zip, an extracted assets folder and merge instructions.
Keeps pack.mcmeta out of the export so the final-pack provider can build and distribute the combined resource pack.

Added effect-customisation.yml for changing built-in effect colours, animation speed and movement strength.
Added dynamic HSV controls for Rainbow and Confetti.
Added validation for customisation values and effect specific colour settings.
Custom visual settings are written into newly generated standalone and merge-ready packs.

Added player-selectable saved chat effect profiles through /texteffect chat select <effect>.
Added /texteffect chat select off to return to plain chat.
Added chat-settings.yml for enabling profiles, choosing a default effect and limiting selectable effects.
Added texteffect.chat.select and effect-level permission checks for profile selection.
Saved selections persist in chat-profiles.yml.

Existing servers keep player chat profiles disabled until they are explicitly enabled.
Standard /texteffect zip generation remains available for standalone TextEffect resource packs.