Installation

First time installing

1. Download the latest version here.
2. Place ParticleHats.jar into your plugins directory.
3. Stop & start your server. The default configuration files will be created.

Yaml Database

1. Yaml is the default database type when first installing. If you want to keep using it you're good to go.

MySQL Database

1. Stop your server if it is still running.
2. Navigate to plugins/ParticleHats/config.yml
3. Configure your database properties.
4. Create the database ParticleHats, or use your own database name. Just make sure the database property in config.yml matches the database you create.
5. Create a unique user with privilege to modify your ParticleHats database.
6. You can configure additional properties that will be included when connecting to the database, by default ?useSSL=false is included.
7. Start your server. Your database type will default to yaml if there are any issues connecting to the MySQL database.

Requirements

• Java 8

Compatibility

Versions

• 1.8.x
• 1.9.x
• 1.10.x
• 1.11.x
• 1.12.x
• 1.13.x
• 1.14.x
• 1.15.x

Not Working

• 1.7.10: While there are no errors when using this plugin on 1.7.10. Particles do not render.

MySQL

• 1.8 through 1.11 is compatible with MySQL community server 5.7.6, version 8.0 does not work
• 1.12 through 1.15+ is compatible with MySQL community server 5.7.6+