
This is useful for servers that still support earlier versions like 1.7 or 1.8 with ViaVersion or a similar plugin. Players running 1.8.3 or before will be able to see your animation. Players running higher versions will see the default MOTD defined in the configuration file.

AnimatedMOTD requires PingAPI to work properly. To install AnimatedMOTD simply download it and drag the jar file into your plugin as well as PingAPI's jar. PingAPI will not affect your server at all. It is simply a library that helps developers.

Enabled: true Default MOTD: "MOTD" Default PlayerCount: "Players: 5/50" Ticks: 20 MOTD: Enabled: true Ticks: 20 Animation: - "MOTD 1" - "MOTD 2" - "MOTD 3" - "MOTD 4" - "MOTD 5" PlayerCount: Enabled: true Animation: - "Players: 1/50" - "Players: 2/50" - "Players: 3/50" - "Players: 4/50" - "Players: 5/50" Icon: Enabled: true Animation: - "/icons/1.png" - "/icons/2.png" - "/icons/3.png" - "/icons/4.png" - "/icons/5.png"

Currently there are two variables. %ONLINE% which represents the amount of online players and %MAX% which represents the maximum amount of players
The source code is available here