Rank Effects

Animated shader effects for your rank tags!

1 min readUpdated Nov 12, 2026

How It Works

SamsRank installs a custom text shader into your resource pack. Each effect has its own (almost white) trigger colour; when a tag is drawn in that colour, the shader animates it. You never deal with colours yourself.. just put the effect name in the placeholder:

%samsrank_<effect>_<rank>%

For example %samsrank_starlight_admin% shows the admin tag with a diagonal shimmer.

Run /samsrank effects to preview every effect on the example rank, or use the effect preview in the in-game editor.

All Effects

Effect	What it does
`starlight`	Classic diagonal shimmer, top-left to bottom-right.
`moonbeam`	Reverse diagonal shimmer, bottom-right to top-left.
`rainfall`	Vertical shimmer, top to bottom.
`whisper`	Slow, smooth shimmer with a gentle wave.
`blaze`	Fast glitch with crack distortion.
`aurora`	Colour-cycling diagonal shimmer.
`gilded`	Warm gold shimmer with an edge rim and wave.
`breathe`	Subtle rhythmic fade pulse.
`tide`	Slow horizontal shimmer with a wave.
`neon`	Edge shimmer with a glow outline.
`ripple`	Waving motion with a vertical shimmer.
`drift`	Slow sliding with a diagonal shimmer.
`ember`	Micro-glitch with a reversed shimmer.
`pendulum`	Slow swaying, like a hanging sign.
`pulse`	Slow expand and contract.
`wander`	Characters rise one by one in a slow wave.
`phantom`	Slow fade with a whisper of edge glow.

Turning Effects Off

Prefer static tags, or want to save client GPU? One switch turns every effect off:

effects:
  enabled: false

Effect placeholders then show the plain tag (%samsrank_aurora_owner% looks like %samsrank_owner%), and the effect shaders are left out of the generated pack entirely. Run /samsrank reload and regenerate your platform pack after changing it.

Where Effects Show

Effects render wherever Minecraft draws text with the pack's font: chat, TAB, scoreboards, nametags, holograms and BetterHud elements (see BetterHud).

Bedrock players see the static tag - effects are a Java shader feature. See Bedrock (Geyser).