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title: "Display Generator — Spectra"
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# **Display Generator**

Build /summon commands for text, block and item display entities with full transformation control and a live 3D preview.

Display type

Version

Presets

1.21.5 turned the text field into real NBT; older versions expect the component as a quoted JSON string.

3D preview

The green cross is the summon position — the \~ \~ \~ you run the command at. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.

Transformation

Translation (blocks)

X

Y

Z

Scale

**Uniform**

X

Y

Z

Left rotation (degrees)

Yaw (Y)

Pitch (X)

Roll (Z)

Right rotation (degrees)

Yaw (Y)

Pitch (X)

Roll (Z)

Minecraft applies right rotation first, then scale, then left rotation, then translation. Rotations turn around the entity origin — for block displays that is the block's corner, not its center.

Command

Position

```
/summon minecraft:text_display ~ ~1 ~ {text:["",{text:"Welcome to ",color:"gray"},{text:"Spectra",color:"gold",bold:true}]}
```

Remove them again`/kill @e[type=minecraft:text_display,distance=..5]`

Text segments

Color codes

Formatting codes

Type \\n inside a segment for a line break.

Text options

Line width200

Alignment

Background

**Use chat background**

#000000

Opacity (alpha)64

Text opacity255

**Text shadow**

**Visible through blocks**

Display options

Billboard

How the entity turns toward the player: not at all, around the vertical or horizontal axis, or both.

**Brightness override**

View range

Shadow radius

Shadow strength

**Glowing outline**

**Custom glow color**

Interpolation & advanced

Interpolation duration

Start interpolation

Teleport duration

In game ticks (20 = 1 s). When you later /data merge a new transformation, the display glides into it over the interpolation duration — teleport duration smooths /tp movement the same way.

## **Features**

### **Quaternions worked out for you**

Rotations are set as yaw, pitch and roll in degrees and written out as the \[x, y, z, w] quaternions Minecraft expects — in the same YXZ order the game composes them, so the preview and the summoned entity match.

### **Only what differs from default**

Fields equal to vanilla defaults are left out, so the command stays short enough to read. The tool flags when it outgrows the 256-character chat limit and belongs in a command block.

### **Origin you can actually see**

The green cross in the 3D scene marks \~ \~ \~ — the block you run the command from. Translation, scale and both rotations are applied around it exactly as the game does.

## **Frequently asked questions**

## **Come say hi**

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