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How to make chat colourful in game?

I love that I kept getting this question ingame. Someone finally decided to take my advice and scour the forums. I change my text colour through the use of Extended Compass, courtesy of ZeroKnight. Search for that in the forums.

I don't update it anymore because nobody used it.

Oh ok. well I still use it. There's a command you type when you want to change the color of your text, but idk what it is because I've never had to use it.

Use these escape codes for your own text:

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^f0 = green
^f1 = blue
^f2 = yellow
^f3 = red
^f4 = grey
^f5 = pink
^f6 = orange
^f7 = white
^f8 = black
^f9 = cyan

I'm not sure about the blinking/flashing modes (or the scrolling pictures i've seen some people use). But you can use the ^f codes for colours like so:

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/say "^f9This text is cyan coloured"

You can make it easier in your autoexec.cfg to override the default T bind.

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bind "T"  [ saycommand "^f9"]

That would make your text cyan by default when pressing T.

RE also accepts letters in place of the Sauerbraten-oriented numbers:

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^f0 = green = ^fg
^f1 = blue = ^fb
^f2 = yellow = ^fy
^f3 = red = ^fr
^f4 = grey = ^fa
^f5 = pink = ^fm (this is actually supposed to be a "magenta" but the colour changed over time)
^f6 = orange  = ^fo
^f7 = white = ^fw
^f8 = black = ^fk
^f9 = cyan = ^fc


I find them easier to remember than the numbers.

You can also put hex codes in square brackets:

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^f[0xFF0000] = Pure red
^f[0xFFFFFF] = White
^f[0x000000] = Black

And et cetera...
Also, you can use the decimal numbers, but I find that the hex codes are easier. There's a useful tool at http://www.colorpicker.com that lets you pick a color, and it'll display the hex code.
Why do you want to know this?

ClassyRain {l Wrote}:Why do you want to know this?

Probably so he can have flashy text with letters of all colours of the rainbow to impress and annoy people :P

I don't mind color text but i took the liberty of disabling flashing text because thats definitely annoying. The one thing I like about color text is that people actually know its me when I enter a server (because I always use red text :P)

I wonder why the dialog no longer sounds when I talk with an icon and colored text.
Cheers [Edit: sorry if this was off-topic.]

Dratz-_C {l Wrote}:I wonder why the dialog no longer sounds when I talk with an icon and colored text.
Cheers

Maybe RE doesn't do a search for the text.

Dratz-_C {l Wrote}:I wonder why the dialog no longer sounds when I talk with an icon and colored text.
Cheers [Edit: sorry if this was off-topic.]

The sounds are triggered by matching the text people send, it does not filter out colour before doing these checks so they stop the sounds being emitted.

Replace the existing voice.cfg with this:

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// compass/voice actions

voices = 0
addvoice = [
    voices = (+ $voices 1)
    alias (format "voice%1str" $voices) $arg1
    alias (format "voice%1snd" $voices) (registersound $arg2 255 512 8 $arg3)
]

addvoice "argh"         "voice/argh"        2
addvoice "lucky shot"   "voice/luckyshot"   2
addvoice "nice shot"    "voice/niceshot"    2
addvoice "boom"         "voice/boom"        2
addvoice "damn"         "voice/damnit"      2
addvoice "haha"         "voice/haha"        2
addvoice "suck"         "voice/suckit"      2
addvoice "pzap"         "voice/pzap"        2
addvoice "yes~"         "voice/yes"         2
addvoice "sorry"        "voice/sorry"       2
addvoice "sry~"         "voice/sorry"       1 // reuse
addvoice "no problem"   "voice/noproblem"   2
addvoice "np~"          "voice/noproblem"   1 // reuse
addvoice "no~"          "voice/no"          2
addvoice "go go go"     "voice/gogogo"      2
addvoice "gogogo"       "voice/gogogo"      1 // reuse
addvoice "hang on"      "voice/hangon"      2
addvoice "thanks"       "voice/thanks"      2
addvoice "ty~"          "voice/thanks"      1 // reuse

on_text = [
    id = 0
    reg = (format "%1~" (filter $arg4)) // the ~ allows absolute matching, like in yes/no/etc
    loopwhile i $voices [= $id 0] [
        str = (getalias (format "voice%1str" (+ $i 1)))
        if (strncasecmp $str $reg (strlen $str)) [ id = (+ $i 1) ]
    ]
    result (getalias (format "voice%1snd" $id))
]


Quin gave me this hotfix a long while ago when I was working on Extended Compass. The key difference is this line:

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reg = (format "%1~" (filter $arg4)) // the ~ allows absolute matching, like in yes/no/etc

This topic has a clear title with keywords likely to be searched for, thus I'd like to add two things.

First, Zero's updated archives are useful in this context:
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=3592

Second, I like the idea to have your chat colour match your profile colour automatically:

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bind "RETURN" [saycommand "^f["(getcolour -1)"]"]

With this simple one liner in your config.cfg, your chat colour is always identical to the playermodel colour you can set conveniently in the main menu's profile section.

bonifarz {l Wrote}:I like the idea to have your chat colour match your profile colour automatically:

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bind "RETURN" [saycommand "^f["(getcolour -1)"]"]

With this simple one liner in your config.cfg, your chat colour is always identical to the playermodel colour you can set conveniently in the main menu's profile section.

Hey, that's a great idea! Would be a cool option in the profile menu to make the chat color match the player color!

Ulukai {l Wrote}:

bonifarz {l Wrote}:I like the idea to have your chat colour match your profile colour automatically:

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bind "RETURN" [saycommand "^f["(getcolour -1)"]"]

With this simple one liner in your config.cfg, your chat colour is always identical to the playermodel colour you can set conveniently in the main menu's profile section.

Hey, that's a great idea! Would be a cool option in the profile menu to make the chat color match the player color!

A cool idea indeed :)
I've added this functionality (and more) to my Color Chat GUI :D
Check it out here!