How to make chat colourful in game?

[ProzacR]

How to make chat colourful in game?

[inpersona64]

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.

[ZeroKnight]

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

[inpersona64]

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.

[unixfreak]

Use these escape codes for your own text:

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

^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:

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

/say "^f9This text is cyan coloured"

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

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

bind "T"  [ saycommand "^f9"]

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

[qreeves]

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

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

^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.

[ClassyRain]

You can also put hex codes in square brackets:

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

^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?

[TheLastProject]

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

[inpersona64]

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)

[Dratz-_C]

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.]

[ClassyRain]

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.

[qreeves]

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.

[ZeroKnight]

Replace the existing voice.cfg with this:

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

// 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:

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

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

[bonifarz]

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:

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

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.

[Ulukai]

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

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

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!

[ZeroKnight]

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

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

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!