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Thread: Colored Text
how exactly do you make text colored on crafted items and building names?
anyone able to help me with this question please.
Backslash colorCode backslash text
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/
'\' doesn't work in game for me. I'm guessing it's because it's a UK keyboard and only US keyboard maps work properly in SWG ('\' on UK keyboard is to the left of the 'Z' key. Where is it on US?)
No one can type a backslash. You have to copy and paste it from Windoze. Bind the paste key in game to do that. Thats in the key map section of the options. Chat edit paste or something like that. Sorry I'm at work and I don't have the game in front of me.
Nostromoo wrote:
No one can type a backslash. You have to copy and paste it from Windoze. Bind the paste key in game to do that. Thats in the key map section of the options. Chat edit paste or something like that. Sorry I'm at work and I don't have the game in front of me.
You don't have to cut-and-paste, though it make make things easier.
If you want to type it in, your best bet is to type the backslash last. For example, if you want to say "do not go there", with the word "not" in red, type it in first as:
do #ff0000not#ffffff go there
and add the backslashes last, to make
do \#ff0000not\#ffffff go there
Ok, that works for signs and emails...
How do you shout or speak in Color?
Nostromoo wrote:No one can type a backslash.
I can type a backslash. And, for sure, I'm not a jedi
Okay. I cannot type a backslash. I was told by someone else that no one could. Guess I'm another victim of the urban myth Thanks. And sorry for the confusion then.
Keto_Jax wrote:
Ok, that works for signs and emails...
How do you shout or speak in Color?
It's something like \say '\#FFFFFF\Colour is cool
Someting like that anyway. But remember, this doesn't always work well as not everyone will be running the same colour scheme as you. If you manually force thecolour it may become invisible to some other players.
Thank you.
Does the ' need to be there? If so, that is all I was missing.
Some can, some can't. Has to do with the keyboard and localization I think.
As to coloring names of items, the above descriptions tell all. I just wanted to mention that you can also color EMAIL messages. The difference is that in the email body, you won't see the code.
If you start typing "\#FFFF00\" at any point in an email, when you hit the second slash, all text that follows will be in the color specified.
Also, the six digits represent two digits each for Red, Green, and Blue. The scale is from 00 (darkest) to FF (lightest), from 00-99 and then into AA-FF.
I have another silly question...
How did you color your signature there?
Darniaq wrote:
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Also, the six digits represent two digits each for Red, Green, and Blue. The scale is from 00 (darkest) to FF (lightest), from 00-99 and then into AA-FF.
For completeness the RGB colour components are specified in hex butthe values are clamped to 00, 33, 66, 99, CC and FF only. This is because the colours for text use "safe" non dithering colours nottrue 24 bit colours. So although you can speicfy any colour in the range 00 to FF you may not get exactly what you asked for as it will clamp to the nearest safe colour.
So 6699CC is valid but 7F99CC is not.