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Thread: Tuesday Tips – November 2nd: Adding color to your SWG Bio
Each week, Q-3PO started a thread for you to share game tips with fellow players. Tuesday Tips will continue on. Have a little known command you use all the time, a cool place to visit, a trick (non-exploit) to getting more out of the game? Share it here. To get things started:
Adding color to your SWG Bio
Here is a great tip not only for adding color to your SWG biography, but also enable your ability to have "cut-and-paste" in-game for use with your notepad and other sorts of things.
To add color to your SWG bio, the first thing you have to do is enable your cut-n-paste commands. The second thing you have to do is add the HTML color tag to your bio outside of the game and then paste the whole thing in your Character Sheet. Here's the step-by-step:
1. Enable your Cut-N-Paste Commands
- Press CTRL-O to bring up your Options window
- Press the "Controls" button in the Option window
- Press the "Keymap" button on the Controls
- Click the Tab that says "Chat"
- Under the chat tab, there are three commands that you will want to bind:
Chat Edit Copy
Chat Edit Cut
Chat Edit Paste
· One at a time:
o Select the item in the list by clicking on it with your mouse
o Click the "Rebind" button
o Press the keys you want to use to assign to the button. A good selection to use for these commands is:
§ Chat Edit Copy: CTRL+SHIFT+C
§ Chat Edit Cut: CTRL+SHIFT+X
§ Chat Edit Paste: CTRL+SHIFT+V
o Click "Ok"
o Click "Apply"
Now you are done with the first part. What you have done is enable your cut-n-paste commands. Next is actually changing your bio.
2. Changing the color in your SWG Bio:
· Open up your Character Sheet Bio by Pressing "CTRL-P"
· Next, click on the "Character" Tab.
· Select your bio text with the mouse and press CTRL+SHIFT+C (This puts the text on your windows clipboard).
· Once you have done that, press ALT-TAB and minimize your game.
· Load up a text editing program such as Notepad, Wordpad or Text Pad.
· To change the colors of the text, use the following command:
\#FF1234\This is my bio text....
Reference any HTML color list to select from a wide variety of colors.
· Once your have chosen a color and completed your SWG bio in the text editor, you need to send it to your clipboard. Press CTRL-A (to select all the text) and then CTRL-C to copy the text to the clipboard.
· Press ALT-Tab and open up your game window.
· Put the mouse in your character sheet bio window (make sure you see the cursor)
· Click CTRL+SHIFT+V (or whatever you assigned as your Chat Edit Paste command
Then click "Done" to save the data. Type CTRL+1 to select your character and type /examine to view your own bio in all of the colors you wanted.
VOILA! A bio with color.
Check out last week's tips 
- The CTRL+1 and /ex combo only works on yourself once per load; you have to shuttle someplace else to see it again once you've done it once. Any chance of getting that fixed?
- Any chance you guys will ever move the bio to the top of the /ex character window, or suppress badge display? Or at least make it optional, perhaps on a badge-by-badge basis? A character who's been playing long enough (been to all the POI's or who hologrinded through every prof trying to unlock) creates a pretty long list of badge clutter. I'd like to see a greater emphasis placed on the bio.
Message Edited by Darth_Sushi on 11-02-2004 02:12 PM
Message Edited by Geral_Corasjo on 11-02-2004 05:04 PM
If you read this, could you direct your or one of your very helpful devs attention to my post in the pilots forum? I'm completely gated and no idea how to get around it.
Good tip btw
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Message Edited by LeBob on 11-02-2004 04:22 PM
- \#FF0000\This is my bio and now it will be in red
The "\FF0000\" will not be visible but all text following the HEX code will show up as red.
Barb-Wire wrote:hot tip to get around the travel bug in the starship terminal:open the regular travel terminal then close it with the ESC key. now you can use the starship travel terminal. this lets you bypass the bug that defaults your travel location to tatooine.
Wha?
~V
Jai-Qon wrote:
Barb-Wire wrote:
hot tip to get around the travel bug in the starship terminal:
open the regular travel terminal then close it with the ESC key. now you can use the starship travel terminal. this lets you bypass the bug that defaults your travel location to tatooine.
Wha?
He is refering to the lil bug that if you use the ship terminal to travel it defaults to the tatooine map and thus only locations you can reach from the tatooine space lanes
now while this can be useful from say dantooine or dathomir if you want to go to Lok since you dont have to make the jumps inbetween, it can be a real anoyance if you are on corellia and want to go to dath or dant,
so hit the normal ticket purchasing terminal first, it seems to update your client as to what planet you are on, that way when you go to the travel screen off the spaceship terminal it will show you as on the planet you are on not on tatooine