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Thread: Tuesday Tips August 16th Don't Miss Critical System Messages
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Thanks to Gera for a fantastic tip this week!
Tired of same color messages to every text, every system message? You can't realize you have been knocked down in PvP lag? Missing who called your name in spatial spam? Tired of looking for message you wanted on long scrolls of your chat tabs?
Here is how to customize your message colors on your screen.
Right click on one of your chat-tab names and press "Add" and insert "System Messages" from left selection menu to right and name tab as "System".
Open Options (CTRL+O) and click "Chat Color" from the left menu.
Type "knocked down" on the entry field at bottom of option screen and pick the color red and then press "Add Sentence Colorization".
You will see following messages as red color on your screen:
You have been knocked down.
You can't
Another example, you are a Bounty-Hunter and often missing your droid location while waiting for location. Again type Your target has been located and press Green color and "Add Sentence Colorization" and you will see these messages in green. Or you want to know when your seeker droid lost track of your target lost track word in red with Sentence customization will help a lot on your long travels to your mark.
How about some more customization?
Type your name to field and pick orange color again "Add Sentence Colorization", you will see all messages with your name in it with orange color in spatial.
Type [GROUP] to field and click on yellow, this time "Add Word colorization" and you will see as:
[GROUP] NameA looted ItemA
"You have entered" sentence with "Add Word Customization" will let you see as:
You have entered Kor Vella
Examples can be expanded with your preferences on how much experience you gained and many possibilities of your profession, what you looted and critical system messages you want to follow.
Enjoy!
gera
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Ben_C wrote:
lol! first in as well omi!
Yeah..I already have my first post thingy a long time ago...I'm not 12...so I don't get kicks and giggles from such things anymore
You cannot knockdown recovery while knocked down
That would make a great tip! And possibly be useful as well
I knew you could change colors, but I had no idea you could do individual words. I think I'll put "You can't knockdown recovery while knocked down" in bright orange.
Question is, does this reset when the chat tabs reset? That would be alot of work to do everytime you switch characters.
This is the Corbantis version
Thunderheart wrote:
Don't Miss Critical System Messages
Type "rolled back" on the entry field at bottom of option screen and pick the color red and then press "Add Sentence Colorization".
You will see following messages as red color on your screen:
You have been rolled back.
You can't while rolled back.
Another example, you are a Bounty-Hunter and often missing your droid location while waiting for location. Again type Your target has beenrolled backand press Green color and "Add Sentence Colorization" and you will see these messages in green. Or you want to know when your seeker droid lost track of your target rolled backword in red with Sentence customization will help a lot on your long travels to your mark.
How about some more customization?
Type your name to field and pick orange color again "Add Sentence Colorization", you will see all messages with your name in it with orange color in spatial.
Type [GROUP] to field and click on yellow, this time "Add Word colorization" and you will see as:
[GROUP] NameA looted ItemA
"You have entered" sentence with "Add Word Customization" will let you see as:
You haverolled backKor Vella
MurfThrelklya wrote:
I knew you could change colors, but I had no idea you could do individual words. I think I'll put "You can't knockdown recovery while knocked down" in bright orange.
Question is, does this reset when the chat tabs reset? That would be alot of work to do everytime you switch characters.
To answer your question , no, it does not reset with chat tabs since I'm having same chattab reset problem, I kept colors
Message Edited by gera on 08-16-2005 01:06 PM