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To those who want to control sys message colors, you can do it completely on your end, without having the group members change their settings. Here is how:

do it by placing a color code right into your sys command. i.e.:

/sys \#ff0000\ melee fighters fall back!

this will change your sys message color on EVERYONE's screen who sees it to ff0000 (i think this is red). I don't have the chart of what the hex color codes are here at work, so you'll have to find it yourself. If you want to make this very simple, you can do alias commands for colors you want to use quickly:

/alias /rr /sys\#ff0000\

this will make "/rr" your code for a red sys message. Then you just type /rr and the text you want to send to your group. You could alter the color code (the #ff0000) for any color you want. So you could use /rr for red message, /gg for green message, /bb for blue message, etc.

-Sharkun Litestep

Bria/Rori/ORT Valley/FOO

Wow, this is an excellent tip. I knew this was possible for house names, but I didn't even think to use it for /sys.

Thanks!

Sweet! can't wait to try this! The allias idea is especially great, I suppose those could then be thrown into macros as well. Very cool.

Thanks!

-Psquire

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AlexHood wrote:

/alias /rr /sys\#ff0000\

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I couldn't get this or /rr to work, but I could get colors to work though, and its pretty neat.

gordon: I think that's because the actual syntax to set up an alias is /alias rr /sys\#ff0000\ -- the difference being you put no slash before the "rr" here. Since you did, try out //rr as your command and that will probably work, or simply re-enter it like this and try /rr again.

Ive wanted to try this but I could never get \ to work ingame

I can type / but \ doesnt seem to work/doesnt appear when hit...maybe it's something to do with keuboard settings as im in uk and have English keyboard setup not american

Thanks for the tip, works great, here is the exact syntax to make thealias "_" means space btw.

/alias_rr_/sys_\#ff0000\

then to use it just type /rr message instead of /sys message

here's a list of hex color codes I got off a quick google search:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

Works for me in all the groups I've tried it and people have responded well to it.

/bumping so Vemnox will see this and remove the call for color in /sysgroup from the reply to the DEVs.

--Ze'ev

When manually typing my /sysgroup commands into the command line, I was able to get the /sys channel \#ffff00\ color flags to work correctly.

When trying to create a macro-hotkey, I ran into trouble because the "\ "key required two keystrokes in order to appear and the macro wouldn't perform correctly upon completion. The fact that it required two keystrokes makes me think the first stroke was an "escape character" and the second keystroke that created the " \ "became a meaningless symbol instead of the color flag...

I got around this by creating an alias... for example:

/alias sysTarget /sys \ff0000\ Aquire this target ; /sys \ffff00\ ==> %TT <==

I then created a hotkey-macro which called out the alias: " /sysTarget "and it worked like a charm. Hope this helps!

You can also use your color /sys aliases in the macro. For example:

/alias rr /sysgroup \#ff0000\

Then make a macro (Attack)

/rr Attack my target

Only problem I've noted with this... When I use the macro, the /sys message works just how I want it to, but in my own chat window I just see "..." in the appropriate color.