Changing hostname colors?

[captnroger]

Hi all,

How can I change the name of my server to show up in different colors when you display the list of servers within the game? I noticed some servers have their names listed in red, blue, etc... is there a tag to use or sometrhing?

[rudedog]

From Scorpio of TMT=

This is great news.

You can have you text ouput in different colours !

print3d allows you to specifiy any colour you like using (r,g,b).

But you can also specify colours in normal print commands.

^1 = red
^2 = green
^3 = yellow
^4 = dark blue
^5 = light blue (cyan)
^6 = magenta
^7 = white

for instance:

print ("^1This is red text");
This is red text

or

iprintln ("^3I'm yellow, wooo hooo");
I'm yellow, wooo hooo

or

iprintlnbold ("Multi colour: ^1Hello ^2World");
Multi colour: Hello World

yes that's right you can have mixed colours on same line !

way to go IW

[sphinx175]

Just an old Q3 engine trick. But no black. Could do black in ET and RtCW but not CoD :cry:

[captnroger]

So I'm confused - how can I use this with my sv_hostname parm on my command line?

[sphinx175]

Here's an Example

sv_hostname "^1Welcome ^2to ^3my ^4CoD ^5server"

Make sense?

[rudedog]

should be like this

sv_hostname "^2codadmin.com"

This would look like codadmin.com or close to that color green

[captnroger]

Got it, thanks! :)

[Hammer]

It's always a good idea to finish any text with ^7 forcing color back to white. The game take care of adjusting for this, but it doesn't hurt. This is particularly important if you're in a clan and folks start changing their names a lot. You may want to instruct them to always leave text as white.

[rudedog]

The only problem we have seen, thus removing any colors. Is if someone sorts the list by alphabetical order, your placed at the bottom.

[Hammer]

It would be nice if the game stripped any color artifacts out during console output, e.g. status.