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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Mr. Dave on February 20, 2005, 01:56:25 am

Title: Illegible GuildChat
Post by: Mr. Dave on February 20, 2005, 01:56:25 am

I thought about posting this in Wish List (http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/board.php?boardid=11) - I really did. But since IMHO it\'s a minor change with major potential benefit, I decided to post it here.

In My Not So Humble Opinion, the blue-on-black text of the GuildChat and GroupChat channels (and to a lesser extent the purple-on-black of the Shout channel) is almost perfectly unreadable on my monitor. I\'d really really really like to see these messages in a different, brighter colour. I\'d really really really like to see these messages:rolleyes:

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Post by: Moogie on February 20, 2005, 02:06:15 am

Edit your configchat.xml file if these messages are unreadable to you.

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Post by: Mr. Dave on February 20, 2005, 03:50:42 am

I found the file, and I see what appear to be colour-control tags, but I can\'t spot anything that\'s obviously a colour-control value. Can you give me a hint? TIA.

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Post by: Moogie on February 20, 2005, 03:52:48 am

Edit: Ah wait... I\'m wrong. Let me search a bit more, the colours don\'t seem to be in this file :)


Edits again: Ah, found it! In /data/options/chat_def.xml

Sorry \'bout that. :)

Title: Found It!
Post by: Mr. Dave on February 20, 2005, 04:02:54 am

There it is! Thanks; I\'ll play with it to find something readable.

PS: So this was really a documentation bug?:P (Urk- I\'d better shut up or I might get volunteered...)

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Post by: Pestilence on February 20, 2005, 01:37:31 pm

*signs Mr.Dave up on the volunteer sheet*

LOL but seriously I think the blue is pretty unreadable myself and heard that from others aswell so perhaps just a good idea to make the defualt an other color ;)

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Post by: Asenar Lunin on February 20, 2005, 03:16:33 pm

or simply go in game and modifie the chat option, you can give the color you want to each type of information (sysmsg, guild, tells, auction, etc...)

Title: Thanks All
Post by: Mr. Dave on February 22, 2005, 10:54:22 pm

Editing the XML file didn\'t seem to work, but changing the colours in the Options/Chat pane did. (Is that new? I have no idea why I didn\'t find it earlier!)

Now I just have to find colours that don\'t look like Disney vomit...

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Post by: Mordaan on February 22, 2005, 10:58:47 pm

I did the same thing the other day.  In the chat options I just changed the value for guild chat color from 0, 0, 255 to 0, 255, 255 to see what would happen (trial and error) and it changed it from dark blue to light blue.  Good enough!   :]

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Post by: AshyRaccoon on February 23, 2005, 11:58:41 am

FYI, the colors are in the form or R G B, with 0 being darkest, 255 being brightest.  So 0, 255, 255 would be no red, lots of green and blue (so light blue, or cyan) :)