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General Zone => Helpdesk => Topic started by: X2X on July 17, 2012, 18:49

Title: Colored nickname
Post by: X2X on July 17, 2012, 18:49
These codes can be used to colour your UT2004 server name or player name.
To change your name in UT2004 to use any of these colours, open your user.ini file up, and look for the Name= line. Copy the 4 characters next to the colour you like from the ones above, and then paste it in front of the characters you want to colour. Alternatively you can do this in game, using the "setname" command. Just remember, the text after the color code will be colored.

http://miasma.org/colors

I checked my user file, I could not find Name= line  :'( 8) :'(
I downloaded UT2004 from GOG.com, does anyone know how I can color my nickname?

Have a great weekend,

X2X  :P
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Veica on July 17, 2012, 19:30
Type your name somewhere, and put the color codes where you want them to be. The name I use is below:

@@@S0NAR@@ą

In game, this should look like: S0NAR: gg

Copy your name with the color codes, and open UT2004. Hit ` to open the console, and type:

setname [paste your name here]

Hit enter and it should change your name. Example, I would have to open the console and enter:

setname @@@S0NAR@@ą
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: N3Cr0 on July 17, 2012, 21:12
This only works if color codes are set up on the server. Don't try it on the Killing Floor server: you will mess up your nickname :P
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Veica on July 17, 2012, 21:28
THey used to be available on the KFMod server :)
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: N3Cr0 on July 17, 2012, 21:48
Last time I connected with colored nick, it changed it to "Player" (without colors)
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Veica on July 17, 2012, 21:51
Last time I tried it, it set my name to " ".

A Siren pushed   over the edge.
  's ears popped.
  filled the Patriarch's body with shrapnel.
  : gg
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: [MiA]Zaid on July 18, 2012, 14:17
Colored nickname has been disabled in Killing Floor Mod ?
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: X2X on July 20, 2012, 20:26
I am kind of a moron and I just don't get it... :(
Isn't there somekind of video that shows me how to color my nickname?
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: [MiA]Raj on July 20, 2012, 21:21
Copy one of those 4 character color strings on that page.

Start UT2004. Open Console -> type "setname " -> press ctrl+V to paste the color string you copied earlier -> type your name -> press Enter to execute the setname command...

Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: N3Cr0 on July 20, 2012, 21:21
To define a nickname color you have to write some ASCII codes manually. To do that under Windows you have to hold n[Alt] and type in a decimal value. Under Linux it is [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Alt] u12 (replace the "12" with the hexadecimal value).

The syntax of the color code is [esc][RRR][GGG][BBB].
[esc] means Escape - the decimal value is "27", but unfortunately you cannot define these low values under Windows (Idk why). for the RGB colors use a value between 0 and 255 [dec] (or 0-FF [hex]).
[linkimg]http://www.asciitable.com/index/asciifull.gif[/linkimg]
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: X2X on July 20, 2012, 21:35
Does this great advice come with a particle accelerator that I have to buy on Ebay so I can hook it up on my PC? WTF... I really dont get it my friends!  :D
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: [MiA]Raj on July 21, 2012, 00:21
I really don't see anything complex in my steps.

Maybe you don't know how to copy paste - use ctrl+c and ctrl+v.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: X2X on July 22, 2012, 21:17
Quote from: [MiA]Raj on July 21, 2012, 00:21
I really don't see anything complex in my steps.

Maybe you don't know how to copy paste - use ctrl+c and ctrl+v.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste


Love ya Raj, in a normal way.  :D
I will try your copie and past advice.
Seems complex.   :(

But does anyone know how I can color my nickname?  :-[
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Romulus on May 10, 2020, 07:20
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Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: [MiA]Dave on May 10, 2020, 13:14
A lot of things are possible but not worth the time to execute.
It appears you've got a color fixation so I've got a suggestion. Do your own skin.
In-game, I mean, not physically. It might mean you have to scour the internet to learn how but you found this 8 year-old post on changing nick colors.......
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Romulus on May 10, 2020, 13:59
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Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: [MiA]Dave on May 10, 2020, 15:21
You totally missed the point. If you can scour the forums and find this thread, you could scour the inner-webby for skin ideas.
This thread already had posts on how to do something. Did you spend any time trying it yourself or did you immediately ask Piglet to do it for you?
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Veica on May 10, 2020, 16:15
I don't see why colors would be necessary.

The thread already details how to do it.

If you try it and it doesn't work, it isn't enabled on the server anymore; while I can't speak for how the server is run and what is enabled, I can say I'm doubtful that it would be reinstated just because you want it to be.
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Miauz55555 on May 11, 2020, 15:02
Serve yourselve.
https://fair-gamers.com/index.php/forum/general-ut2004/246-ut2004-colored-name
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Piglet on May 11, 2020, 15:51
Welcome!

I have a vague feeling that there is (or was) some code on the server to prevent coloured names, so whilst it may work elsewhere there's no guarantee that it will work here.

There's so much custom code on this server that remembering all of it is beyond me (even though I wrote/changed most of it over time).

I spent a while yesterday trying to remember an obscure class I wrote for something on the webadmin. I ended up scanning the entire codebase trying to find it.
Title: Re: Colored nickname
Post by: Miauz55555 on May 11, 2020, 21:21
Hello, Thank you.

Yes, I would not bother to search anything for some scoreboard-colours actually. =D