The codes won't really look meaningful; most of the time it will have boxes, accented characters, or symbols in them.Raistlyn said:
To get the name you want try pasting this in as your name:
Name=Raisÿÿÿtlyn
It's here! Hyrulian's UT2k4 Message Colorizer!
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To get the name you want try pasting this in as your name:
Name=Raisÿÿÿtlyn
UPDATE!!
Thanks to Intruder, the Windows version of the UT2k4 Message Colorizer now has a preview window, much like the one seen in G-Lite's Linux version. Download the new version now!
Download links and a new screen shot can be found at the top of this thread.
Thanks to Intruder, the Windows version of the UT2k4 Message Colorizer now has a preview window, much like the one seen in G-Lite's Linux version. Download the new version now!
Download links and a new screen shot can be found at the top of this thread.
The advantage of colour
The first thing it does is make individual names more memorable. There is a limited lexicon of player names out there, that you see only briefly, but when there is colour and text in a player name, it makes them memorable. In a competition or passworded server, most people will know each other, so colours aren't needed; but conversely, the players are experienced enough not to be distracted by a player's name.
Looking at the screenshots on this page, I realised that seleroxed fragged me innumerable times a few days ago. I probably wouldn't have twigged that it was the same guy posting here if I hadn't seen his coloured tag.
This will lead to consolidation of the UT community spirit; and the game becoming more personalised and individualised.
So I have a red and green tag. It's garish, so what. As better examples of the use of colours come out, everybody will refine their schemes. The main thing it does is that it makes the Pubs a nicer and brighter place. It reminds me of Iain Banks' books, where robots change the colour of their aura to reflect their mood. The point here is that colour personalises the mechanistic.
The first thing it does is make individual names more memorable. There is a limited lexicon of player names out there, that you see only briefly, but when there is colour and text in a player name, it makes them memorable. In a competition or passworded server, most people will know each other, so colours aren't needed; but conversely, the players are experienced enough not to be distracted by a player's name.
Looking at the screenshots on this page, I realised that seleroxed fragged me innumerable times a few days ago. I probably wouldn't have twigged that it was the same guy posting here if I hadn't seen his coloured tag.
This will lead to consolidation of the UT community spirit; and the game becoming more personalised and individualised.
So I have a red and green tag. It's garish, so what. As better examples of the use of colours come out, everybody will refine their schemes. The main thing it does is that it makes the Pubs a nicer and brighter place. It reminds me of Iain Banks' books, where robots change the colour of their aura to reflect their mood. The point here is that colour personalises the mechanistic.
Hyrulian Hero said:
Hah! I still beat you to it!
I actually forgot to add a yellow preview option myself, because that's the color you see on the scoreboard instead of teamcolors. It still works okay though, can't be bothered.
Looking very nice, there.
I personally like colors, but not the way they are implemented. Looks to me like it was meant as an internal thing, really.
I'd definitly like to see it revised and implemented in a better way with a limited color palette and options to turn it off.
Preferebly show it in the scoreboard and deathmessage ('You've been killed by ...') only by the default and a GUI option to turn it off completely.
There's always room for some more fine-tuning in .ini files such as showing it up and chats and stuff.
Maybe an option to allow it in the actual chat messages as well would be nice, but it should be disabled by default because it'll be heavily abused, I'm sure. Clans without voice comm might find it handy to communicate with in teamsay messages though, and may want to temporarily enable it for clan matches.
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coloured names are nice
they were XMP and worked so y dont they get em to work in UT2004?
i played games like CoD and quake 3 no one complains about the colours there they got the name change script which is pretty cool to use at the end of the game when the scoreboard comes up
so why get rid of the good stuff
and seeing as XMP is coming to UT2K4 WE NEED COLOURED NAMES!!!!
yeah i know it doesn't work as well as XMP's but with a bit of work it can work
maybe make put the name in brackets which are the same colour as the team (like XMP) this should prevent it messing up death messages.
and all this you dont know what team they are on is poop just look at the skin or the scoreboard
they were XMP and worked so y dont they get em to work in UT2004?
i played games like CoD and quake 3 no one complains about the colours there they got the name change script which is pretty cool to use at the end of the game when the scoreboard comes up
so why get rid of the good stuff
and seeing as XMP is coming to UT2K4 WE NEED COLOURED NAMES!!!!
yeah i know it doesn't work as well as XMP's but with a bit of work it can work
maybe make put the name in brackets which are the same colour as the team (like XMP) this should prevent it messing up death messages.
and all this you dont know what team they are on is poop just look at the skin or the scoreboard
Sir_Brizz said:
I'm sorry I have to say this but... d00d your an idiot....
in XMP you can't see the name of someone not on your team unless you have your crossahirs on them and cetainly not at a distance. Most of us who still play xmp use colors to mark clan affiliations and to keep from being copied....
I heard a rumour that the colors did cause master server problems, so that may be a problem. But other than that the colors area nice feature and it helps cut down on people spoofing your handle and acting like asshats....
To quote myself:
Don't force us to ban or put people on RO and close this thread.
Try to find argument without offending people.
Swedix said:
Don't force us to ban or put people on RO and close this thread.
Try to find argument without offending people.
You are so good at reading aren't you...WolfmanK said:
The reason they were annoying is because everyone used text messages to communicate with their teammates, and their names were flasahing rainbows like neon signs...so half the time you were just like "STFU I can't think with your name popping up on the screen every ten seconds". It IS annoying to me, but I guess that expressing your own opinion is evil to you, in which case I say STFU your opinion doesn't matter either.
Sir_Brizz said:You are so good at reading aren't you...
The reason they were annoying is because everyone used text messages to communicate with their teammates, and their names were flasahing rainbows like neon signs...so half the time you were just like "STFU I can't think with your name popping up on the screen every ten seconds". It IS annoying to me, but I guess that expressing your own opinion is evil to you, in which case I say STFU your opinion doesn't matter either.
LOL fair enough.... I havn't noticed that as a problem in current games, but to each there own. Its still the best way of preventing other players from spoofing your name and ruining your rep.
Sir_Brizz said:I want to thank you for your calm reply. I really do. It would have been easy to turn this into a battle but you stepped back. That's awesome!
Hehehe your welcome... clearly I missed some of your previous posts where u explained your view better.
I still havn't read this whole thread its just too damn long...
I'm not unreasonable. I just happen to think your wrong.
<--swedix