Adding Colored Text**

How Do U add colored text to quest, loading scns, etc.???

You use hex codes(I think).

Download this program and you should be able to make colored texts.

Intructions:
Run program
Type in a text
Press colour 1
Choose color
Click "Copy Text to clipboard"
Then paste it.

The colored text will appear in the game.

While that app works I feel this one works better and more efficiently. Try this one as well this is the one I use. Simply load it up and from the drop down box select for WC3 Worldeditor. What makes this app better is that you will have 3 color bars to adjust Red Green And Blue. This gives you total control over which color you wish to use and as you move the color bars the color of the text in the app changes so you know exactly what your doing :D

And I'll upload it when the upload server works again I'm getting a dead link when I try to upload :\ .

Lol. Who needs a program to add color? Just type in the code yourself. If a code doesn't come out to the right color modify it a bit until it comes out right.

Codes unit hexadecimal so 01 = 1, 0a = 11, FF= 255, etc. Ranges from 01 to FF (1 - 255) A = 11 B= 12, etc.


Codes are added in like this |caarrggbbTEXT|r

aa = alpha value (don't exactly know what it is. Just put FF there
rr = red value
gg = green value
bb = blue value

so |cffffffff |r = white and |cff000000 |r = black

|cffff0000moo|r = moo
|cff00ff00boo|r = boo
|cff0000ffblue text|r = blue text
I see |cff808080grey|r here. = I see grey here.

The range is actually 00 to FF.

Alpha value means transparency, where FF means 0%.

xxyyzz

xx stands for how much redness, yy stands for how much greeness, zz stands for how much blueness.

FF means full
00 means nothing
0F means half

80 means half

Well most people don't code in HTML I spend alot of time in it and from using it often I use the hex codes regularly. However for people who have no background in HTML or similar languages have no clue what a hex code is as simple as the system is it is easier to use an app rather then spending time experimenting and learning the HEX definitions.

Besides whats easier watching the text color change in the app instantaniously or uploading it to Warcraft and loading up your map just to see what the color looks like? No brainer :> . Sure you can try out the hex codes in a browser but again whats faster? :D why waste time making an HTML file saving it opening your browser and viewing it. When this app shows you instantly. Then there is a browser issue with web safe colors how some colors won't display the same on older or different browsers when all that matters is how it displays on Warcraft and the app simulates that.

Well hex isn't really that hard especially if it just stands for color percentages. Just some number conversions. It kind of annoying to flood your computer up with all these mini editor add-ons and then opening them up everytime.

For something as simple as colored text you don't need a program. All you need is a keyboard with all the letters and numbers and a hand with fingers. Most of the time people use the basic colors or colors that blizzard used which you can copy the code. And I don't even know html and how to do webpages. I just know how to convert numbers. ^_^

Lol well yeah your right I only use these apps on rare occasions when I have to mix an odd color.

if you want to know the exact hex color you can use photshop (i dont know other pro imagin programs)
when you click on the forward or the backward color a coloring dialog window will open where you can choose your color,and in the bottom of the window you can find the html representation of the color.

Yes photoshop is a wonderful tool but sadly not eveyrone has it and those 56kers out there can't even download the trial version :( .

ty guys...

here are some hex listscolor chart color chart 1

hope i helped a little bit

If your too lazy to search through the entire color listing or need a more specific way, heres an alternate route.

1) open paint.

2) Double click a color on the bottom and choose Define Custom Colors >>

3) Choose a color.

4) You will see the values for red, green, and blue displayed.

5) Open up calculator and insert a value.

6) Go to scientific mode and press Hexidecmal to get the hex code, and then just type the three hex codes for red, green, and blue in to the trigger thing.

Looks complicated only because I split it up into several steps. I might write a program on how to do this because I really dont have anything to do.



Argh, want to give people rep on this thread but hit stupid 24 hr limit.