Font,Color Help

07-02-2004, 05:03 PM

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Ok Heres what i have problems doing the problem is in loading screens and when triggers or messages appear in game or on the loading screen some of them are colored and i would like to know how to do that becuz i'm currently working on a Tower Defense and i want a colored loading screen and i want triggers to be colored like Level (Level) in 30 seconds like when it displays that i want it to be colored...---I Know--- alls i no how this works is that it has to do with a code but im practically retarted when it comes to typing it pasting it inserting it whatever. :8 THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! :8

07-02-2004, 05:13 PM	#2
Panto	If you look at the tooltip for most units, abilities, or items, there's a little bit of "code" there which sets the color of the hotkey for that ability. I belive that code is for yellow. It matches the same color-setting system that HTML uses.

07-02-2004, 05:21 PM	#3
Darkpimp1108	:( Dude doesnt that only give me yellow!?

07-02-2004, 08:10 PM	#4
elite_master	check in tools in dl sectiona and they have about 3 tools for color 1 for 1 color and others for two or the colors in one word like this \|c00ff8000H\|r\|c00e87500y\|r\|c00d16a00b\|r\|c00ba5f00r\|r\|c00a35400i\|r\|c008c4900d\|r\|c00753e008\|r\|c005e330 02\|r\|c004728008\|r\|c00301d009\|r\|c001912001\|r for instand Heres link to Wc3 Colorizer

07-02-2004, 11:40 PM

ForgottenLight

For the...
You shouldn't need a program or a tutorial, a simple expliation should be enough for anyone! I understood color codes when I was 3, they can't be that hard. Basicly in warcraft, you put the code "|c" and then the color code, and then your text and then "|r", color codes are in hex, but isn't hard to understand. it is composed of four, two digit numbers. the first doesn't matter in Warcraft Text, because it is transparency, and text can't do that in warcraft. The second, third, and fourth are Hex values for the primary colors Red, Green, and Blue., in that order. You mix the colors to the one you want. for instance, to make blue text, you would use

"|cff0000ffText|r"

The values run from 00 to FF, going 01 02 .... 09, 0A, 0B, 0C, 0D, 0E, 0F, 10, 11, 12, 13... 19, 1A, 1B ... 1F, 20, 21 ... ... ... 99, 9A ... 9F, A0, A1, A2, ... ... ... EE, EF, F0, F1, F2, ... ... FF. See? It's like counting, just with weird numbers. The higher a number, the more of that primary color will be in the Complete color.

For example, lets say you wanted purple, you'd use:
"|cffff00ffText|r"

Or yellow:
"|cffffff00Text|r"

Or "warcraft yellow":
"|cffffffccText|r"

Or White:
"|cffffffffText|r"

Or Black:
"|cff000000Text|r"

Or Aqua Sea-Blue:
"|cff66bbffText|r"

Or Fall Forest Green.
"|cff38dd11Text|r"

You get the idea.

07-02-2004, 11:54 PM	#6
Emekun	Also, if you don't like downloading and using tools (for some obscure reason), try this Tutorial , it shows you how to color text manually and some of the most frequently used color codes. Edit: Or just listen to the clever guy who posted above me.

07-02-2004, 11:57 PM

Deathperception

I think you'd rather use an application rather then copy down all those codes the WC text follows HTML hex codes accept the closing tags aren't <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> like that that would be white in html scripting.

For warcraft you would type this |c00ffffffYour Text|r okay so what does all this mean there is an open and close parameter just like in html.

So lets say I wanted the text color to change for the world Hiya I would do this |c00ffffffHiya|r did you see that?

The blue text is the opening and the red is the closing and the Dark Orange is ordinary html hex code. However you can use a program where you type the text in the app you want and it does all this for you including putting these tags at the beginning and end. To get this app go to the downloads section and click the tools button the program is called colormanager after you see how it does things you will be doing them manually in no time :D .

I'd rather not type about hex codes I'm sure there are plenty of explanations on the forums already.

07-03-2004, 12:11 AM

ForgottenLight

You don't NEED a program. the color codes aren't rocket science! You shouldn't need to copy them from some where beacuse you should know how to use them, sheesh, it is as simple as counting! o_O IF YOU ARE INTELIGENT ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW TO TURN ON A COMPUTER, YOU DON'T NEED A PROGRAM, OR TO COPY FROM A DATABASE OF COLOR CODES!! IF I COULD UNDERSTAND THEM AND USE THEM WHEN I WAS THREE YEARS OLD, YOU DON'T NEED A PROGRAM TO GENRATE THEM FOR YOU!

Edit- Sorry for the yelling.

07-03-2004, 12:26 AM

Deathperception

Lol I love when people get infuriated ^_^ we just gotta accept that some people don't WANT to look for hex tables and want someone to solve the problem for them. Lets put this into perspective shall we instead OF TYPING IN CAPS LIKE A CHILD WHO WANTS TO BE HEARD.

First I see you complaining but not helping the problem at all. The purpose of this thread is to help and not waste space complaining go to the Off Topic Thread for that. If its so simple and your such a genious why didn't you explain the hex codes why didn't you explain? Ok I will :\ .

Hexadecimal, referred to simply as "hex," is the base 16 number system. Base 16 is an alphanumeric system, consisting of both numbers and letters in combinations that translate as color. Hexadecimal uses the numbers 0 through 9 and the letters A through F. All hexadecimal values should contain a total of six characters. The first pair in the series of six will equal the amount of red in the color; the second pair will equal the amount of green; and the third pair, blue.

The hexadecimal value of white looks like this: #FFFFFF and black color looks like this: #000000.

The hex alphabet if you will consists of these numbers and letters

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

Each block of numbers would represent these colors FFFFFF.
These first two numbers represent how bright the red is the next two the green and finally the last block the blue with FF being the brightest and 00 being the darkest.

07-03-2004, 12:30 AM	#10
ForgottenLight	Firstly, I did explain, the hex codes, IN DETAIL, unlike you. And second, I specifily said that people SHOULDN'T look in hex tables, because they shouldn't need them. I'm no genious, I get a B- aveage in school. Yet, I understood how to generate hex codes when I was three years old. Meaning, that nobody should find them confusing...

07-03-2004, 12:37 AM

#11

Deathperception

I'd rather not start an arguement over something so stupid :> lol but in all honesty if you are not trying to make a primary color you want a non-standard one like pink are you really going to experiment with it in html and load it up on a web browser ???

Because everyone doesn't have Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks they cant see their color transformation in real time which is the only efficent way to generate unique colors other then some flash apps I've seen but I don't want to get into that. An everyone doesn't have a color wheel embedded in their brain :D . I think I've made a point that sometimes its better to use an app like that one or Photoshop when color mixing specific colors.

Sorry about that your not the first one who criticized me trying to make it easier for people on a similar topic may I add and I just lost it

:D . Also I didn't notice your previous post sorry about that too I thought you just happened to post right after I did :( .

No hard feelings I usually don't blow up like that :D .

07-03-2004, 12:44 AM	#12
Panto	Panto has a color wheel in his brain... Incidentally, I believe that the alpha (transparency) value can be used to make transparent text on leader- or multi-boards. I haven't tested this myself. It definitely can't be used to make text in the object editor transparent.

07-03-2004, 12:51 AM	#13
Deathperception	Hmmm Very Cool I gotta try that out.

07-03-2004, 02:11 AM

#14

ForgottenLight

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deathperception

but in all honesty if you are not trying to make a primary color you want a non-standard one like pink are you really going to experiment with it in html and load it up on a web browser ???

Pink is just red and white, so to make it, you would add white to red like "ffFF9999" My whole point has been that you don't need a color wheel or a table or a program or to memorize anything. Name a color and I'll figure out the hex value for it by general logic, not my having memorized a color wheel, or by trial and error in a program.
You way is like saying you can't speak a language intill you've memorized every possible sentence that language can form. That's just stupid. The same thing aplies to hex codes, if you understand how they work, you don't need a color wheel or table, memorized or otherwise.

07-03-2004, 03:25 AM	#15
Darkpimp1108	Ok all of you that helped i want to thank you soo much even though some stuff was really hard to comprehend but i got it and i want to close this discussion for 2 reasons and they are becuz this is setting friends from enemies lol and becuz i already no because of the Warcraft 3 Colorizer which was the most helpful shit here but all of you had a good imput and .... [edited for language]