Changing your chat transmission colors

[BladeRunner]

I just wanted to share something I learned about last night. In all the chat channels you can change the color of the message you're sending by adding hex tags before the text. For example the following: "/s \#FF0000 COME TO CC ASAP" would give a message to your squad that was colored red. As far as I know it works for any hex color. And you can do more than one, like "/b \#00FFFF New \#0000FF Conglomerate \#000000 Rules"


The devs might not have intended players to be able to do this, but it worked as of last night..

[matt]

Nice find... i figured this out a while ago by accidently hitting / and not typing a message.. and the following message shows in hex.. but its still good to post it

[LesserShade]

sweet find, thanks blade

[BigTony]

yea theres a bug where you will see the hex tag from a message sent pretty sweet tho, i dont think they're goin to let us have it

[BladeRunner]

I guess it goes without mentioning (but I will anyway) that this works in macros too. For instance I made a little macro that does a squad message that is generic but in a little gradient from blue to black. Kinda spiffy.

One downside is any time you use it at least one person will /tell you asking how to do it That's not bad though I don't mind at all.

[Hamma]

I need to figure out how to make squad macro's, havent messed with that at all

[mistled]

cool find

[Dravz]

So... how do you do macros?

[Indecisive]

yeah let a n00b in on it lol

[BladeRunner]

Here's an example

/macro HELP /s \#FF0000 HELP I'M HIT!!

that command would place a little text bubble icon on your cursor, which you drag to your quickbar. It's a squad message, in red, saying "HELP I'M HIT!!" (wow)

[Hamma]

Nice

Wonder if the color thing is a bug.

[LesserShade]

I dunno, but it is hella sweet that's for sure. Now I just wish that I could make all incoming chat from say my outfit channel one color, while my squad channel another.