Pretty colours in the server menu screen

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Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:50 pm

  • I was wondering why this hadn't been implemented before, like in every Quake-ish shooter... :P
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:11 pm

Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:57 am

  • Actually, against.

    The reason is that the builtin function drawcolorcodedstring does not allow specifying a "master" color - which would be needed so the server name gets colored by ping too.

    I want server pings to be visible. That server admins can show colors there is just secondary.

    If drawcolorcodedstring DID have a color parameter, it would already apply the colors.
    1. Open Notepad
    2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
    3. Save
    4. Open the file in Notepad again

    You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:37 am

  • divVerent wrote:I want server pings to be visible. That server admins can show colors there is just secondary.
    Why is it that the ping colors are variations of orange anyway? It would be clearer to apply the usual colors (blue/green, yellow, red) to them imo.
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Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:20 am

  • The scale is green, yellow, red... and the shades in between are linearily chosen by ping.

    The orange colors are basically the yellows, toned down (servers that are empty or full are toned down).
    1. Open Notepad
    2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
    3. Save
    4. Open the file in Notepad again

    You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:19 pm

Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:40 pm

  • divVerent wrote:I want server pings to be visible. That server admins can show colors there is just secondary.


    The colors would be still visible, it just wouldn't be on the server name column. It would be applied to all the other columns.
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Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:01 pm

  • Which is really the minority... it really would be barely visible then.

    I think this suggestion is rejected temporarily, but will be applied once we can draw (by engine builtin) with BOTH color codes working AND coloring.
    1. Open Notepad
    2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
    3. Save
    4. Open the file in Notepad again

    You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:52 pm

  • Lol!One of you know something about the next nexuiz version?when it will be released?
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Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:57 pm

  • Everytime you ask when it's gonna be released it will be delayed for two weeks :P
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Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:43 pm

  • D'oh!!
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