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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Topic started by: unseen on October 16, 2008, 11:36:11 AM

Title: changing text color in game
Post by: unseen on October 16, 2008, 11:36:11 AM: i know to type menue setup_funname in the console to setup a colored name... but can you change the color of the txt you type in game?

like in some of the quake games [^1-9 ]would change the color of text.... is there anything like that for DPPB2???

please help, and thankyou.
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: XtremeBain on October 16, 2008, 03:13:16 PM: You can use [Ctrl+K] combo like in mIRC to get the color control character, then you can use any character (uppercase/lowercase/digit/symbol) to select a color. There's 255 different colors to choose from, and they're not really in any sort of sequential pattern.
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: h2lvik on August 23, 2010, 07:52:10 AM: were can i get it to work???
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: SkaDooSh on August 23, 2010, 07:06:21 PM: Type it into the console: `
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: Haywire on August 27, 2010, 12:32:41 AM: How do you pick a color after control k? I have trouble finding out the codes.
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: idias on August 27, 2010, 12:36:22 AM: Try putting in numbers, letters or do like shift+a, shift+h and so on... explore a bit.
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: joonas on August 27, 2010, 10:18:29 AM: Quote from: XtremeBain on October 16, 2008, 03:13:16 PM
they're not really in any sort of sequential pattern.

a-z
A-Z
0-9

That's only 62 colors though.
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: Kyuuchi on August 27, 2010, 10:21:58 AM: Theres !"£$%^&*()-_=+[{]};:@'~#<,>.?/ as well
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: Haywire on August 27, 2010, 10:47:14 PM: I think that's a guide that should be added onto the forums.
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: XtremeBain on August 28, 2010, 11:40:56 AM: There used to be a web page that let you pick from all the colours and special text symbols. It's down but I think the source code may be around.

You can probably use ALT+Keypad (i.e. ALT+222 =▐) combos to access the other 160+ ascii characters.
Title: Re: changing text color in game
Post by: Bono on September 03, 2010, 02:40:12 PM: Also you can download PCDPmod.

Official thread: http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=20851.msg196729#msg196729 (http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=20851.msg196729#msg196729)
Official trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6JKt34H37w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6JKt34H37w) (Trailer for older version 1.00PL, but you can download EN version 1.1 from official thread.
Project Homepage: http://www.PCDP.bee.pl (http://www.PCDP.bee.pl)

In PCDPmod you have BIND manager with colours creator etc.