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Many times when you're doing your own map, you want colors on unit names, in triggers, loading screen etc etc..
So, here I will explain how you get all colors EXACTLY as you want them!
(Credits to WarLuvr3393, sorry for stealing your art of tutorial display, but I've changed it now
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-- Remember to reply a comment about what you think, and +rep if you think it's of any use for you! --
1. Text displays - An example
In the campaign, and also in custom games, there will be a big text on the left of your screen telling you something.
You might have noticed that in custom games, the whole text will be one or many colors, or just plain white.
In the campaigns though, will they have a 'title' before the text, like this one below:
As you can see, the title is light blue, and the text plain white. Myself, I think this looks much better.
Now, let's get an example. Let's say that we want the following text;
We want the title in orange, and the rest in white.
We have now opened the trigger, and ready to type:
|cffff8c00Notice:|r You may now build Banshees.
Okay, so let's walk through this text.
In the beginning, theres the start tag '|c'. This is the start of the 'color' tag. You WILL need this one.
The first 'ff' Means 'Full'. "Full of what?" you say? In this part of the tag, they decide the transparency of the part, here, the text.
The next 'ff' means 'Full' too. "Full of what now?" You say? Roll down to part two. This part decides how much of the red color you want. 'ff' is also full red.
The third part, 8c, is the green color. also here, 'ff' is full green.
The last part, 00 is the blue color.
Now comes the text that will be orange, then |r. What does that part mean you say? 'Return'.
Now you know, |c is color, ff, tansparency, ff red, 8c green, 00 blue, and |r return.
2. Colors and their letters - A walkthrough
You have already learned that 'F' is Full. But what about the others?
The color codes are written 0-F, zero to f. And the letters between them are listed below:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Now you might understand it, dont you? I will go through them anyway.
0 is zero. in RRGGBB, and its 000000, it'll turn black. black and ugly. Doing it with full color, FFFFFF it'll turn white.
If you make them the same all the way from black to white, you'll have diffirent gray colors. example; 050505 is very very dark gray, while FEFEFE is very very light.
FF0000 is red, 00FF00 green, and 0000FF blue. And as another example, if you mix red with blue, what will you get? purple of course! FF00FF.
You can mix as much as you want. If you have problems finding the yellow color, it's FFFF00, red mixed with green.
Try mixing some of these in paint or photoshop, and you will learn it perfectly.
3. Objects - Hotkeys at it's best
When editing or making new units, you want to have hotkeys. Fine, Text - Hotkey "A". Now what?
In most maps you will be told the hotkeys for each unit. How? In their names when training them!
But how is this possible? Well, open up the Text - Tooltip - Basic and take a look.
Doing a colored hotkey can be done in diffirent ways, you can make one of the letters in the name be colored, or you make one next to the name.
How?
You have already seen it. As in the first part of this tutorial, you saw that you could make display texts in diffirent colors, so why shouldn't it work with unit names?
Does it work with more than just the tooltip? Yes, actually it does! Try doing it with unit names, and everything else writeable.
Example, example.. Well, here you are: Train |cffffcc00B|ranshee
For special items, such as unique and artifacts, these colours and names are to be placed first in the Text - Description, with a "next" ( |n ) tag in its end. This next tag jumps to next row, for those who didn't know. Yep, another example for you: |cff8b00ffUnique|r|nA Kul Tiras navy commander's shield.
4. Useful colors - already made, and good for usin'
As diffirent titles most often got diffirent colors, I'll now give examples on what's good using.
Some special item colours, to save some time finding. Do keep in mind that 'Good' and 'Superior' are not Warcraft 3 original. I took them from World of Warcraft. However, they could be handy in an ORPG.
To save you time, I will also give you the player colors:
With this, I hope you best of luck, and paint your maps nicely with beautiful colors!
So, here I will explain how you get all colors EXACTLY as you want them!
(Credits to WarLuvr3393, sorry for stealing your art of tutorial display, but I've changed it now
)-- Remember to reply a comment about what you think, and +rep if you think it's of any use for you!
--1. Text displays - An example
In the campaign, and also in custom games, there will be a big text on the left of your screen telling you something.
You might have noticed that in custom games, the whole text will be one or many colors, or just plain white.
In the campaigns though, will they have a 'title' before the text, like this one below:
As you can see, the title is light blue, and the text plain white. Myself, I think this looks much better.
Now, let's get an example. Let's say that we want the following text;
We want the title in orange, and the rest in white.
We have now opened the trigger, and ready to type:
|cffff8c00Notice:|r You may now build Banshees.
Okay, so let's walk through this text.
In the beginning, theres the start tag '|c'. This is the start of the 'color' tag. You WILL need this one.
The first 'ff' Means 'Full'. "Full of what?" you say? In this part of the tag, they decide the transparency of the part, here, the text.
The next 'ff' means 'Full' too. "Full of what now?" You say? Roll down to part two. This part decides how much of the red color you want. 'ff' is also full red.
The third part, 8c, is the green color. also here, 'ff' is full green.
The last part, 00 is the blue color.
Now comes the text that will be orange, then |r. What does that part mean you say? 'Return'.
Now you know, |c is color, ff, tansparency, ff red, 8c green, 00 blue, and |r return.
2. Colors and their letters - A walkthrough
You have already learned that 'F' is Full. But what about the others?
The color codes are written 0-F, zero to f. And the letters between them are listed below:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Now you might understand it, dont you? I will go through them anyway.
0 is zero. in RRGGBB, and its 000000, it'll turn black. black and ugly. Doing it with full color, FFFFFF it'll turn white.
If you make them the same all the way from black to white, you'll have diffirent gray colors. example; 050505 is very very dark gray, while FEFEFE is very very light.
FF0000 is red, 00FF00 green, and 0000FF blue. And as another example, if you mix red with blue, what will you get? purple of course! FF00FF.
You can mix as much as you want. If you have problems finding the yellow color, it's FFFF00, red mixed with green.
Try mixing some of these in paint or photoshop, and you will learn it perfectly.
3. Objects - Hotkeys at it's best
When editing or making new units, you want to have hotkeys. Fine, Text - Hotkey "A". Now what?
In most maps you will be told the hotkeys for each unit. How? In their names when training them!
But how is this possible? Well, open up the Text - Tooltip - Basic and take a look.
Doing a colored hotkey can be done in diffirent ways, you can make one of the letters in the name be colored, or you make one next to the name.
How?
You have already seen it. As in the first part of this tutorial, you saw that you could make display texts in diffirent colors, so why shouldn't it work with unit names?
Does it work with more than just the tooltip? Yes, actually it does! Try doing it with unit names, and everything else writeable.
Example, example.. Well, here you are: Train |cffffcc00B|ranshee
For special items, such as unique and artifacts, these colours and names are to be placed first in the Text - Description, with a "next" ( |n ) tag in its end. This next tag jumps to next row, for those who didn't know. Yep, another example for you: |cff8b00ffUnique|r|nA Kul Tiras navy commander's shield.
4. Useful colors - already made, and good for usin'
As diffirent titles most often got diffirent colors, I'll now give examples on what's good using.
Some special item colours, to save some time finding. Do keep in mind that 'Good' and 'Superior' are not Warcraft 3 original. I took them from World of Warcraft. However, they could be handy in an ORPG.
To save you time, I will also give you the player colors:
With this, I hope you best of luck, and paint your maps nicely with beautiful colors!
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