Snippet PlayerColor2String, HexS2Dec

[Doomhammer]

With string messages, it can be useful to have the color of a player as the appropriate string color code. That's what the following code does:

function GetPlayerColorString takes player p returns string
local playercolor col=GetPlayerColor(p)
    if col == PLAYER_COLOR_RED then
        return("ffff0000")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_BLUE then
        return("ff0000ff")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_CYAN then
        return("ff00ffc0")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_PURPLE then
        return("ff800080")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_YELLOW then
        return("ffffff00")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_ORANGE then
        return("ffff8000")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_GREEN then
        return("ff00ff00")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_PINK then
        return("ffff00ff")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_LIGHT_GRAY then
        return("ffc0c0c0")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE then
        return("ff80c0ff")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_AQUA then
        return("ff004040")
    elseif col == PLAYER_COLOR_BROWN then
        return("ff404000")
    endif
    return("00000000")
endfunction

example (taken from a multiboard) :

    call MultiboardSetItemValueBJ(mboard , 1 , i, "|c" + GetPlayerColorString(p) + GetPlayerName(p) + "|r")

This will write the Player's name in his color in the specified cell of a multiboard

Let's go one step further: Natives like SetTextTagColor and SetUnitVertexColor require the color codes as seperate integers. The following snippet makes use of the fact that the basic player colors consist of merely 5 different values.

function HexS2Dec takes string s returns integer
    if s == "ff" then
        return(255)
    elseif s == "00" then
        return(0)
    elseif s == "40" then
        return(64)
    elseif s == "80" then
        return(128) 
    elseif s == "c0" then
        return(192)
    endif
        return(0)
endfunction

example (tainting a text tag):

set s = GetPlayerColorString(p) 
call SetTextTagColor(t, HexS2Dec(SubString(s,2,4)), HexS2Dec(SubString(s,4,6)), HexS2Dec(SubString(s,6,8)), 255)

 

[Tinki3]

Useful snippets.

Approved.

 

[elmstfreddie]

Though the Hex could be more useful. Maybe something that converts any hex value to decimal, and vice versa?

 

[Andrewgosu]

I suggest just to store the player colour strings into arrays and use "player number of (... player) for the index.

It's not that messy.

 

[Pzyber]

PlayerColor2String was excatly what I needed, many tnx.

 

[Senzak]

Where did you get your color values for the players?