In an attempt to prevent Paragon City from becoming a land of badly chosen colours (as if it isn't already 
) I thought I'd share this very neat Palette Master with you. It lets you choose a base colour and then produces a palette, with RGB and Hex values, that are complementary to the chosen colour.
No idea if CoH uses this entire selection, but if you want to use names for colors (instead of hex values), this site lists a whole mess of them.
I'll have to try some of these names out (Peachpuff? MistyRose?) to see if they all work.
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Hey, while we're at it, I thought I saw a 'jagged' chat bubble (as in an exclamation). Was I mistaken or has anyone else seen it? Or better yet, does anyone know how to reproduce it?
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Hey, while we're at it, I thought I saw a 'jagged' chat bubble (as in an exclamation). Was I mistaken or has anyone else seen it? Or better yet, does anyone know how to reproduce it?
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Team or SuperGroup chat shows up like that (to those that can see it)
I extracted the complete list of color names from CityOfHeroes.exe and it is identical to the list dunkrct linked to. I also discovered another parameter "duration" that you can use to control how long your chat bubbles stay over your head like so:
<duration 2>Read me quick!
It seems to take any number but the timer has a floor of about 2 seconds and a ceiling of about 20 seconds.
I was just wondering how you would bing the key "\" to talk in the group channel with colors?
Pretty easy. Just cut-n-paste this into your chat window:
/bind \ "beginchat /team <color red><bgcolor blue>"
Everytime you press '\', the chat line will activate and have the text above in already. Just type your message. Previous posts in this thread talk about something similar too. Hope that helps!
So I guess the next question is, once you've set up your nifty-keen chat bubble color keybind, does it stay or do you have to re-do it every time you log on?
also how whould you do something like when you press your sniper power it say pulling "name of the target"?
Chat modifiers (like <color> only apply to the current line of text you are typing. Keybinds last forever and are persistent through multiple login sessions.
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also how whould you do something like when you press your sniper power it say pulling "name of the target"?
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/bind P "team pulling $target$$powexec_name Taunt"
Replace Taunt with whatever your sniper power is called.
When i use chat bubbles with color, there is an indent before the text in the chat window. Does anyone know why?
redo the bind without the space in it and that indent will disappear.
Here's mine:
/bind ENTER "show chat$$beginchat <color #000000><bgcolor #ff8800><scale 4>"
I leave out the "border" command because it doesn't change the entire border (the "extension" mentioned above is the little triangular pointy thing that points at the person who is speaking). The "show chat" command opens the chat window if it's closed.
You don't need a reference list to tell you what hex colors will look like. It's pretty intuitive, actually. There are 6 digits. These digits represent three 2-digit color values. The first two digits are RED. The next two are GREEN. And the last two are BLUE. Like so:
<color #RRGGBB>
The digits are hex values, so they range from 0-9 and A-F, like so:
0123456789ABCDEF (16 total values)
0 is all the way off.
F is all the way on.
Turning one of the 2-digit numbers all the way on will give you that primary color:
RED = <color #FF0000>
GREEN = <color #00FF00>
BLUE = <color #0000FF>
(In the computer world, the primary colors are RED, GREEN, and BLUE. If you want YELLOW, you have to mix RED and GREEN in equal parts: <color #FFFF00>
If you want grays, simply give all the 2-digit numbers the same value:
Black will have all colors turned all the way off: <color #000000>
White will have all colors turned all the way on: <color #FFFFFF>
Light Gray: <color #CCCCCC>
Dark Gray: <color #333333>
Another thing you can do is, if you have Adobe Photoshop... you can pick a color and it'll show the HEX code in a little box. The other ways work equally well.
I used the eyedropper to pick parts of my costume and got the HEX code. =)
so...how would oyu make the backround color of the bubble clear or or transparent completly and no border either
that would be freakin awsome
Ok all, except for the color list, which I have found to be any HEX color, and the transparency of the background bubble, all of this /bind stuff is here:
bindFAQ
If you put in HEX color palette into google you will get plenty of free html tutorial sites with the full HEX color list on em, and how to adjust the color with the HEX value. The transpaerncy bubble is used by adding 00 to 90 onto the end of the HEX value for the background color.
Like <bgcolor #00ff00080> would be semi transparent, and 00 would be totally clear....
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Yes, that's all fine and dandy...
But - -
How do you change the color of the stem ("extension") that emerges from the bottom of your chatbubble?!
I mean - you get any color border you want, and then the border is abruptly stopped by a mandatory black-bordered triangular stem at the bottom of your chatbubble!
I want to make this the same color as my border- especially since, when with tranparency or black backgrounds, you cannot see the stem as well!
What command does this??
Also - how do you change your thought bubble? What command does this? (aka the binding on the semicolon button)
wow thnx everyone ive learned alot about bubbles now from this one thread lol.
Works just like the other bind above but you need to work it like this...
/bind ; "showchat$$beginchat <bgcolor ##0000FF><color #FFFFFF>; "
There are quite a few colors that can be represented by name. Here is my personal list of Named colors. I've put the names with the color as a background, and I have added the hex value as well.
My Color Guide
Except for doing custom binds, let's not forget that I3 introduced a way to make global changes to your chat bubbles, under Options.
This helped me alot, in that it shortens my binds up considerably. Now I only use colors in binds when they vary from my "normal" colors.
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Ok, i know this thread is 2 yrs old, but seeings as how a small issue was never resolved, i thought i would through it in and finalize the last issue. maybe itll help someone somewhere sometime eventually. maybe not. in any case, the little lightining stick that points to the character and the transparency aspects....you can get rid of those by setting your background color to have an alpha/tansparency note after the desired color(which is irrelevant) to zero/zero. so the bgcoilor tag should look like this: <bgcolor #FFFFFF00>
this will remove the little pointy bit and give you a completely transparent background. you can further modify it by removing the border with the same note and so now all you have it mystery floating text over your head. you can further confound ppl by making your text transparent and force ppl to read their chat windoiws....which is just rude to ppl who enjoy bubble-viewing. but...the options are yours.
the only thing is that you have to use the formal RGB values, not the color name. so it wont work like this <color red00><bgcolor black00><border white00><duration 10><scale 3>
youll get a big 10 second long mess. i have my mastermind set for this and its a solid silver border with red text and no background that last for 10 seconds, no pointy bit pointing at me: /bind enter "beginchat <color red><bgcolor #FFFAFA00><border silver><duration 10>"
so...theres that. hope it resolves that
That #OOFFOO code should be #00FF00... use the number zero, not the letter O