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Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 5

Hiya folks !

Was just wondering is it possible to change colors for your mud character description (eg. finger) when the editor is built in to the mud ...

Like instead of just banzai you could get it in bold & red color ...

Thx in advance

Adept Joined: 29 Oct 2001 Posts: 250

You can, but you will be the only one to see the difference.You may want to check and see it your mud supports a color command, so that everyone else can see the difference also

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However, if you still want to change the colors, look in the zmud help files for #COLOR,#CW, and perhaps %ansi.

Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 5

Yeah mud is full ansi color and I have seen colors been used in other ppl's descriptions, they are done with some kinda of ansi code ... just dont know how to punch in the ansi :)

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

That is MUD specific. Since ANSI sequences use a non-printable character which is also used to communicate other stuff between the client and the MUD, you can't enter them directly and have it send to the MUD. Usually MUDs provide a syntax for entering ANSI color such as using ^R when you want everything after that to appear red. So, you'll have to ask around in your MUD or look for some documentation on it using the help command.

Kjata

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

Or, if you don't mind catering just to the MXP-enabled crowd (mainly zMUD 6.16 and up), check out http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/mxp.htm

A part of my description:
5766 ~~cute brown~~ EVIL
deer RIP

Except it's all on one line... i.e.,
5766 cute brown EVIL deer RIP

Achieved with:

5766 <s>cute brown</s> <b><font face=arial size=4 color=blue>EVIL</font></b> deer <color red>RIP</color red>

- Charbal