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by Tim Heldna · in Torque Game Engine · 09/01/2006 (10:21 am) · 7 replies

Hi,

I'd be extremely greatful if someone could tell me where:

- MsgClientKilled
- MsgClientJoin
- MsgObjective

And so on are defined. I want to change the default colours for these different types of messages. I always thought they were defined in defaultGameProfiles.cs but it appears I was mistaken.

Thanks.

- Tim.
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Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#1
09/01/2006 (10:23 am)
Find in Files is your friend. I dont know where 90% of the functions I use are. Use a program like UltraEdit to search your project for the function declarations.

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#2
09/01/2006 (10:33 am)
I tried Find in Files.

Just to clarify, I know I can change font colours with this in defaultGameProfiles.cs:
new GuiControlProfile ("ChatHudMessageProfile")
{
   fontType = "Arial";
   fontSize = 16;
   fontColor = "44 172 181";      // default color (death msgs, scoring, inventory)
   fontColors[1] = "4 235 105";   // client join/drop, tournament mode
   fontColors[2] = "219 200 128"; // gameplay, admin/voting, pack/deployable
   fontColors[3] = "77 253 95";   // team chat, spam protection message, client tasks
   fontColors[4] = "40 231 240";  // global chat
   fontColors[5] = "200 200 50 200";  // used in single player game
   // WARNING! Colors 6-9 are reserved for name coloring 
   autoSizeWidth = true;
   autoSizeHeight = true;
};

What I want to know is, where does it define MsgClientJoin = fontColors[1] etc?

Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#3
09/01/2006 (10:35 am)
I believe it is done using color codes: /c1 = fontColors[1]

ex:

'/c1Player has entered the game'

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#4
09/01/2006 (10:38 am)
Well, too late :)

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#5
09/01/2006 (10:45 am)
Of course, ok thank you.

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#6
09/01/2006 (11:24 am)
FYI, those commands are in the /common directory (common to any project, therefore in...common!). That's probably why they didn't get found with a find in files--most people forget about that directory.

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#7
09/01/2006 (11:44 am)
No I searched my whole project, perhaps I was just using the wrong search words.

To be honest I still can't find where all the message types (%msgType) are actually stored.

Edit:
Don't mind me, I worked it out. Please forgive my stupidity =)