This short write-up is an attempt to explain everything color token. Upon reading this, you should be able to create, with next to zero effort, text strings of any color anywhere (almost), including, but not limited to :-
for players : PC name/description
for builders : general object name/description (creature, item...)
for scripters : script (floating text, spoken strings...)
for content makers : talk table (spellbook, radial menu...)
While this write-up should be of interest to everyone, this isn't a tutorial to building, scripting or 2da/tlk editing. You must have relevant knowledge if you want to use color tokens in the respective fields. The emphasis of this write-up is the concept of color tokens and colors in general only.
I saved a lot of time thanks to your document. Thanks ! _________________________ Spellcasting Framework Wild/Dead Magic Zone (Spellcasting Framework add-on)
Posted by qworty at on08/16/07
I regularly refer to this. Good job man.
Posted by MasterInsan0 at on07/17/07
I really didn't understand color tokens until I downloaded this. gaoneng, great stuff as usual. I think I've used more of your custom content and tips than anything else on the vault =P. Thanks.
Posted by Spectral at on07/08/07
Great tool, couldn't do without it =) (Believe me, I've tried) _________________________ "Where do you run, when the earth becomes your enemy?"
Posted by Dellyn at on07/07/07
Oh my... Finally I got some understanding of this coloring stuff thanks for you. I REALLY appreciate to found this great tutorial at last. Thanks! It's very useful. _________________________ "Oh, bless me, angel!" asks me a guy. "I'm a dark angel" with smile I reply. "Have no blesses in my purse, What about a hellish curse?"
Posted by DM-Taino at on07/02/07
Excellent and easy to use... Thank you Taino
Posted by birdman076 at on07/02/12
Thank you for this great tutorial.
Posted by blkcat1028 at on03/27/07
Great work! Excellent tutorial. _________________________ Can't sleep, clowns will eat me!
Posted by Ghostdreamer at on03/05/07
I've been using this for a long time now and only just realised that I never voted. Works flawlessly! Cheers, Ghost
Posted by Gangster_No1 at on01/30/07
Hiya! Voted "only" 9.75 because there is one flaw, or rather technical limitation, that hasn't been mentioned: When the colored text is too long and the token vanishes from the screen, the colored text becomes either white (most of the time) or some random color. To veryify this, create an item with a rather long colored text in its description field. While examining that item in-game, scroll down so the first line (in which the token is) disappears. The text will change color immediately. I know that this is a technical limitation or flaw of the game engine itself, and not gaoneng's mistake. But for a full 10.0 that info should have been included. Other than that, it's simply great! :) Cheers! _________________________ "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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