Show the color of the character name

[MHertz]

When the "individual name colors" setting is on, each name is converted to a fixed color — some hash process, I suppose. 

 

Is there any way to show which color the name is while we are building and naming the toon? It would be helpful to match the color of costume pieces to the name, or to tweak the name to produce a specific color effect. Maybe if you have a cold-based hero you want your name to be blue, instead of neon pink. Or whatever.

 

Is that possible?

[Yaliw]

If I'm not mistaken, it's based on the first letter of the name.

 

Edit: I am mistaken 

Edited November 21, 2022 by Yaliw

[Alchemystic]

I would love it if it could match the colors you choose for your title, so there's some cohesion between your name in text and in game.

[MHertz]

1 hour ago, Yaliw said:

If I'm not mistaken, it's based on the first letter of the name.

I don’t think so. I have a SG of what are essentially clones, all named Wild Willow (using capital i and lower-case L to create the illusion of the same name). Four are green, one is red, one is brown, and one is blue.

[Clave Dark 5]

I've only recently started doing that with the names, because why not, and the first toon I put it on was PINK BAMPFER and guess what color his name came out as?  Yup, pink.  I wondered if maybe the system takes any color in your name as a suggested color, maybe make a BLUE VJHFCGHFH just to see if it comes out blue.

[PoptartsNinja]

It does have to do with the characters, but the game basically adds the (ascii?) values of all the letters together and turns that into a color, then repeatedly adds 5 until it reaches a minimum brightness of 127.

[Outrider_01]

The color is, drum roll please

 

Nemesis plot

 

It will be any shade you don't want it

[JasperStone]

On 11/21/2022 at 12:02 PM, Outrider_01 said:

The color is, drum roll please

 

Nemesis plot

 

It will be any shade you don't want it

Nemesis

<.<

>.>

I KNEW IT!

[Naomi]

Unfortunately there isn't!

 

I did take a look at the code involved out of curiosity and the bulk of the generation is done by a hashing process that's also used by other systems. As mentioned by someone else, the result is then brought up to a minimum brightness if the luminosity is too low.

 

I went ahead and ported the relevant portions to an html/javascript page you can run locally to test names out, if it helps.

 

The zip file contains the .htm file (which you can read and edit in a text editor).

 

It's possible some anti-virus might freak out at that, or it might not work at all since locally run pages might have their javascript turned off as a security feature from your browser, anti-virus or something else.

coh-name-colors.zip

[Greycat]

Oh, that's nifty to play with. :)

[Vanden]

I'd rather they just make it possible to choose what color our name will be if they're going to put work into this feature.

[Rudra]

Agreed with @Vanden. If player name colors are to be worked on, I think being able to pick your name color would be far better than hoping to get the color you want.

[drdread]

The player name color picker could perhaps be integrated into the system that allows you to customize your title?