MHertz Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 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? 1 The original @Hertz, creator of the Stan and Lou audio series on YouTube. Player of City of Heroes for yonks.1 1A yonk is a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaliw Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannical Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHertz Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 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. The original @Hertz, creator of the Stan and Lou audio series on YouTube. Player of City of Heroes for yonks.1 1A yonk is a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clave Dark 5 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 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. _____________________________ Hi, I'm Clave Dark 5! You may remember me from such characters as King Pumpkin Spice, Stupid Like A Fox, Capt Sam's Space Zoo, The Pink Bamfer, Trash Ghost, Maid Of Metal... as well as a few really stupid AE arcs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoptartsNinja Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outrider_01 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 The color is, drum roll please Nemesis plot It will be any shade you don't want it 1 "Farming is just more fun in my opinion, beating up hordes of angry cosplayers...." - Coyotedancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasperStone Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Naomi Posted November 23, 2022 Developer Share Posted November 23, 2022 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 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greycat Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Oh, that's nifty to play with. :) Primarily on Everlasting. Squid afficionado. Former creator of Copypastas. General smartalec. I tried to combine Circle and DE, but all I got were garden variety evil mages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanden Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 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. 1 A Cheat Sheet for efficient Endurance Recovery slotting Invention Set Designer Tool Spreadsheet with every Ancillary Power Pool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudra Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdread Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 The player name color picker could perhaps be integrated into the system that allows you to customize your title? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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