Is there a way to customize the appearance of text in the chat windows?

[Curveball]

Here is the issue I'm having... certain text that NPCs use in missions have a weird fade out effect that keeps from reading it. I've attached a screenshot. You'll notice the [NPC] text is fine, but [Caption] fades out from bottom to top:

 

 

Is there a way to change how caption text is rendered? I haven't found anything in settings - or if I have, I'm oblivious to it - and I don't think I can use /bind because /bind is focused on what keystrokes I use, not what the game is doing on its own.

[mechahamham]

Chat channel colors, including that fade effect, are largely uncustomizable. You can change the colors for global chat channels, but none of the colors for the default channels or captions. My understanding is that this causes our colorblind players more than a little difficulty.

 

What you can do is change the color and opacity of your windows, which makes them more readable to a certain degree. These are all in your 'Window' settings, iirc.

 

Another thing you can do to increase font readability is to mod in your own fonts. This requires a bit of plumbing in the CoH directory. If you're not comfortable moving files around on your computer or manually installing mods, this might not be an option for you. If you are, though, here's a thread with some instructions and suggestions: