Colored Maptitle GUI | Quadropolis

Papriko | 2011-01-17 16:49

Colored Maptitle GUI

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Blurb A small and handy GUI to make colored maptitles.

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This is just a very simple script. Put it in your main sauerbraten folder, then add this line to your autoexec:
exec coloredmaptitle.cfg
and save. When you start up Sauerbraten the next time you should get a message about the color GUI being successfully installed.

With F8 you can call up a small window. With that you can make colored maptitles. It is somewhat easy to use, at least way easier than all those control-shift or control-alt combinations or however that worked...
In case you are really totally lost, there is a long description in the window self.

In addition does it include some new variables. These are mostly for command-line usage. Those codes like ^f3 (which are used to color strings) don't work when you type them directly ingame. The variables I mentioned are containing exactly those codes, what makes it possible to use them directly ingame. How to access (also pretty easy) is written in the description too.

Config file coloredmaptitle.cfg (2.77 KB)

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MeatROme | 2011-01-17 18:34

CC = "^L" // should be CTRL+L coltxt = [ concatword $CC $arg1 ] // example usage: words = [red green blue] color = [3 0 1] text = "" loop w (listlen $words) [ text = (concat $text (concatword (coltxt (at $color $w)) (at $words $w))) ] echo $text

Papriko | 2011-01-17 18:47

Yes, that's a more elegant way, but this script here was just a first try.

MeatROme | 2011-01-18 03:35

Well, I'm always glad when people start pushing the CubeScript-envelope; I just want to help by giving you constructive criticism on how to continue :-)
Basically: get more lazy - I've been seeing this with AssaultCube-Scripters a lot too - don't copy-n-paste a dozen lines, create loops! Whenever you have a list of possible entries into a field: use a list.
In this case I was just strongly suggesting to split the colour-char from the actual colour-identifier ("\f"/"^L" and 0..n) since the former is static, the latter is the optional element - if (one day) the engine supports more colours it's cleaner to just append new values to the potential-list-of-colours than to have to double-check you've put in all the extra-lines as you'd have to do in your current approach.

Papriko | 2011-01-18 16:22

Ooooohhh, you mean stick everything with a finite amount of inputs into a list?

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