Guide to new chat system.
The guide has been updated some and I will continue to do so as I find or think of more useful information to add.
I hope this guide is useful to everyone. It helps explain how to use the new chat system. - Rocton of Atlantean
Please note that this guide is best used with new control panel (GUI). The examples in this guide are only one of many ways you can set the new chat system up.
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To make a new chat window
- Right click inside the chat window and choose chat config.
- Click "New Window"
- Enter the name you want for the new chat window.
- Double click the window name to open the window. (Under chat windows in chat config)
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Directing messages to the new window
- Highlight the window you want messages directed to. (In chat config)
- Under chat channels, highlight the channels you want directed to the window. (May need to unhighlight from default chat window for them not to show there)
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Muting unwanted channels
- Open chat configuration.
- Under chat channels, find the channel you want muted, right click it then choose "Mute ...."
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Configuring your windows to fit the GUI properly
- Default chat window can not be resized or moved in borderless mode, but it can be closed, so I just closed it and made a new chat window to replace it.
- To resize borderless windows you must first go to normal (bordered) mode to choose a location and size, then switch back to borderless mode.
- You can close windows you don't need until later, then when you open them later you see all the missed messages. (I keep my shopping window closed until I need it)
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Using tabs in normal (bordered) mode windows
- Open both windows you will be combining and set them to normal (bordered) mode.
- Right click and hold the tab of the first window and drag it into the tabs area of the second window.
- Now you have combined two chat windows and can click the tab to switch between them.
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Quickly switching chat channels - Information taken from Lace
- When in chat, and in the boxed version.. and you get the prompt to switch from.. say.. your Guild channel to Vinicity.. there is no need to having to click the mouse.. just type the following:
Enter
Tab Key
First letter of your channel choices
then Enter again.
I like this way much better than using the mouse to switch.
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Changing the font type and size
- On the login screen, click the "Settings" button.
- Click "Advanced Settings"
- Click choose font to change the font.
- Change the number in "Size" to change your font size.
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Changing text color for different groups
- Open Windows Explorer and navigate to "..../Funcom/Anarchy Online/cd_image/gui/Default/"
- Make a backup copy of the "TextColors.xml" file.
- Open "TextColors.xml" with notepad.
- The first section just seems to show which hex code displays what color:
(i.e. <HTMLColor name="yellow" color="0xFFFF00" />)
- The following is channel names such as the following for org chat:
(i.e. <HTMLColor name="ctch_clan" color="0x0ff20b" />)
Theres a second one that seems to go with org chat also:
(i.e. <HTMLColor name="CCClanColor" color="0x000ff20b" />)
- Say you want to change the color of org chat to yellow as listed in the example above:
Change the "0x0ff20b" in the first example to "0xFFFF00"
and the "0x000ff20b" in the second example to "0xFFFF00"
- Play around with this to figure out what the channel is listed as in the file. Also vicinity seems to be the same as system messages now so hopefully there will be a patch for this.
- Also note Anarchy Online needs to be restarted for the color changes to take effect.
Quote:
Originally posted by Meiyen
I have played with chat colors some, and created a file for those that wish to use it. This .zip file contains three files:
- OriginalTextColors.xml -> the official, original file
- ColoredTextColors.xml -> the original file but with all hex codes turned into color names so you can more easily tell what color you are looking at
- TextColors.xml -> my slightly modified file
These should be extracted and saved to the "..../Funcom/Anarchy Online/cd_image/gui/Default/" folder.
My color scheme is basically:
Vicinity, emotes, shouts, system messages are shades of yellow/tan
Tells, whispers are aqua
Organization, newbie, team, pgroup are shades of green
Shopping, links, seeking team are shades of blue
My pets, other pets are shades of orange
Towers, GM, and admin are shades of purple
My color scheme is based of the ColoredTextColors.xml file, so you can easily see what chat types are what colors, and modify by switching the names around in the xml file after you open it up with Notepad.
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To copy the chat window setup to alts. - Information taken from Faithslayer
<Anarchy Online Dir>\Prefs\<Account Name>\Char(Number)\Chat
Work out which character directory is the one you've already setup. (In my case it was easy.. the only one with a Chat Directory :P ) and Copy that directory into other \Char(Number)\ Directories.
For me, this copied all the setup information apart from which channels to mute, if there is a file specifically for mute info, does anyone know?
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Please let me know if you would like more examples of how to do this.
why does FC have to change something that worked perfectly?
*sigh*
spend like 2 hours yesterday in my chat config. after creating several new chat windows and trying to "order" and "categorize" this whole bunch of channels i came up with a chat window with some tabs for different channels in it.
well, so far so good...i wasnt able to figure out, how to "cylce" thru those tabs via keyboard, which is pretty st00pid. in combat im soo busy pressing buttons, that i wont be able to mouse-click-cycle thru different chat-windows and talk in those chats while doin so.
in the end i setup a single chat window which works pretty much like the old chat system (just have all chats in 1 win and mute the channels bugging u...).
then another thing: i cant use pageUp / Dn keys to scroll my chat win nemore!!!! now what a glorious idea is that again? if it's a bug then it's just another example of impudence by FC providing a new chat-tool with bugged essential features even AFTER delaying a so called "patch".
btw, very goooooood idea too is to have all messages colored red...hard to scan those massive battle-spam for what acutally HIT u or HEALED you or is just telling u that you're executing a nanoprogramm.
furthermore i heard from friends, that they have problems with their friends-list.
the only benefit i see from this system currently is, that u could run dmg-dumper in a really comfortable mode by having all the combat spam in a seperat window.
well, the chat-system is one of the most important things for gameplay. in order to play in a comfortable way it MUST work properly. so, if FC decides to relaunch a PERFECTLY working system, it should b replaced by a NON-BUGGY MORE COMFORTABLE system. everything else is just plain arrogant.
might sound a bit harsh here, but that's simply the status quo and as a paying customer i can at least expect a working communication in a game like this.
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