Color codes in nametags and chat

[megaman54]

I wonder how i can enable them. Currently when i type like #00ff00 TEST in chat, it doesnt show the color and the nametags in game shows the color codes instead of the actual colors. How can i fix this?

[-ffs-Sniper]

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/OutputChatBox

The syntax (server-side) is:

bool outputChatBox ( string text [, element visibleTo=getRootElement(), int r=255, int g=255, int b=255, bool colorCoded=false ] ) 

ColorCoded is false by default. In case you would like to have a color coded chatbox message set this to true. Check your gamemode for an "onPlayerChat" event.

@Nametags:

Default nametags do not support hexdecimal color codes.

[megaman54]

Ok i got the chat fixed now thanks. But if i want the color codes to work in nametags do i have to make a new nametag script?

[TwiX!]

Ok i got the chat fixed now thanks. But if i want the color codes to work in nametags do i have to make a new nametag script?

function dxDrawColorText(str, ax, ay, bx, by, color, scale, font,alignX,alignY,clip, wordBreak, postGUI) 
    if not str then return false end 
    str = " "..str 
    ax= ax - dxGetTextWidth(" ", scale, font) 
    local pat = "(.-)#(%x%x%x%x%x%x)" 
    local s, e, cap, col = str:find(pat, 1) 
    local last = 1 
    while s do 
        if s ~= 1 or cap ~= "" then 
            local w = dxGetTextWidth(cap, scale, font) 
            dxDrawText(cap, ax, ay, ax + w, by, color, scale, font,alignX,alignY,clip, wordBreak, postGUI) 
            ax = ax + w 
            color = tocolor(tonumber("0x"..string.sub(col, 1, 2)), tonumber("0x"..string.sub(col, 3, 4)), tonumber("0x"..string.sub(col, 5, 6)), 255) 
        end 
        last = e+1 
        s, e, cap, col = str:find(pat, last) 
    end 
    if last <= #str then 
        cap = str:sub(last) 
        local w = dxGetTextWidth(cap, scale, font) 
        dxDrawText(cap, ax, ay, ax + w, by, color, scale, font,alignX,alignY,clip, wordBreak, postGUI) 
    end 
end 

[-ffs-Sniper]

@TwiX:

That is not going to help him much since the positioning and scaling is pretty much impossible for scripting newbies. In addition to that "dxDrawText" already has an argument for colored texts.