How to color your chat text

This explains how you are able to change your text colors in the game. Cegaiel has added a color picker to istariareference.com which you can use to review different colors in the correct istaria format.

Overview

Changing colors in the chat is based on the following command part:

<!--color r=0.5 g=0.5 b=1>

• r= defines the red color part
• g= defines the green color part
• b= defines the blue color part
• You can use numbers between 0.0 and 1.0 for each color
• To pick colors easily you may want to visit https://istariareference.com/color/

Changing your color for your default channel

• Right click on your main chat box (the one with the text line below)
• Select 'chat settings'
• Add your favorite code to the 'Default Command Prefix:' line and activate the checkbox

• This enables the color for /say text
• If you want to default to another channel you can prefix it with i.e. /gu, or /g, or /chat <channel>
  • Examples:
    • for guild: /gu <!--color r=0.5 g=0.5 b=0.5>
    • for group: /g <!--color r=0.5 g=0.5 b=0.5>
    • for the marketplace chat: /chat markeplace <!--color r=0.5 g=0.5 b=0.5>

Using aliases to be even more colorful

For help on using /alias, please read here

Currently (2022/12/23) there is a problem when adding certain characters to the /alias command. Therefore you need to manually edit the alias commands def file. To do so, do the following steps:

• Enter into your chat bar: /alias test test
• Now log out of the game (the alias will be saved then)
• Open your character's preference directory.
  • This is usually found at: <your Istaria install directory>/prefs/<shard>_<charactername>
• Edit the UICommunicationPrefs.def file using notepad
• Scroll down to the end. You should see an ALIAS section
• There's a 'Long = "test"' line. Replace the "test" content with your command (Examples below)
• There's a 'Short = "test"' line. Replace the "test" content with your shortcut (Examples below)
• Copy and paste the whole ALIAS{} section to add another alias. Don't forget to edit it accordingly
• Save the file and log back into the game

Examples:

• For group chat:
  • string Long = "g <!--color r=0.5 g=0.5 b=0.5> "
  • string Short = "gr"
  • (type /gr to the chat field followed with your text)
• For guild chat:
  • string Long = "gu <!--color r=0.5 g=0.5 b=0.5> "
  • string Short = "gd"
  • (type /gd to the chat field followed with your text)
• For marketplace chat:
  • string Long = "c marketplace <!--color r=0.5 g=0.5 b=0.5> "
  • string Short = "mp"
  • (type /mp to the chat field followed with your text)