[Feature Request] Colors in descriptions and item names

[lisacvuk]

I've got a Christmas wish. I would like that Minetest supports colors in descriptions and item names. Something like this...

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"^3This text is red.^5This text is blue."


I just hope its not too much to ask for :D

[rubenwardy]

This should be accompanied by allowing tools tips of an item to be changed at run time, using meta data.

[kaadmy]

@lisacvuk: Is that Quake inspiration?

@lisacvuk, @rubenwardy: +1 to both ideas :)

[Calinou]

@lisacvuk: Is that Quake inspiration?

If we ever go for Quake-style coloring, I would much prefer an Xonotic or Unvanquished-style syntax like this:

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^xFFFWhite text, ^xF00Red text

This would be even better (4th component being the alpha channel):

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^xFFFFWhite opaque text, ^xF008Red semi-transparent text

[everamzah]

^3quake ^2style ^7would be super ^0l33t ^2for regular in-game chat, tho. ^1(c) bulat
bulat did not actually say that

edit: actually, there's a lot of stuff that i miss from quake. the most important thing to me when i started playing this game was +zoom. sorry to derail. (ps: \bind command, and \alias oh my oh my)

[kaadmy]

cvars FTW ;)

[lisacvuk]

Yeah, from Quake :D
My next suggestion would be binds. But later on that.
I really like the transparency idea.
This would make it possible to make mods that list item qualities, like in Team Fortress 2 for example, or for changing the color of the item name according to the number of times it was dug (making the fresh-crafted ones more statisfying to place :D)

[asanetargoss]

This should be accompanied by allowing tools tips of an item to be changed at run time, using meta data.

As someone less familiar with the modding API, I am surprised this is not already a feature!

[kaadmy]

Or even better: allow tools to change dig capabilities with metadata.
Custom tools ;)

[sofar]

I'm working on a PR to support custom ItemStack text - the thing that gets displayed in the tooltip.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/3449

once that is done, I don't see why that code couldn't be enhanced to support color.

[lisacvuk]

I'm working on a PR to support custom ItemStack text - the thing that gets displayed in the tooltip.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/3449

once that is done, I don't see why that code couldn't be enhanced to support color.

Awesome! I can try to help adding colors to it, but with my limited knowledge of C++, I'm not sure I can.