Hex Colors

[Pazuzu]

How much of an overhaul of the game would be necessary to implement hex colors (ie #000=black, #fff=white, #f00=red, etc) in names and messages? Just out of curiosity.

[SlackerLinux]

wouldnt take much effort but why

the colours we got now is plenty and there wouldn't be much space left in names after using a colourcodes since a single colourcode could be #FFFFFFFF(less 2 FF's if alpha wouldn't be supported)

also your colourcodes are wrong FF is 8bit(255 values) so black(w/out alpha) would be #000000 white(w/out alpha) #FFFFFF etc...

[Pazuzu]

I take it you've never seen 12-bit hex colors. AFAIK it's supported under HTML- each color gets 4 bits instead of 8, so that's a total of three hex digits per color.

[SlackerLinux]

I take it you've never seen 12-bit hex colors. AFAIK it's supported under HTML- each color gets 4 bits instead of 8, so that's a total of three hex digits per color.

maybe im missing something but if #FFF is white then that's only 4bits per colour 12bit per colour would be #FFFFFFFFF since each hex charater is equal to 4bits anyway everything uses 8bits per colour

EDIT wait i know what you mean about 12bit hex colours but thats kinda useless

[Undeference]

How much of an overhaul of the game would be necessary to implement hex colors (ie #000=black, #fff=white, #f00=red, etc) in names and messages? Just out of curiosity.

Pointless

I take it you've never seen 12-bit hex colors.

The three-digit RGB notation (#rgb) is converted into six-digit form (#rrggbb) by replicating digits, not by adding zeros. For example, #fb0 expands to #ffbb00. This ensures that white (#ffffff) can be specified with the short notation (#fff) and removes any dependencies on the color depth of the display.

it's supported under HTML in CSS

Fixed

[DraZiLoX]

Doens't Nexuiz have these? Or do i remember competely wrong.

[Thoth]

Yes, Nexuiz does, ever since the last last release I believe. It would be nice to have hex colors, they are a lot more useful then you think they would be (considering slight altering of colors to eliminate text blending with the map). 

[Tremulant]

they are a lot more useful then you think they would be

A lot? go on then, explain their usefulness.

[DraZiLoX]

they are a lot more useful then you think they would be

A lot? go on then, explain their usefulness.

It's cool and that is usefull!

[David]

IMO hex colours is overkill (and probably confusing to idiots) but we should extend the current system beyond the current 8 colours.

We could even go for a comprimise between the two, and use base64 encoded 6-bit colour, it's still only one char long but with "easy" conversion from hex values .

[gimhael]

You can encode the full RGBA range with just 5 base85 characters...

[A Spork]

IMO hex colours is overkill (and probably confusing to idiots) but we should extend the current system beyond the current 8 colours.

We could even go for a comprimise between the two, and use base64 encoded 6-bit colour, it's still only one char long but with "easy" conversion from hex values .

I would think we could easily add at least two more right now, seeing as 9 and 0 are repeats....

[Pazuzu]

IMO hex colours is overkill (and probably confusing to idiots) but we should extend the current system beyond the current 8 colours.

We could even go for a comprimise between the two, and use base64 encoded 6-bit colour, it's still only one char long but with "easy" conversion from hex values .

That would be even more confusing tbh, but it could work with a table.