Name Tag Help

[fridge]

Name Tag Choices using ESC + F3 have 3 options: name tags on all ships, no name tag on just your ship. and no names on all ships. I prefer to play with no named ships, but that proves difficult for team-oriented zones/games.

 

My question is if there is any way to adjust it, or a download, that will allow me to show no names on all ships, EXCEPT for the ships on my team / same freq, or anything that distinguishes whoever is on my team, if I play with no names on ships, ... like color tint or something. Any help is appreciated, thank you.

[Shock]

I'm about 99% sure that this isn't possible.

[★ Maverick]

It's not possible.

The only way to distinguish teammates when having no names displayed is with the radar.

[★ Dav]

I think there may be one way to do this but it would involve completely losing team chat so all in all it wouldn't be viable.

 

What you would have to do is black out the yellow font in your font.bm2 (i think)

 

other then that this is 100% impossible.

[Hakaku]

Blank out the blue characters line in /graphics/tallfont.bm2

and in /graphics/tallfontf.bm2

 

It means you'll also lose the ability of using public chat (not team chat), so it might look odd unless you disable pub chat (type ?nopubchat) also.

 

But yeah, no real other way of getting around it unless you don't care for pub chat.

Edited May 20, 2007 by Hakaku

[★ Dav]

oh misread and thought it was remove the names of his team :S

 

*goes gets a coffee to wake up*

[★ CRe]

u can change the color of your pub chat

[★ Dav]

yep you can change the font as well as long as you are willing to make the edits to the file and do them correctly so the alignments work.

[fridge]

I blacked out the fonts and it worked aside from losing pub chat, but I do like public chatting.

 

I want to do the edits to the file to change the color of the pub chat but I have no idea how to start.

 

Can anyone refer me to an online help manual or a newbie guide as to how to do this? Thanks for the help.

[🜲 PoLiX]

Sadly, you're dealing with a 10yr old game here, and expecting something too much bro. Just to get the point everyone else is making across.

 

Font colors are shared for many duties, although should not be, but are, and thus cannot be changed/seperated. Public Chat and Enemy Player name's are shared font. So cannot be changed seperately.

 

So sadly, it is impossible to do without losing 1 or the other, sorry bro.