[REQ] Colored names

[Trickydude19]

Hi, I run a race server on MTA 1.0 and I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to script a colored name script for me. Meaning, everybody who comes on the server gets a random color for their name when they join. I'm not really good at scripting but any help would be much appreciated!

[darkdreamingdan]

Start the "playercolors" resource

[Trickydude19]

K, now I feel like an idiot. I must've skipped over that resources hundreds of times and not even think twice about it haha. Thanks a lot

[Trickydude19]

Well hmm, kind of strange. When a race is over and moves on to the next map, all the usernames are back to white again. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks!

[Gamesnert]

Playercolors seems to use nametag colors to color the chat. However, if a new map is started, this is being reset by mapmanager. Therefore, you need a slight change in the code.

In playercolors.lua (open it with notepad) replace:

addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", g_ResourceRoot,
function()
for i,player in ipairs(getElementsByType"player") do
		processPlayer ( player )
end
end
)

With:

function applyPlayerColors()
for i,player in ipairs(getElementsByType"player") do
		processPlayer ( player )
end
end
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", g_ResourceRoot,applyPlayerColors )
addEventHandler ( "onGamemodeMapStart", g_Root,applyPlayerColors )

This is pretty much the easiest solution. However, the colors will still randomly change after a map change. There are ways around this, but I guess this isn't such a serious issue anyways. (and it probably is a relief for people who get pink as random color)

[Trickydude19]

You would be surprised how many people in my clan vow for the pink nametag, ROFL. Also, worked like a charm, thanks for the help!