getColorFromString

[John Smith]

hello

i got one question

i have my own nametags and i want that if a player has nick like with two colors that those 2 colors get drawn in nametag

but theres just one color and that color is random one which freeroam decides

i seen in scoreboard resource that there is used getColorFromString to draw multiple colors but i didnt understand how to put it in my script

does anyone know how should the line look to get all colors in nametag and draw it?

[Walid]

Sorry i don't undrestand your question but As i undrestand you are asking about how to change name tag color , you can use html color codes like this ex : #FFFFFFName

[John Smith]

lol i know how to use html color codes,thats not the problem

the problem is here in example

dxDrawText( string.gsub(getElementData(v,"pnick"), "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", ""), x, y, x, y, tocolor(rr, gg, bb), scale + ( 15 - dist ) * 0.02, myFont ) -- using gsub thing to remove e.g #FF0000 from nametag text  

lets say theres player Mike and that all regular players with no team have white nametag color

so it will draw text Mike in White color

however if mike decides to have two colors like

#00ff00Mi#0000ffke then on chat and scoreboard he will have green-blue nick but on my nametag system he will still have default white Mike text

and i want that if he has html color codes in name that it updates so that he also has two colors on my nametag system

i hope you understand what i meant now

[Anubhav]

Its not HTML colors. HTML don't have colors. Its hex codes lol. What is pnick? What is it data.

[John Smith]

its players nick with /pnick instead of /nick

[Anubhav]

I am not sure what do you want do, If I am right you are making a text on screen which shows player name right?

[John Smith]

yeah its already drawn and its showing name totally fine im just trying to show the thing i wanna make but idk how

if player doesnt have any hex color codes then his name looks like this

Mike - in white color

but if he has 2 or more colors on his nick its suppost to be like

Mike

but on my nametag system it still shows Mike in white color instead of those above 2 colors

actually in my server the player can have infinite number of colors on his name but in here showing just 2 ones as example

[Anubhav]

The string.gsub will remove ALL HEX codes.

[John Smith]

it will remove hex codes in way of this

before - #00FF00Mi#0000FFke

later - Mike

but its still not in 2 colors in nametag

and i believe there are no 2 colors in nametag because i would need to remove gsub thing and somehow use getColorFromString function but i dont know how to use it so i didnt remove it yet

can you help me with how to use getColorFromString in this case?

[Anubhav]

I'm not sure how do with it. I don't think its possible to check 2 hex in nick. You may suggest it.

[John Smith]

you think its not possible?how?half of mta servers got nametag system like that,most popular ones in race would be TG or FFS

and theres even the code in dxscoreboard which does this

if column.name == "name" then 
                                local playerName = getElementData( player, "pnick" ) -- here i changed the definition so it puts that data on scoreboard 
                                if serverInfo.allowcolorcodes then 
                                    if string.find( playerName, "#%x%x%x%x%x%x" ) then 
                                        local colorCodes = {} 
                                        while( string.find( playerName, "#%x%x%x%x%x%x" ) ) do 
                                            local startPos, endPos = string.find( playerName, "#%x%x%x%x%x%x" ) 
                                            if startPos then 
                                                colorCode = string.sub( playerName, startPos, endPos ) 
                                                table.insert( colorCodes, { { getColorFromString( colorCode ) }, startPos } ) 
                                                playerName = string.gsub( playerName, "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", "", 1 ) 

i just dont know how to "transform" this code into my code so that it would work

[John Smith]

umm help?

[Saml1er]

Lol then simply don't remove hex codes in your nametag script.

  
dxDrawText( getElementData(v,"pnick"), x, y, x, y, tocolor(rr, gg, bb), scale + ( 15 - dist ) * 0.02, myFont ,false,false,false,true) 
  

[John Smith]

Lol then simply don't remove hex codes in your nametag script.

  
dxDrawText( getElementData(v,"pnick"), x, y, x, y, tocolor(rr, gg, bb), scale + ( 15 - dist ) * 0.02, myFont ,false,false,false,true) 
  

there still wont be any other color, but just one,the nametag color which freeroam sets by default

and it will also look like this

#00FF00Mi#0000FFke -- an example

[Saml1er]

Lol then simply don't remove hex codes in your nametag script.

  
dxDrawText( getElementData(v,"pnick"), x, y, x, y, tocolor(rr, gg, bb), scale + ( 15 - dist ) * 0.02, myFont ,false,false,false,true) 
  

there still wont be any other color, but just one,the nametag color which freeroam sets by default

and it will also look like this

#00FF00Mi#0000FFke -- an example

No it won't. Test the code and you'll see.

EDIT: I made a typo, copy again.

  
dxDrawText( getElementData(v,"pnick"), x, y, x, y, tocolor(rr, gg, bb), scale + ( 15 - dist ) * 0.02, myFont ,"left","top",false,false,true)