How To: Colors in Description
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:40 pm
Before I get into details on how to; I'd like to offer a few pieces of advices. I suggest against coloring all of your character's description, the rainbow mess is hard on the eyes to read. Instead, focus colors on pins or remarkable features that should draw a player's attention, much as the trait itself would if someone was looking at them.
Edit: Use colors with moderation and be mindful of bright colors, avoid them unless you're going for very specific pins.
Here's an example of what can be done:
How To:
If you try to set the description with color doing normal -description "bla bla bla" command, the color won't carry over to the description. Instead, you have to use the PIN to text method.
Hoes does pin work?
Open your map (press "M")
Click on the top left icon to add a pin to the map as image shows:
Once you place the pin anywhere on the map a pin box will pop up so you can type whatever description you want in:
In order to have color applied to the text you will need to add the code in the pin box and in order to find out what color you want, a very good website you can use is:
https://colortoken.nwn1.net/
Simply click anywhere on the color map, copy the "NWN token" as image shows:
Paste the code in the pin text box, for example "<c ½> Blue blue blue blue" , which will result in:
Finish all of the description, click "OK"
Now write down the command:
-description +pin
Everything you wrote down in the pin text box will be transferred to your character description, formating will be kept!
Further tips:
Save that description using the command:
-savedesc "NAME"
Now whenever you use the command -loadoutfit "NAME" it will load both the outfit (you need to have an outfit saved under that same name) and the description that matches the name. This is particularly useful for those of you with multiple disguises and a description for each of them. (don't forget your cover description you lazy people )
Hope this is clear, if you have any questions, ask away.
Edit: Use colors with moderation and be mindful of bright colors, avoid them unless you're going for very specific pins.
Here's an example of what can be done:
How To:
If you try to set the description with color doing normal -description "bla bla bla" command, the color won't carry over to the description. Instead, you have to use the PIN to text method.
Hoes does pin work?
Open your map (press "M")
Click on the top left icon to add a pin to the map as image shows:
Once you place the pin anywhere on the map a pin box will pop up so you can type whatever description you want in:
In order to have color applied to the text you will need to add the code in the pin box and in order to find out what color you want, a very good website you can use is:
https://colortoken.nwn1.net/
Simply click anywhere on the color map, copy the "NWN token" as image shows:
Paste the code in the pin text box, for example "<c ½> Blue blue blue blue" , which will result in:
Finish all of the description, click "OK"
Now write down the command:
-description +pin
Everything you wrote down in the pin text box will be transferred to your character description, formating will be kept!
Further tips:
Save that description using the command:
-savedesc "NAME"
Now whenever you use the command -loadoutfit "NAME" it will load both the outfit (you need to have an outfit saved under that same name) and the description that matches the name. This is particularly useful for those of you with multiple disguises and a description for each of them. (don't forget your cover description you lazy people )
Hope this is clear, if you have any questions, ask away.