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stlnegril9 has Megaquarium

2 Jun, 2020 @ 8:21am

mod question on color codes

Some items (such as food items, tools) use a "color" tag to change the text color in menus (perhaps among other things) and the 'code' used is not very obvious.e.g.:
"color":"0xFBAC46FF",

Some, but not all of these have descriptions in gui.data (for zones). It resembles some type of hex, but a (not very thorough) web search can't find anything anywhere matching/describing these.

For our own color selection is there either
A) a definition of what the code means (a translator)
or
B) a thorough list of all the codes recognized (with color described, ala gui.data)?

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Twice Circled [developer] 3

3 Jun, 2020 @ 1:03am

Yes, no problem. I hope I've understood your questions.

0xFBAC46FF is as you suggested a hex code. The 0x is "computer speak" for "the following series of numbers is going to be in hex".

On the web (HTML, CSS) hex colors normally appear with a # in front of them so the first thing is to replace the 0x withe a #.

#FBAC46FF

Each pair of numbers refers to a color component FB = red, AC = green, 46 = blue, FF = alpha/transparency. FF is opaque, 00 is transparent. Each of the components is on a scale of 00 to FF.

To see what the color is online, the easiest thing is to remove the alpha digits so you are left with #FBAC46.

Copy and paste that into google: https://www.google.com/search?q=%23FBAC46 and you get a color. Drag the color picker around it will give you the hex for any color imaginable. Add the FF back on, swap the # for 0x and you have translated it back to the format used by the game.

Last edited by Twice Circled; 3 Jun, 2020 @ 1:04am