Speech in emotes

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notgreg
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Speech in emotes

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It would be crazy helpful for my old eyes if the emote command could detect when you use quotes and highlight those bits in a different color! Just in terms of keeping up with what people are saying.
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Honestly, same. I'd maybe make this a toggle/option, just in case folks don't want that highlighted/color difference for whatever reason. But it'd be super helpful - this is something I struggle with, especially in rooms that have 4 or 5 or more people all doing a mix of Says and Emotes
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This would be quite epic.
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Any color suggestions? Limited to the few ANSI colors available seen elsewhere in the game.
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Perhaps colouring the action dark-grey and keeping the text white may work?
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I'd possibly go with the "green" that is currently used for "XYZ says,"?
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The Green for Says works, but I like the idea of a Dark Grey to contrast with the white.
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While the speech in emotes is being worked on, could I request that that speech also get picked up with UYTO. It's soooo inconvenient when I'm eavesdropping and am missing half of the conversation.
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I played around with the colors a bit. Dark gray action text get lost too easily in the black background. Keeping the action text bright white and making the speech text either plain white or "speech green" didn't seem to work well with my brain. I eventually settled on having it match the coloring of the SAY command, so action text is in the bright green and speech text is in default white. My mind seems to like that better, equating it with just a fancier say and matching up nonverbal action text with the green and the actual verbal speech text with the default white just like in SAYs.

That worked for me anyway, but I'm happy to hear feedback. This is of course one of those things that may come down to a simple matter of taste so it will likely simply stay how it is unless there's an overwhelming majority who prefer another specific color combination.
nobody wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:13 pm While the speech in emotes is being worked on, could I request that that speech also get picked up with UYTO.
Done! And the speech bits are also extracted and shown to nearby listeners if they can't visually see the emoter (hiding, room is dark or extremely foggy, etc).
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Having it resemble the SAY command will probably be beneficial. Also, regarding the new changes to say in stealth, perhaps we could set a modifier that we feel adequately suits our characters' voice (perhaps from a pre-determined list) to replace the number with. Would it work perfectly, no, but some people _do_ sound the same IRL and it would at least give variation.
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