04-16-2004, 05:33 AM
I started a Tauren druid, but I found that I couldn't read the dark blue text very well against the grassy Tauren background. So, I decided to take my chances with "advanced chat".
When advanced chat is checked, you can select each of your chat window areas and fiddle with them. They're called "chat 1" and "chat 2", but you can rename them. That's of course NOT the same as "channel 1", etc. It was pretty easy to customize the font size, and change the colors around. It changes everything in the window, which is helpful, because you can read your own scrollback to see how it looks, rather than having to spam people to send you different kinds of messages.
At the present moment, it seems that all chat-type messages appear in "chat 1", and all combat-type messages appear in "chat 2". I know in NWN it was easy to customize this so that you could have change where you saw different types of messages. So, when I saw the chat channel I was in (lurkers, of course!) in the customization section for "chat 2", I assumed that was where I might change where my "lurkers" chat appeared. For the record, clicking on that made error messages pop up, and my chat 2 disappeared for a while. I'm guessing that's because the channel isn't available in chat 2, so there was nothing to customize about it at the moment, but I'm not sure.
I'll fiddle with it some more when I get a chance.
-Griselda
When advanced chat is checked, you can select each of your chat window areas and fiddle with them. They're called "chat 1" and "chat 2", but you can rename them. That's of course NOT the same as "channel 1", etc. It was pretty easy to customize the font size, and change the colors around. It changes everything in the window, which is helpful, because you can read your own scrollback to see how it looks, rather than having to spam people to send you different kinds of messages.
At the present moment, it seems that all chat-type messages appear in "chat 1", and all combat-type messages appear in "chat 2". I know in NWN it was easy to customize this so that you could have change where you saw different types of messages. So, when I saw the chat channel I was in (lurkers, of course!) in the customization section for "chat 2", I assumed that was where I might change where my "lurkers" chat appeared. For the record, clicking on that made error messages pop up, and my chat 2 disappeared for a while. I'm guessing that's because the channel isn't available in chat 2, so there was nothing to customize about it at the moment, but I'm not sure.
I'll fiddle with it some more when I get a chance.
-Griselda
Why can't we all just get along
--Pete
--Pete