MUME Help

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ANSI, CHANGE COLOUR, COLORS, COLOURS

To get your favourite MUD (or MUME, depending on your point of view) in ANSI colour, use the change colour command.

You can change the colour settings for either of the following fields:

achievement	code-type	magic	room-desc	zone-evil
avoid-damage	code-var	miss	say	zone-good
character	damage	movement-in	shout	zone-neutral
code	emote	movement-out	social	zone-nice
code-const	emphasis	narrate	song	outdoors (*)
code-debug	enemy	normal	status	sunny (*)
code-error	exits	object	tell
code-fn	header	player	weather
code-number	hit	pray	yell
code-string	look	prompt	zone-bad

Where:

character is used for character (mobile or player) names; some mobiles that look like plants don't have this markup
enemy is applied in addition to character for cross-race player enemies
player is applied in addition to character for non-enemy player characters
movement-in and movement-out are used when characters move in and out of your room by special means. Regular movement (north, east, etc.) is not coloured, to avoid being spammy.
sunny is only available to Orcs and Trolls and is used as special colouring of exits to sunny rooms.
outdoors is only available to Trolls and is used as special colouring of exits to outdoors (but not currently sunny) rooms.
status makes data stand out, such as your hit points in score and info.
header is used when showing data tables.
tell is used for directed communication: the ask, tell, and whisper commands.
shout is used when the Ainur proclaim something.

To see the current colour setting for one of the fields, use:

  > change colour <field>

where <field> is one of the above. To actually change it, use:

  > change colour <field> <attribute>

See help ansi codes, help 8-bit colours, and help 24-bit colours to see how different colour settings look on your client.

Attributes

The <attribute> may be one of none (no colour), default (the MUME built-in standard colour) or monochrome (the MUME built-in standard monochrome settings).

You can also specify your own colour setting. Then the <attribute> consists of zero or more of blink, bold, faint, inverse, italic, and uppercase, optionally followed by a colour, optionally followed by the keyword on and a background colour.

Standard Colours

The standard colours available are:

black	red	green	yellow	blue	magenta	cyan	white
Black	Red	Green	Yellow	Blue	Magenta	Cyan	White

If you write the colour starting with a capital letter (Black, Blue, etc.) you get a high intensity version of the colour.

256-colour Terminals

Some terminals support 256 different (8-bit) colours. See

help
256 colours

to check if your terminal does. That help page also shows the names of the colours. They are prefixed by &, so for example &044 should be turquoise.

Use &rgb where each of r, g, and b is a value between 0 (no colour) and 5 (max).

Also, 24 shades of grey are supported. Use &greyn where n is 0-100.

24-bit RGB Terminals

Some terminals support full 24-bit RGB colours. See help 24-bit colour to check if your terminal does. Such colours are specified as #rrggbb where each of rr, gg, and bb is a two-digit hexadecimal number in 00-ff.

Underline Styles

Some (but only a few) terminals support specifying different underline styles and colours. Use one of the following to specify a specific style:

`ul:off`	(default) disables underline
`ul:inherit`	does not change the underline setting
`ul:single`	single line (same as `underline`)
`ul:double`	double lines
`ul:curly`	curly or wavy line
`ul:dotted`	dotted line
`ul:dashed`	dashed line

To specify an underline colour, prefix the underline style with a colour. For example, to specify that header should have a red and curly underline:

  > cha col header red ul:curly

Examples

> `cha col look bold green`	make room names appear in bold green
> `cha col narr underline`	make narrates appear underlined
> `cha col song default`	make songs appear in the default colour (yellow)
> `cha col hit Green on red`	make hits show in high intensity green on a red background
> `cha col magic #40e0d0`	make magic appear turquoise

The "normal" field

The normal field is mostly useful for people with bad terminal programs that don't reset colours properly. Setting the colour to anything but none will make all text from the game be forced into a certain colour. So if you have problem with colours "bleeding" into places where they don't belong, try

cha col
norm white on black

(or whatever setting you prefer).

Colour groups

You can also set groups of fields to one of the none, default or monochrome settings using:

  > cha col <group> none|default|monochrome

where <group> can be one of the following:

`all`	all the fields
`communications`	the `pray`, `say`, `shout`, `song`, `tell`, and `yell` fields
`fights`	the `damage` and `hit` fields
`zones`	the `zone-xxx` fields, used by the `map` command

For example:

> `cha col all default`	set all colours to the default values
> `cha col fight none`	turn off colours in fights
> `cha col comm mono`	make communications appear in monochrome

Special commands

You can also toggle the use of colours on and off, overriding the settings above. This is done with change colour on and

change colour
off

You can change multiple fields by separating them by commas. For example:

  > cha col all default, say bold white on red, zones none

Use change colour show to show all your current setting as a single command that can be used to go back to these settings at a later time, or for a different character.

Use account import <player> colour to copy colour settings from other characters in your account.