Color Codes

What are they?

Color codes are used to add color to text. They were introduced in Quake III Arena and are available in most Q3 engine based games, including Enemy Territory. They can be used with most text that gets displayed ingame, including player names, chat or notices.

Usage: a dash character (^) followed by another character. Each character produces a different colour.
Example: ^1red ^2green ^4blue
Produces: red green blue

Codes list

The images below depicts the colours the characters produce. Notice that some letters and digits produce the same colour.

http://velocity.lunarpages.com/images/colors.jpg
http://etpro.poohunter.de/etcolors.jpg The blue one in the middle which is crumpled is supposed to be the > sign.

Code Filtering

Here is a little php script that can be used to parse colorcodes and return the HTML formatted, colored string:

// ©2003 Deus@pooHunter.de
// This script uses the original RGB-values that were used in RtCW:OSP which I received directly from rhea.
// AFAIK these RGB values did not change in ET/ETPro 
function parse_gamecolors($string)
{
	$string = ereg_replace("(\^)?$", "^", $string);
	$string = ereg_replace("\^\^", "&#94^", $string);
	$string = ereg_replace("(\^)?$", "", $string);
	$string = ereg_replace("\^<", "^|", $string);
	$string = ereg_replace("\<", "<", $string);
	$string = ereg_replace("\^>", "^^", $string);
	$string = ereg_replace("\>", ">", $string);
	$string = ereg_replace("\^\^", "^>", $string);
	$string = "<font color=\"#FFFFFF\">".$string."</font>";

	$color_def = array
	(
		0  => "#000000",	1  => "#FF0000",	2  => "#00FF00",	3  => "#FFFF00",
		4  => "#0000FF",	5  => "#00FFFF",	6  => "#FF00FF",	7  => "#FFFFFF",
		8  => "#FF7F00",	9  => "#7F7F7F",	10 => "#BFBFBF",	11 => "#007F00",
		12 => "#7FFF00",	13 => "#00007F",	14 => "#7F0000",	15 => "#7F4000",
		16 => "#FF9933",	17 => "#007F7F",	18 => "#7F007F",	19 => "#007F7F",
		20 => "#7F00FF",	21 => "#3399CC",	22 => "#CCFFCC",	23 => "#006633",
		24 => "#FF0033",	25 => "#B21919",	26 => "#993300",	27 => "#CC9933",
		28 => "#999933",	29 => "#FFFFBF",	30 => "#FFFF7F"
	);

	$color_chardef = array
	(
		"#000000"	=> array (	0 => "0",	1 => "P",	2 => "p"	),
		"#FF0000"	=> array (	0 => "1",	1 => "Q",	2 => "q"	),
		"#00FF00"	=> array (	0 => "2",	1 => "R",	2 => "r"	),
		"#FFFF00"	=> array (	0 => "3",	1 => "S",	2 => "s"	),
		"#0000FF"	=> array (	0 => "4",	1 => "T",	2 => "t"	),
		"#00FFFF"	=> array (	0 => "5",	1 => "U",	2 => "u"	),
		"#FF00FF"	=> array (	0 => "6",	1 => "V",	2 => "v"	),
		"#FFFFFF"	=> array (	0 => "7",	1 => "W",	2 => "w"	),
		"#FF7F00"	=> array (	0 => "8",	1 => "X",	2 => "x"	),
		"#7F7F7F"	=> array (	0 => "9",	1 => "Y",	2 => "y"	),
		"#BFBFBF"	=> array (	0 => ":",	1 => "Z",	2 => "z",
						3 => ";",	4 => "[",	5 => "{"	),
		"#007F00"	=> array (	0 => "<",	1 => "\\",	2 => "|"	),
		"#7FFF00"	=> array (	0 => "=",	1 => "]",	2 => "}"	),
		"#00007F"	=> array (	0 => ">"					),
		"#7F0000"	=> array (	0 => "?"					),
		"#7F4000"	=> array (	0 => "@",	1 => "`"			),
		"#FF9933"	=> array (	0 => "A",	1 => "a",	2 => "!"	),
		"#007F7F"	=> array (	0 => "B",	1 => "b"			),
		"#7F007F"	=> array (	0 => "C",	1 => "c",	2 => "#"	),
		"#007F7F"	=> array (	0 => "D",	1 => "d",	2 => "$"	),
		"#7F00FF"	=> array (	0 => "E",	1 => "e",	2 => "%"	),
		"#3399CC"	=> array (	0 => "F",	1 => "f",	2 => "&"	),
		"#CCFFCC"	=> array (	0 => "G",	1 => "g",	2 => "'"	),
		"#006633"	=> array (	0 => "H",	1 => "h",	2 => "("	),
		"#FF0033"	=> array (	0 => "I",	1 => "i",	2 => ")"	),
		"#B21919"	=> array (	0 => "J",	1 => "j"			),
		"#993300"	=> array (	0 => "K",	1 => "k",	2 => "+"	),
		"#CC9933"	=> array (	0 => "L",	1 => "l",	2 => ","	),
		"#999933"	=> array (	0 => "M",	1 => "m",	2 => "-"	),
		"#FFFFBF"	=> array (	0 => "N",	1 => "n",	2 => "."	),
		"#FFFF7F"	=> array (	0 => "O",	1 => "o",	2 => "/"	)
	);
		
	for ($cd1 = 0; $cd1 < 31; $cd1++)
	{
		for ($cd2 = 0; $cd2 < count($color_chardef[$color_def[$cd1]]); $cd2++)
		{
			$string = str_replace("^". $color_chardef[$color_def[$cd1]][$cd2], "</FONT><FONT COLOR=\"" . $color_def[$cd1] . "\">", $string);
		}
	}
	return $string;
}