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Hey folks, I found this cool trick where you can change your text and add built-in icons to your text in the D3 beta. Here's how:

For different colors, you can do standard colors such as

{c_red}This is my red text{/c}
{c_blue}This is my blue text{/c}
{c_green}This is my green text{/c}

You can also use hex:

{c:FF000000}This is my black text{/c}
{c:FFFF8C00}This is my orange text{/c}





You can also use the colors of the item types and other text:

{c_magic}text{/c_magic}
{c_inferior}text{/c_inferior}
{c_rare}text{/c_rare}
{c_epic}text{/c_epic}
{c_legendary}text{/c_legendary}
{c_questlog}text{/c_questlog}
{c_whisper}text{/c_whisper}
{c_bonus}text{/c_bonus}


There are also some icon you can display:

{icon:lmb}
{icon:rmb}
{icon:bullet}
{icon:audio}
{icon:platinum}
{icon:gold}




Additionally, you can chat with a different or smaller font size:

{f_alpha_tiny}This is smaller text{/f_alpha_tiny}

Cool, thanks!

See, Cherub, this is why you're my favorite uhh... well that and the Kain avatar, y'know... aaaaand the Tribes sig... *cough* no homo <3

Had no idea you could do this.. mind = blown.

Nice find, CherubDown!

Ooh this is nice, are there other commands?

hex code color commands for chat just what I always wanted.

Wonder if it'll get shut down soon? I thought we weren't allowed better social features lol.

Now to just add this for names (within pre-defined single-colour limits!).

I can't wait to do this in retail with my friends and totally deny telling them how to do it.

Quote from akainu

hex code color commands for chat just what I always wanted.

^this if it's half as sarcastic as I took it.

Cool little trick, I assume they're going to have chat options/color pannel to choose from ultimately.

Quote from Kodachii

Cool little trick, I assume they're going to have chat options/color pannel to choose from ultimately.

Probably not. The same type of feature exists in WoW and the only way to get it is to manually enter in the color strings or use a mod like Prat. This will probably be no different, they tend to leave these type of features hidden.

Hey guys, that was my blog post and just saw it was linked to from here - I've been a lurker for ages, so figured I'd finally create an account and reply

Quote from Molster

Oddly enough, I think this might have been found due to the MoP Beta

I actually found it some time back, and posted in a paid-for-access D3-gold-making forum (wont link it, but I think some of you are members on it already) and thought I'd release it publicly before someone else did, taking credit for it

At the time I was looking in to whether the Demon Hunter's Ferret Companion rune was still going to make it in to the game, and noticed that the skill texts used the {c_green} (or whatever it was) to add emphasis to the % of something to happen, or damage that would be done. I did some searching and found a whole bunch of "{c_" strings in memory, being used in different places, and decided to just try it in chat, and it worked (I'm not lucky enough to have MoP beta access)

I can't remember exactly how I found the icons, I think it had to do with one of the tutorial tooltips that used color as well as the mouse icons, from there I just searched for "{icon:" and found the others. I'm most interested in that "Platinum" one though!

Quote from Ocean

Ooh this is nice, are there other commands?

There are some "slash commands" for chat (all available from /? I believe) :

/send
/t
/tell
/w
/whisper
/r
/p
/party
/r
/reply
/shout

And some "emotes" - which are bound to your numpad by default:

/bye
/die
/follow
/give
/go
/help
/run
/sorry
/thanks
/wait

6-char hex codes don't work - Meh :<

Got a list with 8-char ones?

Been using {c_yellow} a lot in games If you're not using anything else, you don't need to end the color tag.

Quote from HypnZA

Hey guys, that was my blog post and just saw it was linked to from here - I've been a lurker for ages, so figured I'd finally create an account and reply

Really good find, mate. It's the little stuff like this that always fascinates me.