Help with syntax

I'm using Nick's code from here http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=8847 and modifying it for my own.. He's got lines like this in his code..

k = { range = "+32 to +41", colour = "darkmagenta", },

but the colors I want to use are in RGB format, can I change it to this?

k = { range = "+32 to +41", colour = 255,255,255 },



-- also --

I want to change the message the mud gives me completely, from:
MobName would crush you like a bug!
to:
MobName is 21 - 32 levels higher then you.
with a specific color, in this case, "255,192,0".

It won't let me post all the code, says this message is too long.

This is a work in progress.. but I don't know where to find the info I need. The Lua site to too much information, and if it's here I can't find it.

you want to use something like (this example is blue)

where the hexadecimal value (indicated by the leading 0x) is in this case 255 BLUE (FF), 0 GREEN (00), 0 RED (00) in that order. So whatever color values you want between 0 and 255, convert those numbers to hex and then lump them together in BGR order.

that's easy enough, there are many converters on the web to change the RGB to hexadecimal. (for that matter, I could have found a converter for the names..hmm)

how about subbing my text for the mud output?

substitution is typically done by omitting from output and then doing a colournote

The simplest change is to use the "HTML" colours which can be used where colour names are used. For example:



Where in this case A1 is the red component, B2 is the green component and FF is the blue component. The "#" is what distinguishes it from a name lookup.

If you want to see all the inbuilt colour names and what their codes are (apart from using the colour picker), type this in the scripting Immediate window:



That also shows the associated colour in the output window.