Colour management

Colour Palette

To understand how the program handles colours, it is necessary to discuss the concept of a colour "palette". MUSHclient recognises 8 ANSI "normal" colours (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white), and the same 8 colours in "bold". The codes to change colours may be sent by a particular MUD if the appropriate function calls are made by a room designer. The normal colour is white text on a black background.

However, the actual colours that are displayed depend on the colour palette for a particular world. For example "black" might actually display as grey, and "white" might actually display as green.

Changing colours

To change colours, use the "ANSI Colour" configuration dialog. You can right-mouse-click to copy colours from one colour swatch to another. Click on the colour swatches to change the colour.

Custom colours

Triggers and scripts can also use custom colours, which are a further 16 colours (pairs of foreground/background colours) which are configurable in the "Custom Colour" configuration dialog.

RGB colours

Triggers and scripts can also use the full RGB colour gamut - which is 256 (red) X 256 (green) X 256 (blue) colour combinations (a total of 16,777,216 possible colours). This allows for a wide range of colour presentation. In a trigger select the "other..." item from the colour combo-box. In scripts you can use things like world.ColourNote to send messages to the window in any colour.

Saving colours

Colours from one world can be saved to a "colour file" and then loaded into another world, thus keeping them all to the same colour scheme.

Mapping colours

From version 3.54 onwards you can also "map" one colour to another. This is provided to allow you to customise MXP colours which do not otherwise have a mechanism for being displayed differently. See the MapColour function for more details. This allows you to have a "last moment" mapping of a colour (that you don't like) to a different colour (that you prefer).