SweeTs Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 (edited) Contents Introduction Ideas of using chat colouring Before start Everything you should know about colours in L2 client Downloading program How to? Setting up 'on-screen' messagess End result Introduction Chat window is basic way to communicate between players in game. In that window player can also see messagess from server, like damage, infos about succeded, or failed actions, about received or lost buffs, picked up items and so on.In this simple tutorial, will be explained step by step, how to change those long, boring, machine-talking messages to form we want to.To emphasize the higher-priority messages from spam, all messages what reach the player can be filtered and colored. In the game, we have 5 tabs, and the possibility of including additional windows to help 'embrace' all received messages. On each tab you can configure filters that determine what type of message should be displayed on which card. This allows keeping messages from the clan away from the proposed trading announcements. Image 1. Default chat window While gaining experience, or during a fight with another player, we are not always able to read everything that appears in the chat window. Therefore, we highlight the important messages in a different color than the others, and others simply turn off. Image 2. Default, one-coloured announcements If you ever played with archer, for sure you have noticed this one of the most annoying messages - information about loading the arrow... Image 3. Unwanted message If you are playing with a mage character, you would probably know if thrown curse, poison, or spell was succeed, it would be much easier to play if we somehow highlight those messagess. Ideas of using chat colouring Most of the cases, which we will deal with later in this article have already been mentioned in the introduction ...So recalling, editing the SystemMsg-e.dat we can: get rid of unwanted messages highlight received messages by different colors change the content of automatic messages sent from the server add sound to a message view important messages on the screen Before start Before editing game files, it is highly recommended to backup all the file you intend to edit, or even better whole directory system!While working with files, the game should be closed!To file work correctly, you should preserve its structure. Carefully insert the values into the appropriate columns, be careful not to lose the character starting / ending a message, and do not leave empty values.Message's bodys what we will edit are in the message column. Every message's body begins with the characters 'a,' and ends with '\ 0', it must be remembered and respected.Message's colors can be freely changed at their discretion.Note, however, that color is stored as RGBA (hexadecimal with an additional parameter alpha) in reverse order (see next section). Everything you should know about colours in L2 client Table 1. Most commonly used color codes rgba[0] | rgba[1] | rgba[2] | rgba[3] blue | green | red | alpha 79 9B B0 FF grey 00 BE FF FF yellow F1 61 00 FF blue 00 38 FF FF orange 19 D5 4A FF green 48 15 FF FF red FF E1 78 FF cyaneous A7 28 F4 FF pink Using Internet sources, or graphic programs like GIMP, we can take colors we want to, and use them easily in game client as we want to, where we need to.Use the below example to convert all your favourite colours saved in hexadecimal code to RGBA used in L2 client:To replace the yellow written in hexadecimal code #FFFF00 for usable by L2 client: Divide code for 3 pieces, with every piece for 2 signs. Like that: FF | FF | 00 Reverse pieces order: 00 | FF | FF Add Alpha parameter ('FF') at the end of code: 00 FF FF FF Received color code pieces insert in the appropriate columns in the file Downloading program L2 File Editor is a program what we are looking for. It is pretty popular so shouldn't be many problems finding it. Typing its name in google searcher should give us some download links.Otherwise visit this topic by iAndre for various versions. How to? Before editing the file, we need to write down the old message's content we intend to change on the card - it will be easier to find them later in the file. Here we go!1. Run L2 File Editor program on your computer.2. From the left vertical menu, choose the first option 3. In the new window look for the game directory, go to the system directory, and select file SystemMsg-e.dat, and then open it: Image 4. Click to enlarge 4. After the file loads in program, it should look like this: Image 5. Click to enlarge 5. Now lets try some easy stuff for the begining. Assume we want replace the content and color of the welcoming message: Original message in the client, is “Welcome to the World of Lineage II”,so from the left menu, choose option In the window type in the keywords in your original message, eg „Welcome to” – this will highlight the phrase on the line with ID equal to 34 (You can see that on previous screen, last line in editor). Lets change original message to something else like:„Ignorance is the mother of fear.” Using the previous guidelines change the default color to green (# 4a d5 19):79 | 9B | B0 | FF – columns content in file before change19 | d5 | 4a | FF – switching old values with this 6. Substitute in the appropriate places in the file: Image 6. Click to enlarge 7. Now we can test if everything went just as planned. Click button and wait until the file is closed - its content should automatically disappear from program's window.Remember : Do not save the file under a different name, but overwrite the changes to the file you opened. Otherwise, the game client will not turn on with an alert saying that our system has the edited files. Image 7. First effect Other examplesDalbor, is our character nick. Lundy, is our friend, or somebody on our ‘target’.Task: Change the color of the message and the message of injuries inflicted.Original message Dalbor has given Lundy damage of 100.Suggestion You hit Lundy for 100.File content a,$c1 has given $c2 damage of $s3.\0New content a,You hit $c2 for $c3.\0Old color 79 9B B0 FFnew color 19 d5 4a FFTask: Change the color of the message and message received injuries.Original message Dalbor has received damage of 100 from Lundy.Suggestion Lundy hit you for 100.File content a,$c1 has received damage of $s3 from $c2.\0New content a,$c2 hit you for $s3.\0Old color 79 9B B0 FFnew color 48 15 ff ffTask: Get rid of nock an arrow message.Original message You carefully nock an arrow.Suggestion Rid of this messageFile content a,You carefully nock an arrow.\0New content a,\0Old color 79 9B B0 FFnew color leave it, no matter what it isTask: Change the color of the message which is to cast a spell failure.Original message Lundy has resisted your Power Break.Suggestion Lundy has resisted your Power Break.File content a,$c1 has resisted your $s2.\0New content change color onlyOld color 79 9B B0 FFnew color 48 15 ff ffTask: Spoil succeded message color.Original message The Spoil condition has been activated.Suggestion The Spoil condition has been activated.File content a,The Spoil condition has been activated.\0New content change color onlyOld color 79 9B B0 FFnew color ff e1 78 FFTask: Join/Leave party messagesOriginal message Lindy is invited to the party. Lindy has left the party.File content a,$c1 is invited to the party.\0 a,$c1 has left the party.\0Old color 79 9B B0 FFnew color B BE FF FF Examples of other messages that should stand out, or change: Dalbor’s attack went astray. You have avoided $c1's attack. You have missed. Critical hit! You have joined $s1's party. You have run out of arrows. Setting up 'on-screen' messages Basicly 'on-screen' means that the message appears not only in chat window but in can shows up in one of eight possible positions on screen. It can be very helpful in highlighting the most important message types. Like when your skill didn't worked, or mob has been spoiled. Image 8. Click to enlarge To make this work we have to set up few things. If you didn't changed color, on screen it will be probably white.First thing we have to do is insert value '1' in column UNK_1[3]. This will enable this message on screen.Next thing to do is setup content of message on screen (On screen message can be different then message in chat window). Easiest way is to copy message column content, or write something different, anyways column sub_msg is for setting on-screen message content. Other then that, look on Image 8, and think where you want to place it. After that insert a number ( 1 - 8 ) in column UNK_1[0].And now last thing we have to setup is number of seconds we want to message stay on screen, its column UNK_1[2]. Image 9. Click to enlarge End result Credits: Ziomek Pro Edited April 5, 2015 by SweeTs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arturo134 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 use l2lige, is more easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
’Insider Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 use l2lige, is more easy dis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeTs Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 Ofc, L2Lige will do everything for you, basically. Still, some explanations/tips are welcome :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raF Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 If all the guides were like this, everybody would be a pro dev. Nice job SweeTs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillverShadow Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 well explained. Thumbs up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lollero Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I'm using my systemmsg on a server, but in oly it doesn't show on screen the message of in how many seconds the game will end. Probably it's blocked by the server. Can I do something? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeTs Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 Nop. The counter is from server side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lollero Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Even if in the chat the message "The game will end in" is displayed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeTs Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) Even if in the chat the message "The game will end in" is displayed? Yes, it comes from server, so there is nothing you can rly do. Edited October 14, 2015 by SweeTs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackFriday Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 is there an editor for Infinite Odyssey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulchro Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Can i use l2lige on naia server? Or fileedit. I tried but when i press save and encrypt but nothing. If i open the file again theres no changes in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Gaiden Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Is there anywhere we can download l2lige without getting viruses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeTs Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Old school file edit ftw :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Gaiden Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 i guess that will be the case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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