Custom colored names made at character creation no longer show up in-world

[carlost died]

When using & color codes for coloring a name, the correctly colored name only shows up in the modern UI, not when hovering over yourself, not in the message log or any other place. It felt intended based on how it was able to be done just from character creation, and it was a feature that I’ve used for many unique names in the past few years, but it seems it wasn’t.

It seems this change occurred because of a July 8 Feature Friday where display.txt was altered.

[Corey Frang]

The & and ^ characters were always meant to be escaped in these input boxes, and the choice is between supporting the older harder to handle color format, and letting names like “Punch & Pie” work. The supported color format for text inputs now is the {{color|text}} format – something like this should work for you:

{{m-M-y-M-m-M-m sequence|mutated}} {{C-G-g-G-C-c-B-b-B-c-C-y-C-y sequence|Seymour Skinner}}

More documentation on https://wiki.cavesofqud.com/wiki/Modding:Colors_%26_Object_Rendering#Color_Markup_Language

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[carlost died]

thanks for clarifying. i didn’t read that far into that page because the old way just worked.