July 24th, 2017
(Nathvaan)
- Ability to toggle on and off emphasis with 'change color emphasize'.
- Added account data to store preference of how you want to see the emphasized text.
- Text surrounded by '/' can now display as italics.
- Text surrounded by '*' can now display as bold.
- Text surrounded by '_' can now display as underlined.
- Text (/, *, _) will display as typed for characters with emphasis disabled.
- Text can be stacked with multiple symbols allowing for italics, bolded and underlined emphasized text.
- Symbol stack order doesn't matter, though if you don't 'close' the emphasis it will leave the rest of the line emphasized. Eg, /_*Bolded underlined and italics/*_ would work fine. While _underline whole line would underline the entire line.
- This emphasis includes all text that can also be colored but does not include targets PCs/NPCs/Objects.
-- Example: 'emote looks around at /everything/.' would have everyuthing in italics while 'emote looks down at _~pants_.' would not work at all. Though 'emote Looking _dejected_, @ looks at the stain on ~pants.' would underline dejected.
-- Note: In testing not all MUD clients implement all these ASCII escape codes, see note below.
- When setting 'change color default' emphasize is enabled but can be toffled off with 'change color emphasize off'.
- Current characters will likely need to enable this feature with 'change color emphasize on'.
- Items that bolded before including combat now once emphasizes as before if you have opted to enable 'change color emphasize' enabled.
- Allows for 'change color emphasize on|off|bold|italics|underline' to determine how you want these items emphasized.
-- Note: this is the same feature where the sdesc/you/your etc. were bolded prior to the color changes being implemented.
- Changes to the stabled mount stamina/health regen. Now it calculates how many minutes of the 30 minutes (3 IC hours) have elapsed and give the appropriate amount of stamina/health to the mount.
- Minor bug fix to some specific circumstances for skill search.
Note: During testing some older versions of clients (mushclient etc) weren't 100% compatible with these changes. It is suggested if you find any oddities with bold, italics or underline not displaying as you expect please start by upgrading to the latest version of your client.
Note about ANSI Color bold: The way that bolding works is by flagging the 'bright' version of the color. This only works on the base primary colors (0-7). To see these colors type 'change color' and look at the first few entries. 0-7 are the primary colors while 8-15 are the bright versions. If you want combat bold highlighting to work you will need to use these primary colors as foreground colors. Italics and underline work with all colors.
UPDATE:
7/24/2017: Major bug with rent/offer mounts at stables fixed. There may still be lingering issues. If you mount is out of the stables and it has iow health/stamina for the time being, please wish up and let us know.
7/25/2017: Patching in a bug where combat text is a little garbled for accounts that have VT100/ANSI disabled. This should be live around 7/25/2017 at 6 AM server time.
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