ChatColors

Lets players choose a color for their name in chat. Only red, blue, green, and yellow are available.

The plugin is automatically disabled on maps that use teams, or if another script or admin changes the classification of players to one of the colored team values (16-19).

Installation

1. Download the script and save it to scripts/plugins/ChatColors.as
2. Add this to the top of default_plugins.txt

    "plugin"
    {
        "name" "ChatColors"
        "script" "ChatColors"
    }

It's important that this be the first plugin in the list. Otherwise, chat names will not be colored when another plugin handles a chat command. Note that reloading the plugin with as_reloadplugin chatcolors, it will be sent to the bottom of the list. So, always use as_reloadplugins when editing this plugin.

Integration with other plugins

Some plugins manipulate player chats by reprinting them with the g_PlayerFuncs.SayTextAll function. The problem with that is the player name color is lost, and so the name color matches the chat text. If you need to manipulate a player's chat messsage, then use this function instead.

void player_say(CBaseEntity@ plr, string msg)
{
    NetworkMessage m(MSG_ALL, NetworkMessages::NetworkMessageType(74), null);
        m.WriteByte(plr.entindex());
        m.WriteByte(2); // tell the client to color the player name according to team
        m.WriteString("" + plr.pev.netname + ": " + msg);
    m.End();
}