Server Console Appearance

Afaik no one's bothered to put this up, so here we go!...

I hate not being able to see what's going on while using the server console (rcon). Therefore, I played around with my rcon console settings to get it the way I like it.

The file you will need to edit is found in Base/Scripts/autoconfig.gm

You will need to edit items from line 20 up to line 65.

Here is the code that you'll want to edit, with my personal changes added (I've bolded the variables that you might want to edit)

Spoiler

global n_graph = 1; // Shows the network activity graph.
global n_log = 0; // Saves the session network data to a file.
global n_filechunk = 8192; // Max amount of file sent every packet (in bytes). (I haven't bothered with the next few things since they didn't really add anything for me, if they had a noticeable effect for you post so we can all know what they do)
global v_bpp = 32; // Requires v_restart to take effect.
global v_driver = 5; // Rendering driver (0 - null, 1 - software, 2 - software+, 5 - ogl).
global v_vsync = 0; // Vertical synchronization of video with monitor.
global v_showfps = 1; // Show the current FPS on screen.
global v_showminimap = 1; // Show minimap or not. Might solve performance issues. (as it says, might solve performance issues. if you have an old pc, consider setting this off [0])
global g_playerlistkey = 9; // The key used for showing the players list. [TAB]
global g_screenshotkey = 115; // The key used for taking screenshots. [F4]
global g_reportbugkey = 116; // The key used for sending screen bug reports. [F5]
global g_tutorialkey = 112; // The key used for showing help. [F1]
global v_postprocess = 0; // Use fullscreen post processing effects.
global v_fastrender = 0; // Degrades visual quality for speed
global v_smoothsprites = 0; // Uses a filter to smoothen sprite pixels
global v_smoothmap = 0; // Uses a filter to smoothen map pixels
global v_screenshotquality = 99; // screenshotquality 92
global v_drawhud = 1; // v_drawhud 1 (don't make this = 0, you'll think you broke KAG)
global g_smallhud = 0; // Uses smaller HUD scaling.
global g_fixedcamera = 1; // Uses a fixed camera on player. Disabling this makes the camera Soldat-like.
global c_dimension_x = 0.6; // Width of console in percents of screen.
global c_dimension_y = 0.3; // Height of console in percents of screen. (this gets overwritten to 0.9 once you hit [ENTER], but it's still worth keeping at a smaller value if all you do is read rcon and use the admin menu for kicks / bans. It is a bit annoying though.)
global c_bgshow = 1; // Draws background of console. (you might like this set = 0 if you don't want a background [for a similar effect you could set global c_bgcolor_a = 0, but I prefer to set this one = 0])
global c_fontfile = `GUI/Fonts/commodore.png`; // Sets the font file of the console. (unless you have built a completely custom png font file, I wouldn't bother changing this)
global c_bgcolor_a = 160; // (for the colors, just use a paint application to figure out the argb values you might like, my suggestion is to use a dark gray for the background with transparency and a opaque text color that will be easily visible over the sky [light blue] and caves / darkness [black])
global c_bgcolor_r = 40; //
global c_bgcolor_g = 40; //
global c_bgcolor_b = 40; //
global c_fontcolor_a = 255; //
global c_fontcolor_r = 255; //
global c_fontcolor_g = 255; //
global c_fontcolor_b = 235; //
global c_linespacing = 1; // Space between lines in console.
global c_indent = 1; // Left indentation of messages in console.
global c_key = 36; // The key for opening and closing the console. [HOME]
global c_prompt = ``; // Sets the command prompt text. (pointless, but you can edit it anyway. basically it's text that's displayed next to the > in the console)
global c_history_size = 20; // Number of console commands stored in history.
global c_halign = 1; // Horizontal alignment of console 0-left, 1-center, 2-right.
global c_valign = 1; // Vertical alignment of console 0-top, 1-middle, 2-bottom.
global cc_linespacing = 1; // Space between lines in console. (from now on these are chat console [cc] commands)
global cc_indent = 8; // Left indentation of messages in console.
global cc_key = 84; // The key for opening and closing the chat. [T]
global cc_key_team = 89; // The key for opening and closing the chat in team mode. [Y]
global cc_history_size = 25; // Number of console commands stored in history.
global cc_valign = 0; // Vertical alignment of console 0-top, 1-middle, 2-bottom.
global cc_killfeed = 1; // Show kill feed in chat console? (this spams up the chat quite a bit, but it can be useful, especially for recording clan matches)

Here are some text colors that I like the best. They are in argb order (alpha, red, green, blue).

White: 255 255 255 255 or (off-white) 255 255 255 235

Red: 255 200 40 0 or 255 255 0 0

Yellow: 255 210 220 0 or 255 255 255 0

Green: 255 50 180 0 or 255 0 255 0

Blue: 255 0 0 255

Pink: 255 230 0 200

 

Good job, I think it is worth a sticky.

 

Yeah I just used the default comments. Anything with a cc in the name refers to the chat console.