Using Color

Color is a big part of making things pop in Untold Dawn, but it can be tricky for people to get used to.

Basic Color Code Syntax

Untold Dawn uses an RGB color system, letting you specify basically any kind of color you want!

The general syntax is:

|{RRR,GGG,BBB}words to color here|n

Where R, G, and B are numbers between 0 and 255. 0, 0, 0 is true black; 255, 255, 255 is true white.

There are 14 "base" color codes hard-wired into the system as single letter codes - for example, |w. These fourteen colors represent bright and dark variants of 7 shades. See https://imgchest.com/p/agyvrwm3978 for a visual representation, or the chart below for their codes:

Color	Bright	Dark	Bright RGB	Dark RGB
White	W	w	{255,255,255}	{192,192,192}
Red	R	r	{255,0,0}	{128,0,0}
Yellow	Y	y	{255,255,255}	{128,128,0}
Green	G	g	{0,255,0}	{0,128,0}
Cyan	C	c	{0,255,255}	{0,128,128}
Blue	B	b	{0,0,255}	{0,0,128}
Magenta	M	m	{255,0,255}	{128,0,128}

You're not limited to these colors, of course - you can use any color in the whole RGB spectrum your heart might desire!

Making Fancy Colors

Single colors are fun, but you can do some really creative things once you start getting into gradients. While you can do them manually, \here are a few tools you can use to make them easier, suggested or created by our awesome players:

Caors' Gradient Maker - This awesome utility allows you to create a gradient between up to 5 shades across any text you put in, with a convenient click-drag interface. You can also use it to preview how colors might look in the game by pasting color codes into the Output window. (Thanks, Caors!) Here's an example gradient I put together with the tool:https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/4jdcvexr3z4.png

https://redketchup.io/color-picker - Allows you to upload any image (in most any format too) and use a dropper to to select any color in that image. It'll then show you the color in a swatch and give you the RGB values of the color as well as the HEX values. This is a great way to represent specific shades in your gradients. (Link provided courtesy of Allie!)

And, of course, ChatGPT can be used to generate gradients as well. Here's a prompt I used that worked well to teach chatGPT Untold Dawn's formatting. Feel free to copy it and try it yourself, then play around with what kind of colors it can put together for you!

I would like you to generate color gradients using RGB color codes applied over text that I give you. Each color code should begin with a |, then contain the RGB code in three sections separated by commas and surrounded by { and }. After the last }, the letters or words to be colored will follow, and then |n will end the color. For example, if I wanted to write the word HELLO in bright red followed by the word WORLD in bright green, I would write |{255,0,0}HELLO|n |{0,255,0}WORLD|n. To show me that you understand, can you generate the word HELLO in bright cyan and the word WORLD in bright orange?