Star Wars Galaxies: Tuesday Tips 11/2 Adding Color to Your SWG Bio

Thunderheart posted this week's tip about adding color to your bio:

Adding color to your SWG Bio

Here is a great tip not only for adding color to your SWG biography, but also enable your ability to have "cut-and-paste" in-game for use with your notepad and other sorts of things.

To add color to your SWG bio, the first thing you have to do is enable your cut-n-paste commands. The second thing you have to do is add the HTML color tag to your bio outside of the game and then paste the whole thing in your Character Sheet. Here's the step-by-step:

1. Enable your Cut-N-Paste Commands

Press CTRL-O to bring up your Options window
Press the "Controls" button in the Option window
Press the "Keymap" button on the Controls
Click the Tab that says "Chat"
Under the chat tab, there are three commands that you will want to bind:
Chat Edit Copy

Chat Edit Cut

Chat Edit Paste

· One at a time:

o Select the item in the list by clicking on it with your mouse

o Click the "Rebind" button

o Press the keys you want to use to assign to the button. A good selection to use for these commands is:

§ Chat Edit Copy: CTRL+SHIFT+C

§ Chat Edit Cut: CTRL+SHIFT+X

§ Chat Edit Paste: CTRL+SHIFT+V

o Click "Ok"

o Click "Apply"

Now you are done with the first part. What you have done is enable your cut-n-paste commands. Next is actually changing your bio.

2. Changing the color in your SWG Bio:

· Open up your Character Sheet Bio by Pressing "CTRL-P"

· Next, click on the "Character" Tab.

· Select your bio text with the mouse and press CTRL+SHIFT+C (This puts the text on your windows clipboard).

· Once you have done that, press ALT-TAB and minimize your game.

· Load up a text editing program such as Notepad, Wordpad or Text Pad.

· To change the colors of the text, use the following command:

#FF1234This is my bio text....

Reference any HTML color list to select from a wide variety of colors.

· Once your have chosen a color and completed your SWG bio in the text editor, you need to send it to your clipboard. Press CTRL-A (to select all the text) and then CTRL-C to copy the text to the clipboard.

· Press ALT-Tab and open up your game window.

· Put the mouse in your character sheet bio window (make sure you see the cursor)

· Click CTRL+SHIFT+V (or whatever you assigned as your Chat Edit Paste command

Then click "Done" to save the data. Type CTRL+1 to select your character and type /examine to view your own bio in all of the colors you wanted.

VOILA! A bio with color.

I'm going to try this one out!! I've tried changing my font colors before in my bio with no luck. So maybe with these instructions I will be able to finally figure it out!!