Colors List

From SA-MP Wiki

Colors are everywhere in SA:MP - vehicles, player names and blips, textdraw, gametext and since 0.3c in chat, 3D texts and dialogs (as colour embedding)! Below you can find information about these different things.

Contents 1 GameText 1.1 Example 2 Chat text and player color 2.1 Alpha values (transparency) 2.2 Convert string to value with pawn 2.3 Color choosers 3 Car colors 4 Other Car Colors 4.1 Chat/dialog embedding 4.2 Example 4.3 Another example

GameText

For GameText colors you can use special tags to set the following text to a specific color.

~r~    red
~g~    green
~b~    blue
~w~    white
~y~    yellow
~p~    purple
~l~    black
~n~    new line
~h~    lighter color

Example

~w~Hello this is ~b~blue ~w~and this is ~r~red

Chat text and player color

A chattext or player color looks like this 0xRRGGBBAA The RR is the red part of the color, the GG the green and the BB the blue. AA is the alphavalue. If you use FF there it will be displayed without transparency and if you put it to 00 it will be invisible.

For the Hex code for these colors, go to the Hex colors page.

Alpha values (transparency)

0xRRGGBB00	0xRRGGBB11	0xRRGGBB22	0xRRGGBB33
0xRRGGBB44	0xRRGGBB55	0xRRGGBB66	0xRRGGBB77
0xRRGGBB88	0xRRGGBB99	0xRRGGBBAA	0xRRGGBBBB
0xRRGGBBCC	0xRRGGBBDD	0xRRGGBBEE	0xRRGGBBFF

Convert string to value with pawn

Since the colors are just numbers you have to convert them sometimes from an input string "RRGGBBAA" to its number. This can be done using sscanf or the following function:

// Author: DracoBlue  http://forum.sa-mp.com/index.php?topic=638.msg8635#msg8635
HexToInt(string[]){
   if (string[0]==0) return 0;
   new i;
   new cur=1;
   new res=0;
   for (i=strlen(string);i>0;i--) {
     if (string[i-1]<58) res=res+cur*(string[i-1]-48); else res=res+cur*(string[i-1]-65+10);
     cur=cur*16;
   }
   return res;
 }

Edition WhiteJoker

stock HexToInt(string[])
{
    if (string[0] == 0)
    {
        return 0;
    }
    new i;
    new cur = 1;
    new res = 0;
    for (i = strlen(string); i > 0; i--)
    {
        if (string[i-1] < 58)
        {
            res = res + cur * (string[i - 1] - 48);
        }
        else
        {
            res = res + cur * (string[i-1] - 65 + 10);
            cur = cur * 16;
        }
    }
    return res;
}

Use HexToInt("RRGGBBAA") and you'll get a usable number as result for SetPlayerColor.

Color choosers

• SA-MP Colorpicker v1.1.0
• Colors info
• December.com
• RGB Picker

Car colors

These are the color IDs that can be used for cars:

You can find the colors they used in single player for each car on the Original Car Colors page.

Other Car Colors

Warning: These might not sync properly and/or cause clients to crash.

Color ID	Description
130	Very pale pink
132	Pale pistachio
142	Electric blue
144, 145, 181, 182	Turquoise blue
146, 183	Fluorescent pink
147, 184	Sky fluorescent blue
148, 185	Purple
149, 186	Other purple
150, 165	Fuschia
151, 166	Fluorescent red
152, 167	Bind wine color
153, 168, 180	Dark brown
154, 169	Night blue
155, 170	Average red
156, 171	Very dark purple
157, 172	Dark purple
158	King blue
159	Dark pink
160	Other dark pink
161, 176	Lively red
173	Dark fuschia
174	Less dark fuschia
175	Even less dark fuschia
182	Very very bright green
183	Bright Pink
236	Dark green
237, 238, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251	A little less dark green
239, 240, 241, 242, 245, 246	Very dark green
243, 244	Very very dark green (almost black)
252	Brilliant green

There is also another page about the hidden Color IDs.

Chat/dialog embedding

Since the release of SA:MP 0.3c, it has been made possible to use colors in chat and dialogs.

It is very similar to gametext colors, but instead of just a few colors you can enter a color hex, allowing you to use any colors you like.

Example

{FFFFFF}Hello this is {0000FF}blue {FFFFFF}and this is {FF0000}red

Another example

The code for the above chat line looks like this:

SendClientMessage(playerid, COLOR_WHITE, "Welcome to {00FF00}M{FFFFFF}a{FF0000}r{FFFFFF}c{00FF00}o{FFFFFF}'{FF0000}s {FFFFFF}B{00FF00}i{FFFFFF}s{FF0000}t{FFFFFF}r{00FF00}o{FFFFFF}!");

The colors used in color embedding is not like normal hex colors in pawno. There is no '0x' prefix and no alpha value (last 2 digits).

You can also use colors on vehicle license plates!