Closed zturtleman closed 6 years ago
illwieckz
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6 years ago Yeah I've noticed some WO:ET servers and players use some color code like ^., ^/, ^_ and so on, so I thought about implementing something similar. Thank you for having done that!
The fact that Doom3 expects ^^ to be an empty string is more annoying…
illwieckz
commented
6 years ago @zturtleman I'll merge this even if I have some other improvement ideas because I have a lot of commits to push that touches many part of the code and since this filtering code looks good and works, I just merge it to avoid rebase madness and if you have improvements to do or if you have some to do they will be done in further PR.
Make Quake 3 remove all sequences of ^ followed by a character other than ^ to match the engine behavior. This is required for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory servers as people use any character (such as ',').
Add a new color flag COLOR_QUAKE3_NUMERIC for games that expect only ^[0-9] to be removed such as Xonotic.
Add a new color flag COLOR_QUAKE3_ALPHA for ioquake3-based games that (combined with COLOR_QUAKE3_NUMERIC) expect only ^[0-9a-zA-Z].
While this is accurate for Quake 3 it is not accurate for all games based on it. This is kind of veering off into pointless and hard to maintain (accurate for all games) without per-game color removal function. Some examples. Jedi Outcast treats ^ followed by less or equal to '7' as a color (see ASCII table) whereas XQF will treat "^[0-9]" as colors. For Doom 3 "^^" should be removed instead of displayed as "^" by XQF.