colorsay

A CSGO plugin for displaying colored text.
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (4.4.0-59-generic, x86_64), but should work any debian based distro.

I have no intention of creating a Windows version of this, but it should just be a matter of compiling.
This plugin uses the AlliedModders CSGO SDK mirror.

License: MIT

Table of Contents

• Releases
• Features
  • Server commands
  • Server convars
  • Client commands
• How to add color to your messages
  • Color tags
  • Examples
• Compilation
• Installation

Releases

Download either the .zip or .tar.gz and unpack it to ${CSGO_DS_DIR}/csgo/addons.

• Latest
• v1.0 - Added colorsay_version and colorsay_id
• v0.9 - First release

Features

Server commands

These can be used through the server console, or through rcon

• colorsay - All chat
• colorsay_spec - Spectators
• colorsay_t - Terrorists
• colorsay_ct - Counter-Terrorists
• colorsay_id - First argument is comma-separated steamIDs, text after is message sent to only those players
  Example: colorsay_id "STEAM_0:1:01234567,STEAM_0:1:76543210" This is a {#4}spooky{#1} message
  Note the citation marks around the steamIDs.
• colorsay_version - Prints the version of the ColorSay plugin

  Server convars

• colorsay_allow_client - Enable to allow client commands (disabled by default)

  Client commands

  These can be used by players through their console.
  By default these are disabled, but can be enabled with the server convar colorsay_allow_client 1.

• colorsay say - All chat
• colorsay say_team - Player's team chat
• colorsay echo - Echo a message to yourself, only visible to you!
• colorsay list - List all available colors, only visible to you!
• colorsay help - Display available commands, or get help about a particular command

How to add color to your messages

All chat related commands are colorized by formatting the message with color tags.
A good way of familiarizing yourself with useage of color tags is to set up a test server with this plugin installed. Type colorsay_allow_client 1 in the server console, join the server, and play around with the colorsay command in your client console.

Color tags

A color tag starts with {# and ends with }. The text inside the tag defines what color to use.
To define a color you can either use their integer value, or their name.

Value	Name	Color
1	White
2	Red
3	Lavender
4	Green
5	Pale green
6	Green yellow
7	Coral red
8	Light grey
9	Light Goldenrod
10	Echo blue
11	Picton blue
12	Royal blue
13	Purple
14	Neon purple
15	Vermilion
16	Orange gold

Examples

• colorsay I am {#royal blue}blue{#white} da ba dee da ba die...
• colorsay I am {#12}blue{#1} da ba dee da ba die...
• colorsay {#2}R{#16}a{#9}i{#4}n{#11}b{#12}o{#13}w

Compilation

You need

• pkg-config
• protoc 2.5.0
• g++-4.6, and g++-4.6-multilib if you're compiling on a 64-bit machine.
• git submodule init && git submodule update

protoc

A copy of the protobuf 2.5.0 source code is provided with the AlliedModders mirror, located in
hl2sdk-csgo/common/protobuf-2.5.0/src
But it seems to be missing some key compilation components (autogen.sh, configure),
so download it from source instead

You can follow the official installation guide, unless you're using a 64-bit distro, and want to run this 32-bit plugin on it. By default it will compile it as a 64-bit program and library, which can't be loaded into srcds_linux

To fix this run:

./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
            --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu \
            "CFLAGS=-m32" "CXXFLAGS=-m32" "LDFLAGS=-m32"

instead of just ./configure.
Also, it will probably help to add --prefix=/usr as mentioned in the guide

Actually compiling the plugin

make

Installation

• Run make install
  Or
• Copy affesay.so and affesay.vdf into ${CSGO_DS_DIR}/csgo/addons.