Color Gradient Highlight

Tydas

So, a while back, I think it was @Regi who showed some of us on a clan that he likes to highlight some people's names in such a way, that the leftmost character starts off in one color and smoothly moves into another color at the rightmost character. The result was kind of cool, and for a while I've considered writing a general script to do it myself. While looking into it, I found not only RGB gradients, but an HSV and inverse HSV gradient as well, and decided to incorporate those as options. The HSV tends to preserve how intense/bright the colors are in the gradient, while RGB tends to get a little dark.

Source code is here. Just throw it all into a script, then call colorGrad(string, left_color_hex_string, right_color_hex_string, optional_gradient_type). RGB is default, 1 is HSV, 2 is HSV inverse. It returns a string that you plug into hecho. Sorry if it's a little weird, I've been sick and I wrote most of it while I was pretty tired.

Here's what it looks like. RGB, HSV, HSV-inverse, in that order, with different colors I chose mostly at random.

No idea if anyone would actually want it, but it was fun to make.

Tahquil

-cackles-
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Kyrra

That one third from the bottom is so pretty! I'd love something like this.

Kenway

Oh that's neato. Might replace my rainbow crits with these. Maybe recolor my dsb echoes

Tydas

So, small problem. I forgot to reset the format of the hecho. It's not a huge deal depending on how you're using it, but here's the script with that problem fixed.

Nataliia

Kenway said:

Oh that's neato. Might replace my rainbow crits with these. Maybe recolor my dsb echoes

You read my mind!! So when you get that working for you... you know how to get ahold of me.

Coamenel

I stole this function. Not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it's to cool to let go.

Regi

Nicely done @Tydas, my script actually colors each letter individually and I have to assign RGB values manually to the target words or phrases. I also didn't write it, was shared with me by an old now retired friend, not sure if she wrote it or if not where she got it from though.

This is good work, hope lots of people enjoy it.

Tahquil

@Tydas. I actually meant this script. Can you put this script to work with the data for svof politics?

Keneanung

Tahquil said:

@Tydas. I actually meant this script. Can you put this script to work with the data for svof politics?

Not in svof itself, you could use the data to do something with it.

If there was a way to use it on existing text (the namedb uses selectString), I could probably implement something to allow the usage of arbitrary functions for highlighting.

Tahquil

yus pls. Go go go.