This post is 100% in thanks to Girl Meets WoW, who wrote this up a while back. I read her post, went “Oh cool!” and then went and did it… and drove many of my other guildies into frustration because I have been too focused on other things to ever actually let them know how I did it.
In response to their complaints, here. Fine. Now will you leave me to kill my trees in peace?
The whole thing is about changing either your Guild Message of the Day, the public Guild Note of a character, or the ‘officer-only viewable’ Guild Note of a character to be in colors. Girl Meets WoW wrote all about it right here.
I only ever messed with the character public Guild Notes, because that was the funnest part… to drive other guildies nuts.
Girl Meets WoW has the instructions on what to type-in right on her post, or you can go to the Colorizer webpage directly and play around with the code generator yourself.
Personally, I had a few minor problems getting it to work, but nothing too bad. When I tried to make the rainbow effect, I wasn’t able to figure it out. I’m probably just stupid, and I KNOW I’m lazy cause I didn’t spend much time on it. I was too happy to make my Hunters’ public note say “Epic Quality!” in purple.
As I use the GuildFu plugin for my Fubar addon, it is super easy to see everyone in the guild that is online, and all their guild notes… and seeing all those bland grey/green notes, all the same boring color, with my bright purple standing out was very, very cool.
Basically, the first key point is you have to have permissions to change color settings on guild notes. That pretty much means you need to be an officer or a rank in your guild that can make or modify notes in the first place.
Then, to change any person’s public Guild note, you would first open your Social tab, open the Guild tab, and click on the name of the person whose note you are changing.
Open the chat (or ‘Say’) window and copy/paste the following into it;
/run GuildRosterSetPublicNote(GetGuildRosterSelection(),”\124cffXXXXXXYOURNOTE”)
For XXXXXX you enter in the 6 digit hexadecimal code for your chosen color, and for YOURNOTE type in your chosen message. That’s it. Dead simple.
What I chose was the following for my hunter;
/run GuildRosterSetPublicNote(GetGuildRosterSelection(),”\124cffff00ccEpic Quality!”)
Epic Quality!
On my Druid, I set a long message, and after posting and looking correct for a few minutes, the tail end of it vanished like a Rogue. I changed the note to something shorter, and it has lasted for weeks now. I made this message ina nice, Druid friendly green.
/run GuildRosterSetPublicNote(GetGuildRosterSelection(),”\124cff00cc33Group 1 - Bear Tank”)
Group 1 - Bear Tank
In all cases, make sure you go straight to Girl Meets WoW and to the Colorizator pages for more info. I think the colored Guild notes are awesome… and I regret no longer having sole uniqueness, but on the positive side, this should make for more fun notes.
My biggest regret? I was going to add the Public note “Blizzard GM” in Legendary Orange color next to my name, and screw with the new folks in the guild. Oh well, I’ll find new ways to have fun, I’m sure.
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December 27th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
This is awesome. Didn’t even know you could to that! I am going to check out and trip people out with it tonight.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Putting “Meh Quality” in green is obviously the next step.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Hey bigbearbutt,
You have to do \124cffXXXXXXLETTERORWORD everytime you do a color change… it’s a pain, but I had to figure it out since the website she linked that does it for you is broken?
I also had to change a slash and add a ( to make my GMOTD in color work. Hope this helps!
April 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
i tried it a week ago and it worked - not it wont even change colors - any idea?
this is what i did
/run GuildSetMOTD(”\124cffff9933There is no cow level.”)
it still shows up in green
plz help
thanks
June 4th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Hello! First off I wanted to say I recently found your site here and I’ve been enjoying all the good reads!
Secondly, I have a question about the guild note coloring. Have you tried it recently? My friends and I have been trying to get it to work but each time we do we get kicked out of the game and have to log back on, and the only thing it accomplishes is deleting the current note that was already in place (leaving nothing but a blank note).
We’d really love to play around with it, but I think something must have changed with the /run command to make it work.
Anyhow, thanks for your blogging efforts, this is a great site!