Hi. I was wondering if it was possible to add more colours to a Smaug based mud other then the 16 ansi colours. Would HTML colours be an option? If so, how would I go about implementing it.
More specifically, what I'm trying to do is colour visual affects such as sanctuary, in colours other than the 16 ANSI.
The only thing that you'd be able to do is add MXP, which I think allows for more colors. That's it.
More specifically, adding MXP allows you to then expand color support to 256 HTML style colors. But this will only work on clients that support the MXP specs. Very few of them do, and those that do don't all support the color tags either.
The other option of course is to supply a custom client and setup however many color options you want for people who use it.
Actually HTML tags (like #abcdef) will support 16,777,216 colours.
However I wouldn't get too excited. Much more than 30 or 40 is probably ridiculous for MUD output, it would look like a rainbow, and who can tell the different between "light green" and "slightly lighter green"?