Sorry for the “ooh, pretty…” n00b question, but this guy came into my server earlier this evening and his name was made out of what looked like “DOS Full Block” characters. When you targetted him, his name showed up in the crosshairs as if it were made of periods, and on the scores readout his name looked like periods, but in the console and whenever he said anything, his name was nice, solid blocks. He had made a handsome German flag out of the blocks, and it was pretty dope looking. Anyway, I’m sure that whenever this was figured out way back when quake3 came out, it was all the rage, but I’d never seen it before today. Does anybody know how to do it?
weird ansi (maybe unicode?) characters in players' names
Ragnar_40k
(Ragnar_40k)
#3
Check RTCWfiles or a similar site for name animators/creators. Some of them have support for special characters included.
Dingo19
(Dingo19)
#4
Sorry, but name animators are just annoying, and a lot of servers will kick for extended characters and animators.
rgoer
(rgoer)
#5
Ah yes, thanks. Before I posted here I was going through almost the entire table of ALT characters (I swear, I must have done ALT+0129 through ALT+0255 straight) looking for cool names; then it dawned on me: you can’t type most of the “different” characters from in-game. Stupid me.
WolfWings
(WolfWings)
#6
One problem I have with the auto-kick is that some perfectly reasonable names for international players that feature letters like áêìõü, which are perfectly valid letters on some keyboard layouts for other countries, are auto-kicked by PunkBuster most of the time.
How hard would it really be to automatically map áêìõü to aeiou for console commands and the like before doing string matching against names? Colour codes are already stripped out, this further ‘cleaning’ would be trivial, as PB kicking for characters the game fully supports rendering seems like bad design, to me. Especially when they’re very valid characters to have in ones real name, let alone a video-game name, in many countries.