Text in Trackmania can be styled in almost any place you can think of. You may style the name of your map, your nickname or even your chat messages! This guide will give you all you need to get started with text formatting and styling.
All styling is represented in the form of of special control characters that determine the style of the succeeding text.
For text formatting like bold or italic text, they have one control character, whereas colors have 3 (more on that later). Each control character must have a $ in before it.
To give you a few examples, the control character o will format the text as bold and the control character i would format the text in italic. So you would write $o for bold and $i for italic and then the text to be formatted.
Example:
$oTrackmania would become $oTrackmania
$iTrackmania would become $iTrackmania
You can also combine them, so $o$iTrackmania would be bold and italic: $o$iTrackmania
A more complex example of using them at multiple places in the text for different formatting at different places would be:
$oThis$z is $o$iTrackmania! would become: $oThis$z is $o$iTrackmania!
Here are all the available way to format your text without colors.
| Control Character | Formatting | Example |
|---|---|---|
$o |
Bold. | $oTrackmania becomes $oTrackmania |
$i |
Italic. | $iTrackmania becomes $iTrackmania |
$w |
Wide text. | $wTrackmania becomes $wTrackmania |
$n |
Narrow Text | $nTrackmania becomes $nTrackmania |
$m |
Resets text width. | $wTrackmania$m2020 becomes $wTrackmania$m2020 |
$t |
Force uppercase. | $tTrackmania becomes $tTrackmania |
$s |
Drop shadow. | $sTrackmania becomes $sTrackmania |
$L[LINK] |
Clickable link. | $lhttps://trackmania.com/$l would become https://trackmania.com/ and $l[https://trackmania.com/]Trackmania$l would become Trackmania |
$g |
Reset color to default. | $f00Hello$g Trackmania! becomes $f00Hello$g Trackmania! |
$z |
Reset all styling to default. | $o$0ffHello$z Trackmania! becomes $o$0ffHello$z Trackmania! |
$$ |
Escape the $ symbol. | Give me some $$ becomes Give me some $$ |
Colors are a bit more complicated as they require three control characters in the form of a hexadecimal number.
If you have never heard about the hexadecimal number system (hex for short), you may be wondering what on earth I’m talking about. You are normally used to the decimal number system, where each digit is from 0 to 9 and any other number is a compound of these digits. But in hexadecimal you have 15 digits instead of 10. In hex each digit is from 0 to F (0123456789ABCDEF) with F representing 15.
In Trackmania each color is represented by three hexadecimal digits RGB with R being the red channel, G is the green channel and B is the blue channel. So the hexadecimal digit would then represent the strength of it’s color channel.
For example, in the color code F00, Red would be strength F (15) and green and blue would be 0. This would be a perfect red color. But in the color code 0F0 red would be 0, and green would be F (15) and blue 0. This would be a perfect green.
Another example would be FF0, here we have a perfect red and a perfect green combined. Mixing these two colors, red and green, would become yellow. You can also reduce the strength of the channels, for example 660 would become a dark green color.
Some more examples:
000 is BlackFFF is White888 is Gray00F is BlueFB0 is OrangeFCD is PinkADE is Light BlueSo now that you understand how the color codes work, you can now apply them! The syntax is almost the same as with font formatting: $RGB
Becomes:
You can calculate an approximation of the full hexadecimal color color using the following formulas. Here RR, GG, BB represents red, green and blue in the full hexadecimal code #RRGGBB and R, G, B represents red, green and blue for trackmania color code $RGB. The ‘0x’ is added in front of the color codes to indicate they are a hexadecimal number:
R = round(0xRR/0xFF*0xF)
G = round(0xGG/0xFF*0xF)
B = round(0xBB/0xFF*0xF)
=> $RGB
It is possible to isolate your styling from any outside styling using the $< Your text and formatting here $> syntax.
This can be useful some times when your style might interfere with something else for example in the chat, or if something interferes with your styling.
Some icons are available ingame.
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Here are some tools you can use to simplify the styling of your text: