Make your Name appear in Color in Multiplayer games!

If your sick of looking like a newbie and you want to make you name color here's how. There are only 4 colors that can be used, black, gray, white, and red. To Change your name to color you must edit your WAR2.INI file with the editor that comes with DOS by typing "edit war2.ini" in DOS, in your war2 directory. Then find the part of your .ini where it says "name=" after that is your name. Put the cursor where you want a color to start then hit "Ctrl+p", hold down Ctrl and then hit the color code-

Ctrl-F for black Ctrl-E for gray Ctrl-D for white Ctrl-C for red

When you do this a poker sign should appear. All letters after the poker sign will be the designated color until another color is given.

White is the default color, if no color code is given after the = sign, letters in the beggining of your name will be white until a color sign is given. (Default white looks yellow in menus but white in chatrooms and games)

Ex: To make your name be "DarkKnight" find the line Name= and write DarkKnight (name=DarkKnight") Then put the cursor before the letter D and hold down Ctrl then hit P, then E for gray, now let up on Ctrl you will see a poker symbol there now. Then put the cursor in front of the K and hold down Ctrl and hit P, then C for red. Again you will see a poker symbol.

*Important Note- Warcraft will not show the poker symbol but it will count it as a letter so if your name is 11 letters long you will need to shorten it in order it make it colored. If your name is 9 letters long you will only be able to change colors twice.

How to use xtdd hrtr$ in your Warcraft name

If colors not enough and you want your name to look really kewl, use xtdd hrtr$!!! This section is kind of out of date because now there are programs you can use to do this, but if you are too lazy to download one heres another way to do it. There are a few ways to do this but here is the easiest way to explain. To do use extended characters simply use the Win95 Character Map (Found in accessories). Set the font to "terminal" and then write your name however you want it to be by double clicking on the characters. Then click "Copy". Then just paste using notepad or whatever into your WAR2.INI onto the name= line. It will look messed up in notepad but it will look like you made it in Warcraft.

You can even use colors along with xtdd hrtr$, thats what I used to do. I used to use the name rgr a long time ago, now I just use -=Aragorn=-.

*Important Note - Not all characters will work, some will mess your name up. Just experiment with characters until you find a name you like that works. Also a few of the characters look different in the character map than in Warcraft II.