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Announce News Post #2394

A Veritable Rainbow Rises Above Lusternia

Written by: Ieptix the Anomaly
Date: Monday, November 17th, 2014
Addressed to: Everyone


As of the recent upgrade to our Rapture engine, Lusternia now supports
256 colours, allowing you to customize your Lusternia experience like
never before!

Using the extended colour palette requires both a client that supports
Xterm256 colours, such as our HTML5 client or Mudlet. Clients that do
not support xterm colour codes will continue using the basic 16 ANSI
colours. To enable the extended palette, you must negotiate such with
the server. For some clients, this is as easy as simply connecting; we
can auto-detect from your client information whether to use extended
colours. For clients where this isn't an option, a new config option,
CONFIG XTERM, has been added, which can force the use of the extended
palette either on or off. Consult your client's documentation to ensure
it supports xterm sequences before manually enabling them.

Presently, the extended colour palette is available for use with CONFIG
COLOUR, with both foreground and background colours are supported. A new
command, COLOURS, has been added, which will list all colours available
for you based on your xterm settings; the full palette if it's enabled,
and the basic 16 ansi colours if it's not.

In the case where you happen to have configured colours in the extended
range, and then either disable xterm sequences or switch to a client
that does not support them, Lusternia will automatically downsample the
colours into the ANSI colour range.

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