Are people seeing what I type?

[rawryy 3]

Hi, bit of a weird question, but when I type in yellow and people are typing in blue can they see what I type in the chat? No-one is answering questions/ignoring me lol....sorry im a noob. Its yellow because i'm typing it right? they can see what im typing??

[Rage VG 4033]

No. The color is what channel you typing in.

Yellow is group or vehicle chat, I don't remember which.

White is direct, AKA everyone NEAR you

Blue is Side chat, which is everyone on the server.

Press the < or > keys until your writing is blue and everyone will hear you.

[Henryllex~ 407]

No, you are in vehicle chat, that is yellow, side channel is blue, direct chat is white(people can hear you up to 50 mts), and group channel doesnt works. to change chats use , .

[OrLoK 16185]

Hello there

Vanilla Arma comes with different chat channels.

I use , and . to change them your config may differ.

If you are chatting in yellow then that is usually the Vehicle Chat.

Blue is the Side Chat

And white is either the Direct Chat or Global Chat.

To hear you in the vehicle chat you need to be in the same vehicle as others.

Side chat will talk to all on your faction and Global talks to everyone no matter the faction.

Direct chat is distance based and only those near you will be able to hear you. But any faction can hear.

Rgds

LoK

[rawryy 3]

OMG wow thanks a lot lol, no wonder why.

[BSB Jimmy 360]

Hello there

Vanilla Arma comes with different chat channels.

I use , and . to change them your config may differ.

If you are chatting in yellow then that is usually the Vehicle Chat.

Blue is the Side Chat

And white is either the Direct Chat or Global Chat.

To hear you in the vehicle chat you need to be in the same vehicle as others.

Side chat will talk to all on your faction and Global talks to everyone no matter the faction.

Direct chat is distance based and only those near you will be able to hear you. But any faction can hear.

Rgds

LoK

vehicle chat can also be used to talk to players in very close proximity

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

Just to add.

If you start typing and notice you're in the wrong channel (I do it all the time), you can use the up/down arrows to switch.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Just to add.

If you start typing and notice you're in the wrong channel (I do it all the time), you can use the up/down arrows to switch.

Lol, I didn't know that. xD

/facepalm

[person915 345]

Lol, I didn't know that. xD

/facepalm

No,

yellow is group chat. I'm almost certain you're typing on this channel because

1) It is the default channel when joining a server.

2) You did not switch channels for sake of not knowing how.

Group chat is a dull yellow, and vehicle chat is more of a bright almost-orange.

Dull blue is global chat, and near-cyan is side chat.

White chat is direct chat.

I think I got all the chat channels.

[OrLoK 16185]

Group chat is green. Forgot that one. Its for squad management.

[OrLoK 16185]

Communication

A multiplayer game can get a lot more fun and tactical when you can communicate with the other players. ArmA offers players several tools to do this without needing to use external applications.

Channels

The game uses several different communication channels to make sure you don't get overwhelmed.

• 'Global channel' - every single player in a session can hear each other using the global channel.
  
• 'Side channel' - only players on the same side can hear you in this channel.
  
• 'Group channel' - all members of your squad are on this channel.
  
• 'Vehicle channel' - everyone on your vehicle's intercom can use this channel.
  
• 'Direct communication' - no radio is used here, so only players within voice range will receive these messages.
  

To switch to another channel press either '.' (colon) or ',' (comma).

Text chat

One method of communicating is sending and receiving text messages. To start typing a message, press '/' (forward slash). Now you will see the message box in which you can type you message and send it by hitting 'Enter'.

While typing a message you need to use 'Up' and 'Down' to change channels, instead of the normal ',' (comma) and '.' (full stop).

copypasta from the arma wiki

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Manual#Communication

Edited March 12, 2013 by orlok

[person915 345]

Group chat is green. Forgot that one. Its for squad management.

Green?

That's the most fucked up shade of green I've seen. If it said it was yellow-green, I might accept it, but it's a damn faded yellow, so...

[OrLoK 16185]

it's green to me. Is your monitor calibrated properly? or is there something Im missing?

[Torix 10]

Can someone tell me more or less the maximum distance between players in direct communication? Is it also affected by buildings?

[Oath3 38]

Just to add.

If you start typing and notice you're in the wrong channel (I do it all the time), you can use the up/down arrows to switch.

Good thing I read this post :3 Not even I knew that one :3

Thanks <3

[wolf urine 3]

Can someone tell me more or less the maximum distance between players in direct communication? Is it also affected by buildings?

It's 40 mtres radius - should be regardless of buildings

[person915 345]

it's green to me. Is your monitor calibrated properly? or is there something Im missing?

It's green in the ArmA 3 Alpha. Most likely it was intended to be green, is just failzorz.

[jazzmutant 5]

it's green to me. Is your monitor calibrated properly? or is there something Im missing?

this is funny =B I'm pretty sure people just register colors differently? when I was a kid I had a cousin try to tell me Johnny Bravo's hair was green.

[wolf urine 3]

this is funny =B I'm pretty sure people just register colors differently? when I was a kid I had a cousin try to tell me Johnny Bravo's hair was green.

........that's because your cousin is colour blind Coke...same as some of the posters evidently are on this thread.

Edited March 14, 2013 by wolf urine

[OrLoK 16185]

But if you were color blind would wont their green be thought of as the same thing as our green?

I blame monitor/tv calibration.

[wolf urine 3]

But if you were color blind would wont their green be thought of as the same thing as our green?

I blame monitor/tv calibration.

You may well be right orlok......but I know somebody who's colour blind and sees green dogs and brown grass 'sometimes' but not always - it depends on the particular shade.

If you are right then the rest of their graphics foliage colours etc are probably wrong, so they are likely seeing a different dayz zone to the rest of us :rolleyes:

[Guest]

Communication

A multiplayer game can get a lot more fun and tactical when you can communicate with the other players. ArmA offers players several tools to do this without needing to use external applications.

Channels

The game uses several different communication channels to make sure you don't get overwhelmed.

• 'Global channel' - every single player in a session can hear each other using the global channel.
  
• 'Side channel' - only players on the same side can hear you in this channel.
  
• 'Group channel' - all members of your squad are on this channel.
  
• 'Vehicle channel' - everyone on your vehicle's intercom can use this channel.
  
• 'Direct communication' - no radio is used here, so only players within voice range will receive these messages.
  

To switch to another channel press either '.' (colon) or ',' (comma).

Text chat

One method of communicating is sending and receiving text messages. To start typing a message, press '/' (forward slash). Now you will see the message box in which you can type you message and send it by hitting 'Enter'.

While typing a message you need to use 'Up' and 'Down' to change channels, instead of the normal ',' (comma) and '.' (full stop).

copypasta from the arma wiki

http://community.bis...l#Communication

Dude you should be a mod with that kinda info ;P

[person915 345]

You may well be right orlok......but I know somebody who's colour blind and sees green dogs and brown grass 'sometimes' but not always - it depends on the particular shade.

If you are right then the rest of their graphics foliage colours etc are probably wrong, so they are likely seeing a different dayz zone to the rest of us :rolleyes:

Color is based on perception because theoretically, "color doesn't exist". Color is visible light that gets reflected off a surface, so we identify them as such. Basically, everyone is seeing the same color, but how we perceive it is different, in the much same way as chicken tastes the same to everyone with tastebuds, but some people just don't like the taste of chicken.

Shades of blue and navy blue, or periwinkle, or navy blue compared to black, and such other things.

Is it tan or is it vanilla colored?

Is it gray or is it black?

It all depends on how we perceive the color.

"Colorblind" folks can't percieve color. They can see it, but they cannot identify the differences. It's like seeing a pencil and a pen and not knowing the difference, not being able to tell.

So the channel colors are what they are, and there's no way to really prove what color they are, because you could be wrong, and you can't prove that it is that color, since it's all based on perception. You just have to give a general idea of what it is.

At that point it's just communicating on what is most understandable to whomever is receiving the information.

Edited March 16, 2013 by McCullins