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Optionally give every other local-chat speaker a stable, deterministic color (HSL from a hash of their UUID) and their displayed name relative to its text color, IRC-style.

Also ties into RlvActions::canShowName to try avoid defeating @shownames.

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  • New Features
    • Added optional IRC-style chat colors that assign consistent colors to individual avatars.
    • Added controls for enabling avatar colors, matching name tags, and adjusting saturation and lightness.
    • Added a live chat preview in the Colors preferences panel.
  • Improvements
    • Applied avatar-specific colors across local chat, chat history, and name tags when enabled.
    • Preserved existing coloring for system messages, self, objects, and hidden names where appropriate.
    • Updated the Colors preferences layout to accommodate the new controls and preview.

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Adds deterministic per-avatar IRC-style colors for chat, names, and name tags. It adds persisted color settings, integrates overrides into rendering paths, and adds preference controls with a live chat preview.

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IRC-style avatar chat colors

Layer / File(s) Summary
Color generation and settings
indra/newview/alavatargroups.*, indra/newview/app_settings/settings_alchemy.xml
Defines UUID-based HSL color generation, eligibility checks, public coloring APIs, and persisted enablement and tuning settings.
Chat and avatar rendering
indra/newview/llviewerchat.cpp, indra/newview/llchathistory.cpp, indra/newview/llvoavatar.cpp
Applies IRC colors to chat text, chat-history names and links, and avatar name tags. Existing color paths remain as fallbacks.
Color preferences and live preview
indra/newview/llfloaterpreference.*, indra/newview/skins/default/xui/en/floater_preferences.xml, indra/newview/skins/default/xui/en/panel_preferences_colors.xml
Loads a dedicated colors panel with IRC settings and regenerates representative chat content when tracked color or format inputs change.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cfc5a

The opt-in chat-color feature is mergeable with owner awareness: nearby-chat toasts may retain legacy coloring, and the preferences preview may not refresh immediately when name visibility changes. These are bounded presentation inconsistencies rather than release-blocking risks.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ViewerChat
  participant ALAvatarGroups
  participant ChatHistory
  participant Avatar
  ViewerChat->>ALAvatarGroups: Request IRC chat color
  ALAvatarGroups-->>ViewerChat: Return color or fallback
  ChatHistory->>ALAvatarGroups: Request IRC name color
  ALAvatarGroups-->>ChatHistory: Return color or fallback
  Avatar->>ALAvatarGroups: Request IRC name-tag color
  ALAvatarGroups-->>Avatar: Return color or fallback
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Poem

A rabbit hues the chatroom bright
UUID stars turn names to light
Sliders guide the tones with care
A preview blooms beside the flair
Tags may match the colors too
Bouncy carrots cheer the view

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Description check ⚠️ Warning The description clearly summarizes the feature and includes a preview attachment, but it does not follow the repository template. It omits the required Related Issues section, checklist, and Additiona… Rewrite the description using the repository template. Add the Description, Related Issues, Checklist, and Additional Notes sections. Provide an issue link or explain why none applies, and complete the checklist with testing and review deta…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding IRC-style chat color options.
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might be nice to add a preview as to what the settings look like here too

that's done

@gwigz gwigz changed the title Add IRC-style chat colors Add IRC-style chat colors options Jun 14, 2026
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gwigz force-pushed the gwigz/irc-chat-colors branch from e39e97e to 84e3cb4 Compare June 14, 2026 16:21
gwigz and others added 2 commits August 28, 2026 08:38
Optionally give every other local-chat speaker a stable, deterministic
color (HSL from a hash of their UUID) and dim their displayed name
relative to its text color, IRC-style. Ported from the slv fork, dropping
the bundled LEAP/viewer-api theme endpoints.

Adapted for Alchemy: the logic lives on ALAvatarGroups (the central
avatar color controller) as getIRCChatColor/getIRCNameColor, and only
overrides the "other agent" case so self, system, object and owner-say
messages keep the colors already configured in Preferences > Colors >
Chat. Muted speakers stay greyed. Exposed there as an enable toggle plus
saturation / lightness / name-dimming sliders.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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gwigz force-pushed the gwigz/irc-chat-colors branch from 84e3cb4 to f8b5963 Compare August 28, 2026 07:38
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gwigz marked this pull request as ready for review August 28, 2026 07:53

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In `@indra/newview/alavatargroups.cpp`:
- Around line 325-342: Update ALAvatarGroups::getIRCNameColor to apply the same
source filtering as getIRCChatColor: return false unless chat.mSourceType is
CHAT_SOURCE_AGENT, chat.mFromID is not gAgentID, and the message is not
SYSTEM_FROM; retain the existing enabled and canShowName checks for eligible
other-agent speakers.

Apply the same fix in `@indra/newview/llchathistory.cpp` at line 1383.

In `@indra/newview/llfloaterpreference.cpp`:
- Around line 3090-3105: Update mPreviewSignature construction in
updatePreview() to include alpha alongside RGB for every rendered color and add
ChatHeaderTimestampColor to the tracked colors. Resolve ChatHeaderTimestampColor
during each updatePreview() call instead of relying on the cached value used
near the preview rendering.
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  • indra/newview/llfloaterpreference.cpp
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3185-3194: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Refresh the preview when name visibility changes.

getIRCChatColor() and getIRCNameColor() depend on RlvActions::canShowName(). mPreviewSignature does not track that result. If @shownames changes while this panel is open, the preview retains the previous IRC colors until another tracked setting changes. Track the effective name-visibility state for the sample IDs, or subscribe to the RLV state change and call updatePreview().

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In `@indra/newview/llfloaterpreference.cpp` around lines 3185 - 3194, Update the
preview signature/update flow around mPreviewSignature and updatePreview() to
include the effective RlvActions::canShowName() result for the sample chat
identities, or trigger updatePreview() when that RLV state changes, so toggling
`@shownames` immediately refreshes IRC chat and name colors.
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In `@indra/newview/llfloaterpreference.cpp`:
- Around line 3185-3194: Update the preview signature/update flow around
mPreviewSignature and updatePreview() to include the effective
RlvActions::canShowName() result for the sample chat identities, or trigger
updatePreview() when that RLV state changes, so toggling `@shownames` immediately
refreshes IRC chat and name colors.

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gwigz commented Aug 28, 2026

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In @indra/newview/llfloaterpreference.cpp:

  • Around line 3185-3194: Update the preview signature/update flow around
    mPreviewSignature and updatePreview() to include the effective
    RlvActions::canShowName() result for the sample chat identities, or trigger
    updatePreview() when that RLV state changes, so toggling @shownames immediately
    refreshes IRC chat and name colors.

this is a preferences panel, so that doesn't matter really

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