Remove/Disable/Edit: "Powered By: ArcEmu" messages

[NeoMarine]

Anyone know how to remove the "Powered By: ArcEmu" that comes up constantly... I'm running 3.0.3 WOTLK with the "Ultimate Wotlk Repack". I just need to remove that annoying message if possible.

Also, there is a file called "arcemu-world.conf", inside it says:

# Motd
# This message will be displayed by the server in the chat
# box every time any user logs on. Colors can be used in the
# standard WoW format.
# Default: "No MOTD specified

Motd = "Welcome to the server!"

How can I apply "WoW Format" to get colors in Motd string? Say, I'd like blue "Welcome to the server!"... I tried Welcome but that doesn't work... oh well I have it a shot!

[Twisted7]

If you're using a repack, there is no way for you to remove the Powered by message, since that requires a core edit, which requires source code, which the repack does not include. I don't think you should remove the Powered by line in the first place, but whatever.

As for the message of the day thing, you need to use WoW color codes. WoW color codes work in the following format:

|cAARRGGBB

Where AA, RR, GG, and BB are two-digit hexadecimal numbers.
AA = alpha (always use FF for this)
RR = red
GG = green
BB = blue

Use an online color picker to find the color you want, they usually give you an HTML color code in the form of #RRGGBB. So, for example, to use this color, the HTML color code is #4E4E68, and to use it in WoW you would type:

|cFF4E4E68Your MotD text here.

Hope this helps.



Edit: For a blue welcome message, you'd use the color code |cFF0000FF (255 alpha, 0 red, 0 green, 255 blue). As in:

|cFF0000FFWelcome to my server!

Sorry for the nonstop edits I'm making to this post lol, it keeps changing every time you refresh :P

[NeoMarine]

Do you know how to do other styling such as italics/bold/underline/font-size ?

+Rep, thanks for that!

Anyone else have ideas to remove the nag message?

[Twisted7]

Glad I could help.

Unfortunately it is not possible to format server-side text (I don't even think you can do it client-side for that matter). You can mix color codes though, by using |r which is basically like [/font] or </font>. For example, |cFFFF0000Welcome to|r|cFF00FF00my server!

As for the nag message, it only appears once upon login, so why does it bother you? I just think it would be courteous to leave the message there, you are using ArcEmu's software after all. But if you want to remove it, you've got to compile the core yourself. Sorry :/

[CampStaff]

This information is good, much appreciated.
+rep

[drew77]

The "Powered by: ArcEmu" message that pops constantly isn't compiled in the core...it's part of the world database in worldbroadcast.sql just open it and remove what you want from it.

[Twisted7]

Wait wait, you mean there's like a periodic announcement saying Powered by ArcEmu?? That's stupid as hell, I'd remove it too. I thought you were just talking about the message that appears once when you log in.

If this is your problem, then yes you can remove that one simply by removing it from the worldbroadcast table in your world database. The logon message will still be there but it will get rid of any periodic server-wide nag announcements.

[marcelo_20xx]

Although I wouldn't recommend editing that line in the core, here is how to remove the login message:

Find this section in CharacterHandlers.cpp and delete the Powered by....message, save the file a recompile the core.

#ifdef WIN32
	_player->BroadcastMessage("delete this line", MSG_COLOR_WHITE, BUILD_TAG,
		BUILD_REVISION, CONFIG, ARCH, MSG_COLOR_LIGHTBLUE);		
#else
	_player->BroadcastMessage("delete this line", MSG_COLOR_WHITE, BUILD_TAG,
		BUILD_REVISION, PLATFORM_TEXT, ARCH, MSG_COLOR_LIGHTBLUE);

As for the Welcome to my server message you can make a more fancy and colourful message-on-join with a simple Lua Script and it will display across the screen not only in the chatbox.