How to Change Control Text Color or Chat Color in Counter Strike 1.6

The Control Text color is the color that is shown for the chat text in the left bottom. This color can be changed to required color from the default orange. The command for this is

con_color "250 250 250"

This color can be anything and it can be changed from 0 to 255. It should not exceed 255. All 0's mean black and all 255's mean white. You can see the colors and their corresponding numerical combinations in the Paint application of windows. Select the color and see the numbers. Give those numbers in this command.

There is no need to give the command each time you start the game. It will be saved. Or else, you can directly see the command in the Config.cfg. Edit there and it is for ever. In the same config.cfg you can see the crosshair color and size too.

How to Change Spray Paint in Counter Strike 1.6,CZ with out any Decals Software

Spray Paint!
Spray Paint is the image you can put on the map walls and ground to show other what you want to. This can be done by tapping "t" key in your keyboard. This key is default key and can be changed. You can spray the image after 10 seconds which also can be changed by the server. This is called as the decal time. You might have come across the word decals many times in your playing history and this is what it means.

How to Change the Image!
You can change the image you want to spray in many ways. There are many software which allows you to change the image you like to change into the decal or spray paint. This application is called as Decal Converter and you can download it from any website you get for the keyword download Decal Converter in Google. You can get the latest version there. The application asks you to give the input image which should be conerted to the decal. The size is also asked here it self. All you need to do is, give the image and it will give you the decal. The application will compile the image and produces .bmp image. Now you should put the .bmp image or the out put image in the folder "valve\logos". This is the master folder which is same even if you are using cstrike or czero or valve.

In the second method you can create a .bmp file with the dimensions 64x64 or 32x32 or 128x32 etc. Then you can make an image you like in that bmp file. You need to set the colors such that the transparent part of the final spray should appear black here, and the colored part should be white. And again you need to paste the final image in vlave\logos.

The easiest method is go to the vlave\logos folder and open a decal which is a bmp file and edit it as you like, but dont change its size even a single pixel. Now save it as some other filename and restart the game. You can select your spray named the filename you have give.

Your friends will start asking you help if you are successful and if you did not get what this is, see the valve\logos folder in your counter strike installation or the half-life installation and read this. You will get the point so simply.

Finally!
In the game you can spray the paint once after very 10 seconds. You need to be careful with the colors you are using. Where ever the black color is there it will be transparent in the final spray and where ever there is white color, it will be shown as the color you select in the spray paint options in mutiplayer.

Counter Strike: Condition Zero Metamod, AMX Mod X, Admin Mod and Add-ons.

Apart from it being a great game, there are many more add-ons for Counter Strike 1.6 (CS1.6) and Counter Strike: Condition Zero(CSCZ). These add-ons are third party plug-ins created for better game play. One of these add-ons is AMX Mod X and the other is Admin Mod. These are the most widely used and comprises of many advantages in the game play.

Metamod:

Metamod is the dll file use to modulate the game. This will add a great flexibilty to the game management. The so called addons like AMX MOD X and Admin Mod both are based on the basic level of the management the Metamod.

Metamod Addons:

Metamod plugins include the following

1. Admin Mod
2. AMX
3. AMX MOD X
4. ClanMod
5. Cheating-Death
6. Podbots
7. Statsme
8. Chicken Mod
9. WebMod

Admin Mod installation:

You can Admin Mod from this website http://www.adminmod.org/

The installation is easy, which uses java script to install Admin Mod automatically.

AMX Mod X Installation:

You can Download AMX MOD X from this website http://www.amxmodx.org/.

Install it as follows:

The setup file you download installs AMX MOD X installer. Then run the installer.exe. It shows the following window during its installation. If you use the amx for hosting a normal gaming server in your PC for your local area network(LAN), select the last option “Select mod directory.”

Now install folder selected should be “CSTRIKE” or “CZERO” folder respectively for CS and CZ.

That’s all installation is complete. To verify the work, start new multiplayer game, open the console(by pressing ~ button beside 1) just type amx, you should get the words shown below. Type amxx plug-ins, it will show the pugins installed, check in the Mod you have installed AMX i.e CS1.6 or CSCZ.

AMX Mod X Advantages:

AMX MOD X helps in controlling the game options. You can type AMX commands in the console to control the game options. Also it will show up a menu by typing the command "amxmodmenu" in the console.

Some amx commands:

amxmodmenu - Shows a menu of AMX MOD X, Simple and Easy.
amx_statscfgmenu - shows a menu to configure statistics.
amx_map mapname - changes map
amx_vote q op1 op2 - displays a vote to the players
amx_pausecfg - to pause the game.

Using its features:

The AMX Mod X uses other plugins also to make the game play different than normal. You can slap, slay, kick, ban other players. Stats plugins can also be used to show the statistics of game play like ranks of the players. Some plugins can be added to change the game play. For example, Death Match plugin, Gun Game plugin, etc.

Installed AMX Mod X would create an “addons” folder in CSTRIKE or CZERO folder in which ever you have selected.

Folders:

>Valve
>>czero
>>cstrike
>>>addons
>>>>amxmodx
>>>>>>configs
plugins.ini
modules.ini
>>>>>>plugins
*.amxx files (actual usage)
>>>>>>scripting
*.sma files (source files)
>>>>>>compiled
*.amxx files (output files)

Now that you have installed AMX MOD X, you need to know how to install the addons.

AMX MOD X Plugins:

1. Counter Strike Death Match (CSDM)
2. GunGame
3. Warcraft
4. ATAC
5. Psychostats

Installing Addons:

Addons are the additional plugins for AMX MOD X which will change the game play of the games you have installed on. Addons like GunGame and DeathMatch are very famous and most widely used for Gameplay.

For Example Installing the Counter Strike Death Match for AMX MOD X

1. Download the package from http://www.bailopan.net/csdm/
2. You will get the following in the package
   csdm
   pics
   csdm_mod.sma
   csdm_mod.amxx etc.
3. Put the “csdm” folder in “…\amxmodx\” folder. This folder is needed for random spawn points.
4. Put the csdm_mod.amxx in “plugins” folder, and add the text line “csdm_mod.amxx”in the end of plugins.ini. If this does not work in the game, compile the csdm_mod.sma, and put the output file csdm_mod.amxx in the plugins folder.
   Compiling: Put the csdm_mod.sma in scripting folder, run compile.exe. Output files will be placed in “compiled” folder.
5. Restart the game, restart a multiplayer game. You should get the Death Match directly. You can disable the csdm by adding a “;” semicolon in front of the line csdm_mod.amxx in plugins.ini file.

Installing any addon includes placing the folders in their perticular location and placing the .amxx files and .sma files in their locations. Also compiling the source.