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How To Set Up Custom Chat Colors and Admin Tags on Your Left 4 Dead 2 Server

Important!

You must have SourceMod and MetaMod installed on your server before following this guide. If you do not have them yet, check out our guides on installing them first.

1. Download the Simple Chat Color (Redux) Plugin

Downloading the Simple Chat Colors.zip file from the AlliedModders forum

2. Log In to Your Panel

3. Select the ‘left4dead2’ Folder

Navigating to the left4dead2 root folder in the Cybrancee server file manager

4. Upload the Simple Chat Color(Redux).zip to ‘left4dead2’ Folder

Uploading the Melee In The Safe Room 2-0-7.zip file to the sourcemod folder

5. Unarchive the Simple Chat Color(Redux).zip

Clicking the unarchive option on the Melee In The Safe Room zip file

6. Select the ‘addons’ Folder

Left 4 dead 2 Selecting the addon folder

7. Select ‘sourcemod’ Folder

Selecting the SourceMod folder in L4D2

8. Select the ‘configs’ Folder

Opening the configs folder inside the sourcemod directory

9. Select the ‘simple-chatcolor.cfg‘ File

Clicking the simple-chatcolors.cfg file

10. Scroll to the Bottom

As seen in the first screenshot, the top of this file is full of developer notes. Scroll all the way to the bottom until you see the line:

// --------DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE--------

Scrolling down to the admin_colors section of the configuration file

11. Enter Your Steam ID

Look at the "admin_colors" block right below that line. Find the "STEAM_0:1:1234567890" placeholder and replace it with your actual Steam ID. Make sure you keep the quotation marks around it!

Highlighting and replacing the placeholder Steam ID in the configuration file

12. How the Configuration Work

Here is exactly what the rest of those variables do so you can customise your tag perfectly:

"Admins" / "VIP": Below your Steam ID, there are group blocks. If a player doesn’t have their specific Steam ID listed, but they have the Admin "flag" listed in this block (like the "z" root admin flag), they will get this group tag instead!

"tag": This is the actual text prefix that appears before your name. Make sure to leave a space inside the quotes after your tag (e.g., "[Owner] ") so it doesn’t squish into your username!

"tagcolor" / "namecolor" / "textcolor": These dictate the colour of the prefix, the username, and the actual message you type. In Left 4 Dead 2, {G} stands for Green, {T} stands for Team Colour, and {O} stands for olive.

13. Select the ‘Save Content’ Button

14. Restart Your Server

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