Wodiesan
LoMS Member
A few LoMSers asked about changing text colors on #LoMSGlobal so I went and looked for the dev response regarding the reason why it hasn't been implemented. Via Glaucom from Dec 2013:
https://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?75953-Chat-Channel-Colors/page2
I wouldn't be surprised if those same reasons are responsible for the lack of updates on chat for Legends. I do remember another post where it's elaborated upon a bit more, but I can't seem to locate it.
The chat system is one of the few things left in the GUI that isn't part of the new UI system. Almost everything in the new UI system uses Scaleform and Flash, but there are some things that were very complicated to recreate in the new UI system, so they were done using bits and pieces of the old system. (Other examples include the dungeon anima well popup, and the minimap)
So the current UI modding tools, which are basically just Flash, won't work with these since they're done in the old UI system. However, the way that system works was changed enough in order to get it to play well with the new UI elements, that the old modding tools won't work.
But basically yeah, it's not as easy as flipping a switch. It requires a bit more work than that. It's still something I would like to see done, it's just that given the level of effort required there are other things right now that are a priority.
Meanwhile, if you want to mess with the text colors. Take a look at The Secret World\Data\Gui\Default\TextColors.xml. I don't think it will let you give custom channels different colors, but it may let you change colors of some of the already existing channels.
https://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?75953-Chat-Channel-Colors/page2
I wouldn't be surprised if those same reasons are responsible for the lack of updates on chat for Legends. I do remember another post where it's elaborated upon a bit more, but I can't seem to locate it.