How to make gradients on Pesterchum

here is the video i made doing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xFNeIxt0KA

NOTE: YOU CAN ONLY MAKE GRADIENTS ON THE CLIENT, YOU CANNOT MAKE GRADIENTS ON PESTERCHUM ONLINE!!!

I am unsure if you can make gradients on Pesterchum Godot, but I'm guessing you can't. The Pesterchum client requires download which you can get here: https://github.com/Dpeta/pesterchum-alt-servers/releases
The client has the Set Quirk option, which is required to make a gradient. Pesterchum Online doesn't have this feature and most likely never will.

1. Locate where you downloaded your Pesterchum file.

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Typically, you will find these in your downloads folder. The folder name should look similar to what's presented above.
(If the file folder has a zipper over it, right click it and select extract all and let it extract, then it should open the unzipped file in a new tab)
Scroll around to find your file and open it, then open the only file in there.
When you open that, you will be presented with a list similar to what is below.
You will be opening the file folder titled quirks, should be presented with three files, one of which being titled gradient
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2. Making your Gradient

Firstly, right click on gradient and click on copy (Also works with clicking gradient and pressing ctrl+c on your keyboard)
Then right click in the same folder and click paste (ctrl+v) then you will be presented with a new file: gradient - Copy
To make things easy, right click on it and select rename, pick a name that you want to describe your gradient.
In this case, I will be renaming it Cardinal.
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Right click your new gradient and Open with > Notepad.
(If Notepad is not in the list provided, you can click Choose another app and then pick Notepad, then pick either Just Once or Always.)
That will open the gradient in Notepad. You will be presented with the following:
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That's the gradient, which uses hex codes to get the color.
How do you pick out your colors you want? Use this: https://colordesigner.io/gradient-generator
Once on the site, change the number of colors it will give you from 10 to 12
12 is the number of colors the most you can have in one gradient without Pesterchum crashing.
The colors I will be using will be a pinkish red to black.
You can change the mode to how you wish it to be (I don't know the differences between them, but I will be using HSL)
Scroll down the page and you'll be presented with HEX, which will contain the hex codes you will be putting into the gradient.
You will just copy paste the hex codes into the notepad like this:
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Common Mistake

Just click the code like this ff0027 not #ff0027 cause clicking the existing hex code in the notepad will either select the numbers or the entire line. and pasting #ff0027 into it will end up looking like ##ff0027 and leaving it like that will cause the gradient to break on Pesterchum.
You could still do this but REMEMBER to delete the extra #. Otherwise, the gradient won't work.

Next, you can press ctrl+f, which will present you with a search bar that will look up phrases in the notepad.
(Doing this is much easier than manually searching through the notepad )
Type in rainbow in the bar and press enter.
There is three rainbow you will be changing to the name of your gradient.
Theres a V like symbol beside the search bar that when you hover over it says Open replace options
Click that, you'll be presented with another bar which in that you will out in the name of the gradient. Use Replace to do it Use the up and down arrows presented on your screen to go through the notepad.
The rainbow you will be changing are in Ln 3, Col 12; Ln 85, Col 9; and Ln 85, Col 29
Ln 3, Col 12 should look something like this: def cardinal(text):
Ln 85, Col 9 and Ln 85, Col 29 should look something like this: cardinal.comand = "cardinal"
Once you've completed this, click File then Save (ctrl+s)
Now you've made your gradient!! Now just to put it into pesterchum.

3. Putting your gradient on Pesterchum

Open up Pesterchum and go to QUIRKS, which will be under PROFILE
Click ADD QUIRK and then select Regexp Replace
If you were already on Pesterchum and your gradient isn't on Available Regexp Functions,
Click RELOAD FUNCTIONS It should appear then after that.
Then follow what's provided below (Instead of cardinal it should be the name of your quirk)
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After that, you can see if it works in TEST QUIRKS
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Congratulations! Enjoy your new Pesterchum gradient!
If you have any questions about gradients, feel free to ask.

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Pub: 17 Jul 2023 18:49 UTC
Edit: 18 Jul 2023 15:42 UTC
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