Quality of Life

Sign Artist

Players usually just say /sil. Put custom images on signs and picture frames three ways: an image URL, typed text, or an item icon. Look at the sign you want to edit, then run the command.

Three modes: URL, text, icon VIP and up Capped to protect client FPS

Restrictions

Sign images are one of the biggest client FPS killers on Rust. Every nearby player has to download and render them, so a dense cluster of custom signs can tank frame rates for anyone walking by. Our version of this system is customized specifically to keep that under control.

Access is limited to VIP or higher (VIP unlocks at about 20 hours of playtime). That stops brand-new throwaway accounts from carpeting a neighborhood with images before they stick around.

There are also per-player and per-area caps on how many Sign Artist images can exist. Even if you personally still have room, a nearby base that is already loaded with images can block more placements in that spot. The game will tell you when you hit either limit. Related deployable guidance is also listed on the Deployables page.

The two files below show the impact. Left: a Nightmare raid base with very few pictures. Right: a tiny Easy raid base packed with Sign Artist images. Easy bases are tiny and have few deployables, yet the file size difference is huge.

Nightmare raid base file size with few sign artist images — Nightmare base, few pictures: small file.

Easy raid base file size with many sign artist images — Easy base packed with images: huge file.

Image URL

From A Link

.png and .jpg links work best

/sil URLPaste the image at the URL onto the sign you are looking at

Use a direct image link from an image host that allows hotlinking. Paste the URL in-game with /sil (Ctrl-V).

Sign Artist URL example — An image pulled straight from a URL.

Text

Typed Text

Size and colors are optional

/silt "text" fontsize font-color-hex bgcolor-hexWrite text on the sign

Font size, font color, and background color are optional. Colors are hex values without the #. Sites like htmlcolorcodes.com make picking those easy.

Example: /silt "Hello World!" 48 00ff00 000000 renders font size 48, lime green text, black background.

Sign Artist text example — Text rendered with /silt.

Icon

Held Item

The last letter is an i (eye)

/siliPaste a picture of the item in your hand onto the sign

Hold any item in your hand (or put a non-wieldable item on the hotbar and scroll to it), look at the sign, and run the command. It pastes a picture of that item onto the sign. Skinned items work too.

Sign Artist icon step 1 — Hold the item, look at the sign.

Sign Artist icon result — The item's icon, painted on.

Restoring A Sign

Undo

Fat-fingered a URL? No problem

/silrestoreRestores a sign's previous image if you need to undo a change

Command Quick Reference

All Four

Look at the sign first

/sil URLImage from a link

/silt "text" size color bgText on the sign

/siliHeld item icon

/silrestoreUndo the last image change

Keep it tasteful; the Explicit Content policy applies to sign images too. Questions? Ask in Discord.