Author Topic: Portal 2-like player indicator (Read 1480 times)

alex dude · April 13, 2014, 09:30:47 AM

In portal 2, you can show places where a player might need to go or interact with something. If someone could make a script which is bound to the middle mouse button doing this, that would be brilliant.

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n Ninja · April 13, 2014, 09:42:23 AM

Quote from: alex dude on April 13, 2014, 09:30:47 AM

In portal 2, you can show places where a player might need to go or interact with something. If someone could make a script which is bound to the middle mouse button doing this, that would be brilliant.

good idea, but if a spammer joined a server with this...
it'd be hell on the entire server

Renderman · April 13, 2014, 10:00:01 AM

Quote from: n Ninja on April 13, 2014, 09:42:23 AM

good idea, but if a spammer joined a server with this...
it'd be hell on the entire server

10 sec delay then

n Ninja · April 13, 2014, 11:56:32 AM

Quote from: Renderman on April 13, 2014, 10:00:01 AM

10 sec delay then

then it gets annoying if you look at the wrong thing

alpha16 · April 13, 2014, 12:35:10 PM

Quote from: n Ninja on April 13, 2014, 11:56:32 AM

then it gets annoying if you look at the wrong thing

It'd probably be best to have it be annoying than allow it to be spammed.

n Ninja · April 13, 2014, 04:52:05 PM

Quote from: alpha16 on April 13, 2014, 12:35:10 PM

It'd probably be best to have it be annoying than allow it to be spammed.

true dat

TristanLuigi · April 13, 2014, 04:54:02 PM

Better idea; 3 second cool down, and can only be seen by people with build trust.
EDIT: Server preferences for cool down and trust level would be nice. RTB or /indicatorCooldown and /indicatedTrustLevel.

Zeblote · April 13, 2014, 05:01:53 PM

Quote from: TristanLuigi on April 13, 2014, 04:54:02 PM

and can only be seen by people with build trust.

impossible and stupid

better idea, timeout of 100ms and ban idiots who spam it

TristanLuigi · April 13, 2014, 05:03:07 PM

Quote from: Zeblote on April 13, 2014, 05:01:53 PM

impossible and stupid

better idea, timeout of 100ms and ban idiots who spam it

Yeah, I guess without a client mod it would be really hard to pull off. But at least have some cooldown- 100ms seems a bit short. 1 second?

alex dude · April 13, 2014, 05:46:55 PM

Quote from: TristanLuigi on April 13, 2014, 05:03:07 PM

Yeah, I guess without a client mod it would be really hard to pull off. But at least have some cooldown- 100ms seems a bit short. 1 second?

It can just spawn a static shape or even just a simple model at the place they are looking at and play a default sound if it really needs one.
A 1-2 second cooldown sounds good, if a player is constantly doing it then you could just ban them anyway.

Zeblote · April 13, 2014, 05:59:15 PM

100ms should be enough for it to not cause lag. If someone is spamming it just ban them.

HellHound · April 13, 2014, 09:38:30 PM

This would be neat, but impractical in a way. I'm assuming the most use that this would get would be on TDM style servers, but how could you stop the enemies from seeing it?

Xalos · April 14, 2014, 12:25:43 AM

If someone modified the directional indicators of RSC, they could easily make something like this. It'd just require the client-sided component.

Klocko� · April 14, 2014, 03:51:29 AM

0.5 seconds I think would be good. Maybe a high-pitched sound of the robots can play when indicating stuff aswell?