Chat Mod to limit talking through bricks

[devildogelite]

I started working on this a few months ago and gave it up, came back to it today and fixed it in about 5 minutes. I modified the chat function so that a player has to be a certain distance away and there can't be bricks between you. Now this is the basic of what I want.

I'm trying to figure a way out so that if say a player is standing against like a fence wall and can't see the person they can still hear them. I have no idea how to go about doing this though. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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[Advanced Bot]

Package serverCmdMessageSent(%client,%message). Parent it, then use InitContainerRadiusSearch(%centerPos ,%radius ,%masks) in the function. Such as:

initContainerRadiusSearch(%client.player.getHackPosition(), 12, $TypeMasks::PlayerObjectType);
while(isObject(%searchObj = containerSearchNext()))
{
//Do stuff
}


You may need ContainerRayCast(%startPos,%endPos,%masks) to see if there is some kind of wall, too.

[devildogelite]

This is what I have so far and it works. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if the person is on the other side of a tall fence they can't hear them. I have no clue how to get around that. Like the only way would be doing pathfinding or something I think.

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package Chat
{
function serverCmdMessageSent(%client,%msg)
{
if(!isObject(%client.player))
return;

%position = %client.player.getPosition();
InitContainerRadiusSearch(%position,30,$TypeMasks::PlayerObjectType);

while((%targetObject = containerSearchNext()) !$= 0)
{
if(!ContainerRayCast(%client.player.getEyePoint(), %targetObject.client.player.getEyePoint(), $TypeMasks::FXBrickObjectType))
{
messageClient(%targetObject.client,'',"\c4[Local] \c7" SPC %client.clanPrefix @ "\c3" @ %client.name @ "\c7" @ %client.clanSuffix @ "\c6:" SPC %msg);
}
}
}
};

[$trinick]

I'm sorry, I'm a little confused on what you're trying to accomplish. What I'm gathering from what you're saying is that you want to calculate how many steps it would take to get to a receiving player from the broadcasting player, and not send the message to them if they're too far. That would be extremely resource intensive for Blockland because you'd need a pathfinding algorithm with dynamic nodes. I'm not sure if that's actually what you're looking for though.

[devildogelite]

I'm having trouble wording what I want but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work. I wanted to make a local chat that doesn't go through walls, but it ends that a player can only chat with another if they are in line of site. I figured the only way to do it would be using some sort of pathfinding that can only go so far before it stops.

[$trinick]

It sounds like you already have what you want then, but you seem to be upset that you can't talk through fences (which are walls). That's why I'm confused.

[Zeblote]

He probably wants you to be able to talk around corners and over low walls if there's no roof (like a fence)

[$trinick]

He probably wants you to be able to talk around corners and over low walls if there's no roof (like a fence)

That's why I was asking if he wants pathfinding, but then he says stuff like "a player can only chat with another if they are in line of sight" which even a fence would obstruct.

[devildogelite]

In something like this the chat wouldn't work for them. They're not actually separated by a wall or anything, they're just not within each other's field of view. I want it to work where something like this wouldn't stop the chat from going through.

That's why I was asking if he wants pathfinding, but then he says stuff like "a player can only chat with another if they are in line of sight" which even a fence would obstruct.

If I said I wanted it to work line of sight only than I made a mistake, right now it only works in line of sight it was I meant.

[$trinick]

They appear to be in each others field of view to me.

[devildogelite]

They appear to be in each others field of view to me.

They're not

[Valcle]

so why not use a combination of raycasting and seeing if the receiver is inside the senders field of view (and vice versa)?

[devildogelite]

so why not use a combination of raycasting and seeing if the receiver is inside the senders field of view (and vice versa)?

I guess I worded this all poorly, I want them to be able to talk to each other in a scenario like that picture. Currently they have to be in line of site of each other which I don't want. But I don't want it to be able to go through walls of like a house or something. Right now if someone is around a corner from someone they won't see the chat which I don't want.

[Xalos]

Short version: It's not possible.
Long version: It's possible if you make builders put chat relay bricks, but most of them won't.

[Zapk²]

Why not so a second raycast a few units above the first?

It's entirely possible