I was thinking about making a gametype called hide and seek, where one team, invisible on the radar, would hide and the other team would have to find and kill them. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make someone disappear from the radar. Is this possible? Has anyone ever tried this? Thank you for your help. :)

Last edited: Monday, November 28, 2005 at 7:48:42 AM

Hmmm... If there was a way to change your radar's backround color so that it had the same color as the dots, maybe. Other than that, I dunno

Exit the game. ;)

Or turn off your monitor... :)

Yes, that would be a funny gametype, one that kicks everyone. :P Anyway, maybe I could make the radar dot image file transparent, does anyone know where that file is in the Thinktanks folder?

Last edited: Monday, November 28, 2005 at 9:38:49 AM

Possibly the simplest way would be to disable the radar completely in the mod. No, I don't know how to do this. XD

If all you do is replace the radar dots it's an easy cheat. All I have to do is go in and edit my radar dots to be visible.

Yes, that would be a GREAT idea, disabling the radar! Thank you. Does anyone know how to do that (for server, not client)?

Theres a couple of.png files in ~gameclientui called radardot.png and radarbigdot.png. They are only 6x6 pixels. Radarbigdot is a little white circle on a transparent background. If you change the little white shape, then you change the shape of the dots. Maybe you could make a third one that is completely transparent, and make a script to switch between the two dots. (I feel so clever) :)

Nope we tried this before with misheal and his oddball (a fun game go nag him for it) an it didn't work.

Maby every one has a rader than you delite yours

Maybe u could change the size of the radar dots so no one can see them

Also easily gotten around. You either need to turn off the radar completely, or just stop it from putting the dots in.

Yes, I realize that I have to disable the radar, but I don't know how (see ^^^^^^). Is it just an easy thing that I am overlooking, or is it complicated scripting?

@Player - I was responding to DUDe; no slighting of you was intended. ;) And, as above, unfortunately I know nothing about actually modding maps, so I cannot tell you how to turn off the radar. I would ask Rx or MonkeeMan if they know.

Try this:

                                        

                                        RadarHud.visible = "0";

                                        

Put it on top of the mission file, if it works on a CREATE GAME server, try under dedicated, as it might not work in both. Only use it if it works in both :)

Last edited: Saturday, December 03, 2005 at 11:07:17 AM

Radarhud.visible = "0"; is only client side not server.

I know but I wasnt sure :)
Thats why I told him to try it in dedicated and if it didnt work, its client side...

PS: I'm still wondering how you did somethings in your Mods ;)

Isn't it impossible becouse the radar is client side? Or if everyone deleted their radars... :) Maybe if someone scripts a window like pause game or ACAS tool windows, but it cannot be closed and it blocks you from seeing the radar, possible Art?

^ Yup, possible.. But I don't think ppl would like to have to install a script to go to a server ;)

Hey AC! Good to see you. All right, because its not really feasible to disable the radar, what about an invisible tank? I tried a transparent skin, but it didn't really work... Also are you asking about my mods art?

EDIT: Also, since nobody has reslly looked in my other thread, could someone send me the survivor gametype script? It would be invaluable to me for making this game.

Last edited: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 at 1:26:38 PM

^ Invisible tank = really easy to make :) but buggy too.
Survivor Gamescript = I'm not the author, and the author WONT release it or give to anyone from what I understood

I have tried the invisi in the admin codes, but all it does is crash my game (or freezes up), no offense. Ooh dang that survivor script would REALLY help me learn scripting.

^ That code shouldnt be there... And it isnt :), you sure you aren't seein things? Try redownloading, as that is NOT suposed to be there!

Lol I probably have an older version. Does the newer version have more features or bug fixes? If not, and if its ok with you, I'd like to keep my old version :P.

It does have some fixes... I dont remember wich but it has some... :)

His newer version has less bugs in it, I should know I was the person who tested all his scripts.
Be sure it install Warfares updates for it, they add better banning capability's. ;)

You can never, EVER get the Survivor script, and AC has nothing to do with it. :) (it's Survivor peoples terratory (CUC= <Member and cool guy Warfare = main scripter and founder Cannedsplam= helper scripter and new appointed leader of survivor stuff) you are not getting it! ;)

All right I understand ;) , but can you at least tell me how to script 1 thing? All I want to know is how you can make everyone who joins the server blue. Thanks

EDIT: About the survivor script, I didn't want it to use in a server or anything, just completely to learn scripting. I know most of the basics of Torque Script, I just want to know all the functions, variables, etc. Specific to TT.

Last edited: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 6:59:24 PM

Believe it or not, there isn't much manual coding in the script. It's stuff thats already identify, just modified extensively. Here is the adding thing that you miight not know. About the teams:

Tankdat::onAdd stuff goes here (the function)
//say you wanted to make sure that after 5 people joined, the rest would be blue, or anything else:
%BlueCount = 2; // or whatever number of blue people you want before green teams are added
%count = ClientGroup.getCount(%BlueCount);
for (%i = 2; %i = %count)
{
%db.GreenIncrease(%db,%this,%tank)
}

GreenIncrease(%db,%this,%tank)
{
//increase of the green teams stuff, which should then loop to the blue, so that it continues untill the count is full

The Lesson Question (How to learn from the above):
How did I incorperate the clients on the blue team with the adding function so that it switched to green?

I don't think Art ever claimed to have any thing to do with the Surviver script. :o

No I didn't :)

BTW: The syntax on that "example" really su**s!

Last edited: Thursday, December 08, 2005 at 2:19:53 PM

@ cannedsplam: Thank you, that will help a lot. But how would I make it so the bots were switched to green instead of the people joining? If this is a really stupid question, sorry, I don't know a whole lot about scripting.

I'm just trying to give you an idea.

I know.... 8o (That's why it isn't for use)