Hi everybody

I would like to show a star on players of a specific team in the compass. It's like when somebody gets the flag in the ctf gametype, you see on the compass who have it and where he moves, only that i want to show a star, and all the time, not when something specific happens.



I searched at the ctf.gsc but didnt find nothing helful to make my own compass elemnt.

Does anybody have an idea or knows how to do it?

Yours truly

well if u want to go with the way every other zombie server has then take a look in a zom.gsc, but a wise friend of mine told me that it only sets on 15 players because thats all it only allows so only 15 players can be seen on the compass for you sir nothing more.

Maybe looking at the sript where the green spires are programmed, which show your teammates in the compass.

I searched for it but didn't find anything, does somebody know where it is?

The green player triangles are hard-coded - they are not editable (except changing the image file which affects all of them).

The compass icons are called objective icons - look in ctf.gsc for how they are used there. Search for objective and check out the functions in the script docs beginning with objective_

You can set an icon to appear at a coordinate position in the map and get it to track a player by having a loop that updates it location.

Okay i will try, now i got that the objective appears when a allied spawns... xD. Need to make the origin update and that only axis see this objectives.

I got it to update, and to delete if the player is not alive (with a simple if), but, if the player disconnects, the objective still is there. How to avoid this?

Use a seperate thread to monitor when the player disconnects.

e.g.

OnDisconnect()
{
	self waittill( "disconnect" );
	objective_delete( self.objID );
	/*
		any other code 
	*/
}

And from where should i call this thread?

There is an other problem now. This position update "for" makes that the player is not able to change weapon, team, and the next two options apart from exiting the game.

		for(;;)
		{
			objective_position(num, self.origin);
		
			if(!isAlive (self) )
			{
				objective_delete(1);
				return;
			}
		
			wait .3;
		}

Why?

Where are you running the code?

It should have its own thread so it does not interfere with any other script.