Was wondering if there is anyway to change the size of the carriers icon while holding the flag. So it 's smaller and won't show out of walls and roofs.
Thanks for any help.

is the icon a (scripted) hud element?

if setshader was involved, then it could be scaled. But there might also be a cvar to change it...

I believe it is a hud element not sure where to find it to change. I would have thought it would be in the ctf.gsc file but not sure what element, I changed one thing and it just changed the icon size in the hud, not the icon above the player.
I don't know of any cvar that would change the size that would have been great.

I did find this.........not sure how to change tho...it has a setshader

ctf()
{
	level.allies_flag = getent("ctf_flag_allies", "targetname");
	
	if ( !isDefined(level.allies_flag) )
	{
		maps\mp\_utility::error("NO ALLIED FLAG IN MAP");
		return;
	}
	
	// get the mobile version of the flag
	level.allies_flag.mobile_model = getent("ctf_flag_allies_mobile", "targetname");
	if ( !isDefined(level.allies_flag.mobile_model) )
	{
		maps\mp\_utility::error("NO ALLIED MOBILE FLAG IN MAP");
		return;
	}
	level.allies_flag.mobile_model SetContents(0);
	
	level.allies_flag.icon = newHudElem();
	level.allies_flag.icon.alignX = "left";
	level.allies_flag.icon.alignY = "top";
	level.allies_flag.icon.x = game["flag_icons_x"];
	level.allies_flag.icon.y = game["flag_icons_y"];
	level.allies_flag.icon.sort = -50; // To fix a stupid bug, where the first flag icon (or the one to the furthest left) will not sort through the capping icon. BAH!
	level.allies_flag.icon setShader(game["hud_allies_flag"], game["flag_icons_w"], game["flag_icons_h"]);

	level.allies_flag.mobile_model hide();	
	level.allies_flag.team = "allies";
	level.allies_flag.hudnum = 1;
	level.allies_flag thread ctf_spawn_flag();
	level.allies_flag thread flag_think();

	level.axis_flag = getent("ctf_flag_axis", "targetname");
	
	if ( !isDefined(level.axis_flag) )
	{
		maps\mp\_utility::error("NO AXIS FLAG IN MAP");
		return;
	}
	
	// get the mobile version of the flag
	level.axis_flag.mobile_model = getent("ctf_flag_axis_mobile", "targetname");
	level.axis_flag.mobile_model SetContents(0);

	if ( !isDefined(level.axis_flag.mobile_model) )
	{
		maps\mp\_utility::error("NO ALLIED MOBILE FLAG IN MAP");
		return;
	}

	level.axis_flag.icon = newHudElem();
	level.axis_flag.icon.alignX = "left";
	level.axis_flag.icon.alignY = "top";
	level.axis_flag.icon.x =game["flag_icons_x"]  + game["flag_icons_w"] + game["flag_icons_spacing"];
	level.axis_flag.icon.y = game["flag_icons_y"];
	level.axis_flag.icon.sort = -50; // To fix a stupid bug, where the first flag icon (or the one to the furthest left) will not sort through the capping icon. BAH!
	level.axis_flag.icon setShader(game["hud_axis_flag"], game["flag_icons_w"], game["flag_icons_h"]);

	level.axis_flag.mobile_model hide();	
	level.axis_flag.team = "axis";
	level.axis_flag.hudnum = 2;
	level.axis_flag thread ctf_spawn_flag();
	level.axis_flag thread flag_think();
}

edited on May. 22, 2012 05:45 pm by sargehobo

Attached is the full ctf.gsc just incase I found the wrong section above.

well either way...

2nd and 3rd parameter of setShader is width and height

but scaleovertime should work as well using a transition time of 0.05, width and height 16

	level.axis_flag.icon setShader(game["hud_axis_flag"], int(game["flag_icons_w"] / 2), int(game["flag_icons_h"] / 2));

	level.axis_flag scaleovertime(0.05, 16, 16);

The scaleovertime doesn't seem to work, when I change the game type to ctf the map won't load.


Changing the 2 and 3 does adjust the height and width but of the HUD icon not the players headicon size.

Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong section of the ctf or maybe even the wrong script area.

Thanks for the help so far.

sargehobo writes...

The carry icon isn't an icon at all. It is a model. The only way to change it's characteristics is to completely remake it altogether.

The only other thing to do is to stop using a model for the carry indicator altogether, and switch to using a headicon. You wont have any control over its size as it is hard coded into the engine, but it wont show through objects (although I wasn't aware that the carry models showed through buildings) as headicons are objective shaders and hide when behind a solid object.

I don't currently have UO (or COD1) install on my rig so I can't show you any scripting changes, but if you post the UO CTF script I could do it from there.

Sevenz writes...

It's not a shader - it is a model. They didn't have waypoints in COD1/UO, so they got around it by using models. You can't change the characteristics of a model in UO unless you completely remake the model.

Here is the ctf.gsc file.

It's to large to post in a reply so I have to make it an attachement


Thanks for the help it's greatly appreciated.

I seem to have found a work around by creating new dds files. skins/ctf_flag_b_1.dds , skins/ctf_flag_g_1.dds , skins/ctf_flag_r_1.dds and skins/ctf_flag_us_1.dds. Made sure the file was at 256 x 256 and made the alpha channels the way I wanted.


If there's another fix I'd love to know but this works.

Thanks for the help