Death Beam
 

Co-Coded By Dalto & Peoples Army

Death Beam:

This Will create a beam between victim and killer on death . This Was a Mani Admin Plugin Feature . The colors are customizble by ConVars , and theres a menu to enable and disalbe the beam for clients.


Commands:

• deathbeam - Console Cmd To Bring Up The Menu

Cvars:

• death_beam_on 1/0 1 is on 0 is off
• death_beam_red 0-255 amount of red in the beam
• death_beam_green 0-255 amount of green in the beam
• death_beam_blue 0-255 amount of blue in the beam
• death_beam_alpha 0-255 amount of transparency in the beam
• death_beam_default_setting 1/0 players default settings

Installation:

• Install smx and sp like any other sourcemod plugin
• Install the death_beam.games.txt in your gamedata folder

Change Logs:

• 08-12-07 -0.1 - Originol Release
• 08-20-07 - 0.2 - Update By Dalto
• 08-22-07 -0.3 added cvar for players defualt settings
• 4-11-08 - 0.4 added update by dalto

Any Ideas Are Welcome


Co-Coded By Dalto & Peoples Army

Re: Death Beam
 

Jeas, another cracking addition. Do you ever stop for sleep between coding these up 'Peoples Army' ?

Re: Death Beam
 

i drink alot of coffee :shock:

Re: Death Beam
 

LoL, me too ^^ btw: good addon for a server :wink:

cya

Re: Death Beam
 

LOL. thanks :)

Re: Death Beam
 

You ar no.1 !! Been waiting for this one to completely get rid of mani.

Thanks!

Re: Death Beam
 

Does this remember the clients settings?

I mean; I personally don't like deathbeams but others on my server do, so if I elect to disable it will I have to keep disabling it at every map change or will my choice be remembered?

Re: Death Beam
 

Thanks :up:

me and Dalto worked on this together .


there is nothing to save over map change . maybbe we can wor ksomething into it .

Re: Death Beam
 

Is it possible to store those settings on client side?

Quakesounds, for example, stores it's settings server side in a textfile, but I think it would be much more useful, if it's somehow stored on the client. If one decides to disable stuff on one server I'm pretty sure he will also do on other servers.

Re: Death Beam
 

Okay, so you both have to share the 1st place ;)

Re: Death Beam
 

I don't know if this is possible. The amount of things that Valve lets you do to the client is pretty limited.

Storing the settings on the server is definitely possible.

Re: Death Beam
 

cool!!

Re: Death Beam
 

thanks:)


trying to save things on a client is hard to do , but it is possable to store the clients settings on your server.

Re: Death Beam
 

Works a treat! Loving the patchy line too!

Matt

Re: Death Beam
 

thanks , yeah some of the temp ent beams in source look kinda weird :grrr:

Re: Death Beam
 

got an error...

the Alpha Setting is not working

edit

and the color codes are not really working..

RGB 253,120,0 should be orange like this ▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌but it is green

maybe cos the alpha error

and the beam looks dashed, would be better visible, and nicer, when its straight

found the right cvar in the *.sp file

it is
tried to change the line with the glowcolor.vmt ^^ but its not really looking better...

not the best plugin ^^ should be reprogrammed... and need to get better realisied...

Re: Death Beam
 

well first , if youve ever takin a close look at any temp ent beams for source , youd notice they all have a swash , they look like their spinning , take a look at the pictures from the wiki for sorucemod

http://wiki.alliedmods.net/TempEnts_...od_SDKTools%29


the beam is "blueglow.spr" , hence the blue glow is not gonna give you the color you expect . there are no errors , this code is flawless , if you dont like it feel free to code your own .

Re: Death Beam
 

Hey Peoples Army,

Just noticed while updating to 1335, that I get the same message in the console:

That said it still works a treat and having the trans and colour settings are just 'nice-ities'

Re: Death Beam
 

It is death_beam_alpha not death_beam_trans.

Re: Death Beam
 

Ah that would explain it then :up:, although i'm sure I just copied and pasted the cvars :wink:

Re: Death Beam
 

:cry:sorry mogiex , i had it wrong on the main dowload page . fixed it ,

Re: Death Beam
 

np =)

Re: Death Beam
 

:up:

Re: Death Beam
 

Here is our latest version of the death beam plugin.

Changes:

• Added persistent settings
• Made the beam solid
• The color setting should work properly now

Re: Death Beam
 

Both versions still have errors. It's in your definre.

Re: Death Beam
 

What kind of errors and what do you mean in the define?

Re: Death Beam
 

Think bugs means using PLATFORM_MAX_PATH instead of MAX_FILE_LEN

Re: Death Beam
 

yea that version hasnt been fully tested yet , thats why its not posted in the main thread yet . so when its done well post in the ain thread as an update :wink:

Re: Death Beam
 

Here is an update: Version 1.0.1

Changes:
Fixed the bug referenced by ^BuGs^ above.

Re: Death Beam
 

new version has been added to the main page . dalto did all the work on this update , gj buddy :up:

Re: Death Beam
 

Is there also a chat command?

/deathbeam or !deathbeam

Re: Death Beam
 

Yes, that is it exactly

Re: Death Beam
 

Hello,

I love this plugin but I find alot of people who play on our server do not like deathbeams. Is there a way to have this default to off for everyone and you have to turn it on through /deathbeam if you want to use it?

Thanks,

KippLitz

Re: Death Beam
 

Here you go, version 1.1.

death_beam_default_setting is the name of the cvar. Set it to 0.

Keep in mind, it will only effect players who haven't been to you server since you installed death beam. All other players will have it saved in their settings.

Re: Death Beam
 

we added a menu so poeple can turn it off .

Re: Death Beam
 

Perfect. Thanks. Now, is there a way to delete whatever data file has everyone's current settings and start from scratch? I looked and around and cant seem to find anything.

KippLitz

Re: Death Beam
 

added new version to the main page , update by dalto .

Re: Death Beam
 

Yes, delete the file in addons/sourcemod/data that has deathbeam in its name.

Re: Death Beam
 

Looked several times to make sure I am not missing it, but I do not have any addons/sourcemod/data 'data' folder. Looked in all the rest and cant find it. Advice?

Thanks,

KippLitz

Re: Death Beam
 

addons/sourcemod/data/beamusersettings.txt