[Wilson [29th ID]]

Has anyone actually figured out how to disable the voice icon sprite hanging over player's heads?

And does anyone know how to disable the player's name on the right side of your screen when they are talking?

This is for something very extraordinary. It will be a working micarea plugin.

[XxAvalanchexX]

As far as I know this is all done client-side so you can't really block it, aside from not letting them talk at all.

[Xanimos]

But there has to be some communication through the server. Like a message or event or a pdata set so that the clients know which clients are doing what to show those things.

[XxAvalanchexX]

It's called in the client dll by the engine, not the server dll.

/*
==========================
HUD_VoiceStatus

Called when a player starts or stops talking.
==========================
*/

void DLLEXPORT HUD_VoiceStatus(int entindex, qboolean bTalking)
{
    GetClientVoiceMgr()->UpdateSpeakerStatus(entindex, bTalking);
}

[hmrsmpsn]

what is micarea?
is it that onley ppl near eachother can talk?

[SweatyBanana]

Hey I have an idea..How bout replacing the clients sprite of the mic with a transparent one?

[hmrsmpsn]

great idea! how?

[diamond-optic]

unless you find a way to replace it thru amxx.. replacing the icon will only block you from seeing whos using their mic...

and as far as i know theres no way to catch a sprite and replace it...

not even sure if you can catch when someone is using their mic anyway

[SweatyBanana]

yea and you could replace both sprites with blank sprites so they wont show..

which is kinda what he wants..

[Wilson [29th ID]]

Well here's the problem with that. I'm not sure, but let's say the sprite for that is called voiceicon.spr

Assuming a client does not already have voiceicon.spr, it is already in their GCF. This means I cannot make the plugin "download" voiceicon.spr because it won't overwrite existing files (it exists in the GCF)

So the client would have to download the blank sprite. And this still wouldn't prevent names from showing up on the hud, which is my main goal.

Any idea how to prevent that, even if I had to have the client download something?