[TF2] Annotations
 

Annotate your game world: place inspiring messages, help newbies find that well hidden side route or just humiliate your opponents.

Screenshots:
Commands:

• sm_annotate <time> <message> - Creates an annotation that lasts for a specified time (-1 for infinite) (Flag: Chat)
• sm_deleteannotation - Deletes the annotation where you're looking (Flag: Chat)

Cvars:

• sm_annotate_version - Version
• sm_annotate_min_dist - Sets the minimum distance that an annotation must be from another annotation (default: 64)
• sm_annotate_view_dist - Sets the maximum distance at which annotations will be sent to players (default: 1024)

Changelog:

1.5:

• Complete rewrite
• Annotations will no longer repeatedly fly in to the screen
• An annotation will no longer block other annotations being placed after they've disappeared
• Client console is no longer spammed with sound errors
• Numerous other improvements and tidy-ups

1.41:

• Fixed a handle leak

1.4:

• Fixed an issue where annotations would not last longer than 10 seconds
• Changed the args on sm_annotate to <display time> <message> - You no longer need quote marks around the message when it's longer than 1 word.
• Binded sm_deleteannotation to its correct command
• Fixed an issue where annotations would not update when there were fewer than 5
• Added sm_annotate_min_dist - Sets the minimum distance that an annotation must be from another annotation (default: 64)
• Added sm_annotate_view_dist - Sets the maximum distance at which annotations will be sent to players (default: 1024)

1.3:

• Annotations are no longer sent over the network when no one can see them
• Annotations are now processed in batches of 5, once per second

1.2:

• Annotations can no longer be placed within 64 units of each other
• Annotations can now be deleted with !deleteannotation (!deleteannotation_perm for the SQL version)

1.1:

• Annotations now refresh every 5 seconds, if the annotation is not in the client's LOS or within 1024 units, it will not be displayed.

1.01:

• Fixed an issue where only one annotation would appear at any given time.

1.0:

• Initial Release

Credits:
Spaz & Arg for the positioning code - Taken from [TF2] Pumpkins

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

useful thing. thanks

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

What happens if you set the timer to 0, does it stay there, or does it not show up?
Ah well I'll test it myself

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

0 makes it last like 1 second, -1 on the other hand seems to stay there
funny thing i did was annotate a pit "Free Hats"... :twisted:

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

If there would be a way to add this permanently into a map, it would be incredibly useful.

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

I made this a while ago: http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=15060 - But it didn't work to my liking at the time so I didn't release it here, Once I work out the format of visibilityBitfield I'll fix it up and release it. - Till then the code/database it uses for making permanent annotations is probably the best way to do it.

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

Ah excellent, thanks Geit! I think making and releasing a working version of that would be much more attractive to people.

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

Just put this together quickly. Simply make a database cfg called "annotations" and run the plugin (command is sm_annotate_perm <message> and cvar for changing their lifetime is sm_annotate_length - They will show at the start of every round), hopefully it should save all annotations to the database, but I haven't tested it. - Also, you'll have to delete annotations through the Database as I haven't reworked the command that deletes annotations for the event format.

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

Thanks, I'll give it a look. I'm going to make a quick edit to the .sp though to make it use the "default" database. One suggest I would make would be to make the plugin look for the "annotations" database, and on failure, try to use the "default" database. That way people (like me) who use a single database for all SourceMod stuff don't have to make a new entry in their databases.cfg and then restart the server.

Re: [TF2] Annotations
 

I'm not sure if the database version of the plugin you posted is working, but it's a bit off topic so I'll PM you about that.