Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

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Description:

Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
You can place or remove a marker by holding down +zoom and then press +attack.
This plugin should work in any game!

Screenshots:

https://forums.alliedmods.net/attach...1&d=1290597195

Requirements:

• SourceMod 1.3 or higher.

Credits:

Thank you Berni, Manni, Mannis FUN House Community and SourceMod/AlliedModders LLC-Team
The beam ring code (halo) is taken out of funcommands: sm_beacon, so thank you unknown dev.

Changelog:

• v2.4.16
  • Recode and usage of SMLib.
  • Added command "sm_attackmarker"
  • Added hotkey: zoom + flashlight
  • Added hotkey: zoom + attack
  • Attack Markers can now be removed if you look into the circle if it and use the command or the hotkeys.
  • Added "sm_banmaker" to ban someone form using the markers.
  • Added "sm_unbanmarker" to unban someone.
  • Added "sm_removeallmarkers" to remove all makers.
  • Added checks to avoid marking of ghosts in l4d2.
  • Attack Markers will lock on targeted players.

• v1.0.4
  • Disabled timer when sm_attackmarker_enable is 0.

• v1.0.1
  • Small bug fix with the think timer.

• v1.0.0
  • Public release

Installation:

• Extract the attackmarker.zip into your mod dir (ex: cstrike,hl2mp,...).

Configuration Helper:
The following can be changed in <moddir>/cfg/sourcemod/plugin.attackmarker.cfg

sm_attackmarker_enable

Enables or Disables Advanced HL2 Movement (1=Enable|0=Disabled)

sm_attackmarker_button_hotkey
sm_attackmarker_button_place

The hotkey (default: +zoom) button needs to be pressed and hold down, then press the place button (default: +attack) in order to place or remove a attackmarker.

Try to avoid changing these since, players get confused if this is different on every server.


Default values:

Hotkey:
+zoom = IN_ZOOM = 2^19 = 524288
see a full list for values here.

Place:
+use = IN_USE = 2^5 = 32
see a full list for values here.

sm_attackmarker_start_alpha

This sets how visible the marker is at start. 255=fully visible; 0=fully invisible

sm_attackmarker_fade_per_tick

This number will be subtracted from the start alpha value each tick.

sm_attackmarker_marker_tick

This sets how often the marker is redrawn (this is the marker tick rate).

Ingame Commands:

For Admins:

sm_removeallmarkers [team]

removes all markers in the team the executing admin is in, using the team parameter will override this.

sm_banmarker <target>
sm_unbanmarker <target>

bans or unbans a player from attack markers.

For every player:

sm_attackmarker [target]

places a marker where you are looking at or if a target is given (players only) on the target is a attack marker.

Important information:

• BE SURE TO OVERRIDE THE OLD CONFIG FILE (plugin.attackmarker.cfg in your <moddir>/cfg/sorucemod/ folder)!

For developers or plugin approvers:

SMLib is a lib used by Berni and myself, this is a pre-release to provide the code for the GPL, drop it into your include directory.
If this lib is released the zip file is removed.

Download:

The provided plugin.attackmarker.cfg file is configured to enable this plugin by default.

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

does this work with TF2?

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

Yes that why it has the tag:
and in the description it says:
;-)

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

This works for me! I run:
On a steam synergy dedicated server on a windows system
I did edit the controls in your plugin as players arent assigned eighter red or blue, so they get all colors by default. The zoom button works for everyone. It's great.

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

Looks nice! Works ingame on L4D1(not tested onL4D2)

2 simple questions:
How to remove a marker?
Do they disappear after a period of time?

What would be cood:
Admins command to remove ALL markers
Admins unlimited markers (unlimited amount and time)
Non-Admins 1 marker (marker stay for XX seconds, change marker position when set on new target)


Cheers,
OtterNas3

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

Can't atm don't think its needed since normaly you don't have much time in a game to mess around with deleting markers.
sm_attackmarker_start_alpha

This sets how visible the marker is at start. 255=fully visible; 0=fully invisible

sm_attackmarker_fade_per_tick

This number will be subtracted from the start alpha value each tick.

sm_attackmarker_marker_tick

This sets how often the marker is redrawn (this is the marker tick rate).

example: start alpha is 100, fade per tick is 1 and tick is 0.5 (default values) then a marker is there only for about 50 sec (fading slowly away).
I don't want to add admin stuff because I don't see any advantage of it within the game.
But I may add a spam protection, for those little kids and an admin command to ban them from the markers.

If you bring up only some suggestions without a good reason, I don't see why to implement it. ;-) Don't get me wrong but I've developed this while playing with it, in l4d2. So its already optimized to be easy and less annoying.

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

What about instead of per ticks, you use per seconds? Just use in OnGameFrame

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

You didn't look into the code, did you? :)

I didn't use OnGameFrame, I've used a timer that repeads itself in the interval of sm_attackmarker_marker_tick. So if sm_attackmarker_marker_tick is 2.5, the markers are drawn every 2.5 sec.
So this plugin has a tick by itself.

English isn't my native language, so is tick the wrong word for that cvar? I know I've could have used sm_attackmarker_marker_interval, but its longer so I thought tick describes it and is short.

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

Oh well, when I see tick I instantly imagine OnGameFrame :p

Re: Attack Marker - Colored markers which shows your teammates where to attack.
 

Wait, but what if you have a weapon with a scope? Does that mean every time you scope a marker appears? That would be very annoying.

Maybe you should have a double command to activate the marker.
Maybe holding down the USE button and pressing the ZOOM button to show a marker?