AlliedModders - [HOWTO] Colored Player Names

Hello,

I made some functions to color all player names within a private message. The client name will be display in team colors while all other players will be displayed green.

Code:

stock color_player(owner_index, player_index, String: client_message[192]) 

{

        decl String:client_name[192];

        GetClientName(player_index, client_name, 192);



        new find_pos = StrContains(client_message, client_name, true);

        new String:temp_message[192];

        if (find_pos > -1) {

                new name_length = strlen(client_name);

                new message_length = strlen(client_message);

                new offset = 0;

                for(new i = 0; i < message_length; i++) {

                        new edit_pos = i + offset;

                        if (i == find_pos) {

                                if (owner_index == player_index) {

                                        temp_message[edit_pos]   = 3;

                                } else {

                                        temp_message[edit_pos]   = 4;

                                }

                                offset++

                          } else if (i == (find_pos + name_length)) {

                                temp_message[edit_pos]   = 1;

                                offset++;

                        }

                        new pos = i + offset;

                        temp_message[pos] = client_message[i];

                }

                strcopy(client_message, 192, temp_message);

        }

        

}



stock color_all_players(owner_index, String: message[192]) 

{

        new max_clients = GetMaxClients();

        for(new i = 1; i <= max_clients; i++) {

                new client = i;

                if (IsClientConnected(client)) {

                        color_player(owner_index, client, message);

                }

        }

}

To color the playernames you would call the function with:

Code:

color_all_players(client, message);

Remember not(!) to execute this function on every client message to display! We have made a very good trade-off to display this function only if the client player name is affected:

Code:

decl String:client_name[192];

GetClientName(player_index, client_name, 192);

if (StrContains(client_message, client_name, true) >= 0) {

        color_all_players(player_index, client_message);

}

Bye
Tobi