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SyncR is a server-side SourceMod plugin for TF2 jump servers to assist rocket syncs.

Screencaps:

Technical demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqNsQ-erCd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVh711KY-h4

Details:

Learning and executing syncs are tremendously difficult due to lack of visibility of the rocket due to aiming and ping limitations on a remote server. To mitigate these effects, the player must adjust their timing but learning this is inconsistent and difficult.

This plugin provides three visual and one audio feedback mechanisms:

Visual
- The rocket time-to-impact is visualized via a colored laser emitted in front of the rocket (green to yellow and rose to red)
- Player body overlapping with an existing rocket changes the laser to blue, i.e. for triple syncs (cyan to blue)
- Crit rocket particles are attached to rockets launched sufficiently close to another
- Player predicted landing positions are visualized on the ground in the form a ring
- Distance to impact for the player and rockets are shown in a chart on the right of the screen
Audio
- Similar to crit particles, upon firing a rocket amounting to a close sync to an existing rocket, a crit rocket sound plays. Test trials indicate this feedback to be very satisfying for some learning players.

Server ConVars:

Code:

syncr_laser [0/1]         - Show colored laser pointer
syncr_laser_all [0/1]     - Show colored laser pointer of all players using SyncR
syncr_laser_hide [0/1]    - Hides laser pointers when looking up
syncr_chart [0/1]         - Show distance to impact chart
syncr_ring [0/1]          - Show landing prediction ring
syncr_crit [0/1]          - Show sync crit particle
syncr_sound [0/1]         - Play sync crit sound
syncr_rave [0/1]          - Toggles disco/rave lasers for bored admins

syncr_warn_distance [Default: 440.0]   - Imminent rocket impact distance to warn with red
syncr_threshold [Default: 30.0]        - Distance required between rockets for crit feedback

Plugin dependencies: SourceMod 1.6.3+, SMLIB, Updater (optional)

Usage:

SyncR can be toggled by a player using /syncr, while admins with the slay flag can toggle for a player using /setsyncr <name>.

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Coding is done by me while the JumpBOT recordings from the videos were done by Fractal and Aurora.

The project code is open-source GPLv3 and available to be tracked at https://bitbucket.org/GeominorAI/syncr

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