[FlaminSarge]

Awesome plugin! One request, can you make it so that root admins (or some given flag) can spawn annotations within 64 units of each other?
Also, is it possible to switch the message argument and the time argument so it could do something like:
bind f "sm_annotate 1 FlaminSarge was here"
(since binds use quotations already, it only prints "FlaminSarge" at the moment)

EDIT: I made a version that has a cvar for how close annotations can be, and also allows for binding. What you do is you type "/annotate <time>,, <message>"
The double comma plus space is what separates the time from the message, so to bind you do bind f "sm_annotate 12,, FlaminSarge was here. He is cool. Nope.avi"
Don't have another ",, " in there, it'll probably mess up.

[msleeper]

I made some tweaks and I got it to suit my needs perfectly. A few suggestions: make the refresh rate a cvar, I've found that 3 seconds is too high for my particular needs. Also, you could make the maximum distance to display either a cvar, make it something that can be modified per annotation, or preferably both. Have the cvar be the default range, and let the player select the annotation length in the command or in the SQL table.

For example in Junction outside of B, I might want to place an annotation that can be viewed by the entire room, but using that exact same range on an area in Dustbowl might be a little too high.

Aside from that, the plugin is extremely excellent. I'm testing it publicly now, I'll let you know what my players think!

[MrSaturn]

Any chance you can add the ability to attach annotations to players?

[msleeper]

Someone is reporting getting lag from this plugin.



The blip is light blue "events", whenever the plugin fires to refresh the annotations. Not sure if there is anything you can do about this.

[Geit]

Yes, I know of those and I meant to warn you about them... But I forgot. :<

Basically it's caused by having too many annotations in the map at once, I do have 2 simple fixes for it: 1) don't send annotations when no one can see them 2)Only process 5 annotations every second, spreading the load. Both of these are in use on one of the plugins I don't have released here, I'll itergrate them into these plugins sometime tomorrow, till then, keep it below 10 annotations per map.

EDIT: I'll try do it quickly now

EDIT 2: Applied the changes, changelog is in OP.

Originally Posted by MrSaturn Any chance you can add the ability to attach annotations to players?

This isn't a job for this plugin, but could be quite easily achieved using the general structure of the plugin.

I will get around to the other changes suggested when I have some time, which will probably be sometime inbetween now and Friday.

[Thraka]

Is it possible to set them to only be seen by the team that created them? I can find this may be a really simple way to have a heavy state he wants a dispenser at this location.

Or it would be great if the scout was allowed to point at the wall and put an annotate that states SNIPE HERE PLEASE! so the snipers on the team could see it and focus that area.

[Mecha the Slag]

Annotations disappear after 5 seconds, no matter who you are, where you are. Even with -1 as time.

Additionally you forgot to tie sm_deleteannotation to Command_DeleteAnnotation

[MrSaturn]

Originally Posted by Mecha the Slag Annotations disappear after 5 seconds, no matter who you are, where you are. Even with -1 as time. Additionally you forgot to tie sm_deleteannotation to Command_DeleteAnnotation

I am also having these problems.

[FlaminSarge]

Here's one that includes 1.3, and sets sm_deleteannotation to Command_DeleteAnnotation, but uses the command method I requested (sm_annotate <time><delimiter><message>)
The delimiter is a convar sm_annotate_delimiter with default setting ",, " so you would type or bind "sm_annotate 199,, I eat here. Move away."
Also includes a cvar for allowed distance between annotations, sm_annotate_distance. No SQL version :C
Max delimiter size is 16. Why would you want more...
Also default delimiter is cruddy, but nobody ever uses ",, " in a normal message, let alone annotations, so.... yeah.

[noodleboy347]

Originally Posted by Mecha the Slag Annotations disappear after 5 seconds, no matter who you are, where you are. Even with -1 as time. Additionally you forgot to tie sm_deleteannotation to Command_DeleteAnnotation