[Chanz]

Attack Marker
Plan ahead, Command you team and Show where you are in an easy way!

Index:

Description
Screenshots
Requirements
Credits
Changelog
Installation
Configuration Helper
Ingame Commands
Important information
For developers or plugin approvers
Download

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:

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.

[danmon]

does this work with TF2?

[Chanz]

Yes that why it has the tag:

Plugin Game: Any

and in the description it says:

This plugin should work in any game!

;-)

[snipercup]

This works for me! I run:

PHP Code:

] plugin_print
Loaded plugins:
---------------------
0: "Metamod:Source 1.8.4"
1: "Mattie's EventScripts, http://mattie.info/cs, Version:2.1.0.281"
--------------------- 


PHP Code:

] sm version
 SourceMod Version Information:
    SourceMod Version: 1.3.6
    SourcePawn Engine: SourcePawn 1.1, jit-x86 (build 1.3.6)
    SourcePawn API: v1 = 4, v2 = 3
    Compiled on: Oct 30 2010 19:16:22
    Build ID: 3065:8036343199ca
    http://www.sourcemod.net/ 


PHP Code:

] meta list
Listing 4 plugins:
[01] SourceMod (1.3.6) by AlliedModders LLC
[02] SDK Tools (1.3.6) by AlliedModders LLC
[03] BinTools (1.3.6) by AlliedModders LLC
[04] SDK Hooks (1.3.0) by Tsunami 


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.

[OtterNas3]

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

[Chanz]

Originally Posted by OtterNas3 How to remove a marker?

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.

Originally Posted by OtterNas3 Do they disappear after a period of time?

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).

Originally Posted by OtterNas3 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)

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.

[Matheus28]

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

PHP Code:

value*GetTickInterval(); 


in OnGameFrame

[Chanz]

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.

[Matheus28]

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

[delirium_trigger]

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?