[Dragokas]

Description:

Show days (including hours, minutes, seconds) elapsed to the New Year

Note: this plugin is client's local time aware. Read requirements carefully!

Settings (ConVars):

- "sm_newyear_days_delay" - def.: 17 - How many seconds to wait to display message after trigger raised
- "sm_newyear_days_onjoin" - def.: 1 - Show message on client join first time (1 - Yes, 0 - No)
- "sm_newyear_days_onroundstart" - def.: 0 - Show message on round start (1 - Yes, 0 - No)
// Left 4 dead only:
- "sm_newyear_days_onfinalewin" - def.: 1 - Show message when team wins the finale (1 - Yes, 0 - No)

Requirements:

- GeoIP v2 by Accelerator
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=311477

- TimeZone API by Accelerator
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=311533

Warning: after installing GeoIP v2,
you should recompile ALL plugins that used original geoip include,
otherwise you'll receive very unusual server behaviour.

Installation:

- Follow above requirements
- compile plugin with new geoip.inc and tz.inc
- copy l4d_DaysToNewYear.smx to addons/sourcemod/plugins
- copy days_to_new_year.phrases.txt to addons/sourcemod/translations

Donate

Donates are very appreciated and welcomed for further inspiration, make me happy, and make next updates came out more often:
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- Ю.Money

[Dragokas]

1.1
Fixed negative number of seconds is displayed when countdown timer reach zero (Left 4 dead).

[Marttt]

Hey Dragokas, nice contribution,

As a suggestion for a new version, you can add some new features like:

- Add a welcome message phrase in the first X days of the year.
So every time someone enters the first X days of the year, they get a message. for example: "Happy New Year! We wish you an amazing [YEAR]"

- Add a countdown before the New Year (for example: 1 minute before the New Year starts sending a countdown message "New Year coming in 59 seconds!"

Then you might be able to convert this plug-in to some kind of configurable holiday plug-in, in the future.

Note: I hope everyone is enjoying the new year with their families, but sometimes people end up playing.

[Dragokas]

Thanks, I will think about that.

[LividBunny]

I'd like to make this work but the Timezone API is stalling me.
Any chance of a "detailed" instruction?

[Dragokas]

Ask TimeZone API author.