[Monkwarrior]

Gents,

It would be so nice if there would be a plugin available which could display messages on any part of the screen in any format. The message would have to disappear after a variable number of seconds. These are usually called OSD's and are perfect for displaying any kind of messages: especially in games

I have found a website with such an OSD. The author even has allowed others to use his source-code (added as attachment).

My request:
Could one of you coders adopt this code and make a universal plugin which offers the following:

* show a variable message on any part of the screen (this is the new part)
* with a variable message colour (not high priority, but a nice to have)
* during a variable number of seconds (it can do this allready)

Most of the above can be done allready, but at the moment it's made for displaying a weatherforcast and repeats this forcast (obviously just an example).

It would be nice to be able to do this:
OSD ("this is a message from your admin", 8, 10-92283)
It will show the message for 8 seconds on the screen of the player with steamID 10-92283.

I am sure adjustments will be minor since most functionality is there allready. It would be so usefull in all sorts of HL2-games

Thanks for helping me out.

Merry Xmas, Monk.

ps http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/forec...=26#xx349967xx

[c0ldfyr3]

See, you cannot do that Server side.

Clients would have to have a plugin installed also.

[Monkwarrior]

I am aware of that.
I wanted to force the players to download this little adjusted program and let the server run it on the client with the parameters provided (using mattie for instance).

[c0ldfyr3]

You cannot make a client download a .dll file.

Client side plugins need to be downloaded and installed manually.

[Monkwarrior]

Are you sure, because the manni plugin can make the client download all sorts of files from the server it seems.
Did Valve block this because of security reasons ?

[devicenull]

Rotfl.. why would valve give server operators the opportunity to download trojans to a clients computer?

[c0ldfyr3]

Yes, all sorts of Materials, Sounds and Models, no dlls fullstop.

[Thraka]

What about some sort of shim server side that sits between the client and the server?

[c0ldfyr3]

Ok, for the slow amongst us lets re clarify a little bit.

YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING WHICH IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE CS:S CLIENT PROGRAM WITHOUT A CLIENT SIDE >> CS:S PLUGIN <<.

[Freecode]

Originally Posted by c0ldfyr3 Ok, for the slow amongst us lets re clarify a little bit. YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING WHICH IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE CS:S CLIENT PROGRAM WITHOUT A CLIENT SIDE >> CS:S PLUGIN <<.

uhhhhh i dont get it. Can u elaborate?