[INS] Message Of The Day - Insurgency

InsurgencyANZ · **Author**

Message Of The Day [MOTD] for Insurgency (2014)

CREDITS
woklex - Discovered their connmotd.smx plugin after making version 1.0 and due to similarities, added Enable/Disable Cvar to mine to differentiate the two for version 2.0.

DESCRIPTION
Displays the server MOTD window upon joining the server (as well as the default 5 lines of text in the loadscreen).
By default, the only MOTD you get, if set, is a few lines of text with no formatting, displayed in the bottom right of the load screen.
With this plugin, that same MOTD is displayed, but you can also have a large MOTD display as a window, after they spawn in and choose their team, class, etc.
You can also redirect the motd.txt to motd.html and upload that to a web server, to have a fully formatted MOTD, including images, links, videos, etc.

CVAR LIST

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sm_motd_enabled 1 // (1) Enables, (0) Disables

CHANGELOG

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Version 1.0 (16-04-15)
Initial Release

Version 2.0 (19-04-15)
Added g_CvarEnabled to turn on and off

INSTALLATION
Place "motd.smx" in "addons/sourcemod/plugins/" and make sure you have set "motdfile motd.txt" and then restart the server. Presto!
("plugin.motd.cfg" is automatically generated in "insurgency/cfg/sourcemod/" with the Cvar, if you want to disable it, change 1 to 0.)

If you wish to redirect to a HTML file, for extra formatting, then the following steps are important, otherwise feel free to skip.
Add "" at the top of the txt file and replace XXX with text to display in the load screen.
This allows you to have a text MOTD during loadscreen and full html window on spawn.
Otherwise, while in the loading screen, people see "<!DOCTYPE html>", etc.
Now create and upload your motd.html to a web server and point the link in motd.txt to it.
View the EXAMPLE section below for how I did mine.

EXAMPLE
The following is how I set up my MOTD;
In my "server.cfg" I placed "motdfile motd.txt".
My "motd.txt" has been attached, to see my comments that display in the loadscreen and how I redirect to "motd.html".
My "motd.html" can be found here -> MOTD (View Source for a better understanding/ideas)