[splatt]

Ah, thanks. So who exactly has to fix this, you, SourceMod or the ZM devs? We really need this tracer on our server. May have to turn sprays off again because of all the inappropriate sprays.

[Lebson506th]

Anyone that knows which offset from the list that guy posted as an attachment on his bug.


He posted a list of offsets for ZM 1.2, i just don't know which ones to put in the gamedata file.

[PharaohsPaw]

Hello,

Lebson506th thanks for making/maintaining this plugin, it is nice to have the capabilities it provides.

Curious what you think about creating a command/CVAR to disable ALL spraying on the server when on and allow players to spray when off.

It's not exactly the same scope as this plugin (tracking and punishment etc.) though so maybe not appropriate.

Mani's admin plugin had this and we used mani's built-in cron feature to turn off player sprays in the late night hours. It would intercept the ?impulse 201? and display a configurable "Sprays aren't allowed right now" message.

The player would still hear the "pssssst-psssst" of spraying but it wouldn't actually spray their spray unless the cvar was set to allow player sprays.

Thanks in advance,
PharaoshPaw

[Lebson506th]

There is a CVAR you can set that is built in to the source engine that disables sprays.

It doesn't display a message, but it doesn't allow sprays to show.


I'm not sure exactly what the CVAR is though. I think its about decals or something similar.

[DontWannaName]

sv_allowupload 0, Wont let people to upload anything to the server like their spray I believe.

[Lebson506th]

That's the one.

[|GsX| GrimReaper]

I believe that would allow them to see there own spray and basically think they were spraying. So, essentially, they won't even know the difference. AFAIK, there is no other need for clients to upload to the server. If I'm wrong, it would be a 5 minute task to add blocking the function to the plugin though. Hook the event, run a check on the cvar setting, and either Plugin_Handled or Plugin_Continue, right?

[tcviper]

Why isnt there a way to not show that HUD msg all the time for every spray you come by? I just wanna use the menu if i wanna trace one.

Im talking about the : SPRAY SPRAYED BY: USER

[Lebson506th]

sm_spray_refresh (default: 1.0) - How often sprays will be traced to show on HUD - 0.0 to disable feature

[PharaohsPaw]

Originally Posted by Lebson506th There is a CVAR you can set that is built in to the source engine that disables sprays. It doesn't display a message, but it doesn't allow sprays to show. I'm not sure exactly what the CVAR is though. I think its about decals or something similar.

Thanks for the reply. We had a really bad rash of porn sprayers come through the other night where 3 admins basically spent all their time removing the sprays, banning the players, etc. pretty much ruined the gaming for us admins.

I had just put the plugin on the server that day or possibly the night before so wasn't quite familiar with it yet. We banned the players first then tried to remove the spray and that didn't work. I came back and read through the info here and apparently we should have just used the Remove Spray option and THEN banned them.

For now we've just set sv_allowupload to 0 to stop players from uploading their sprays, and purged the downloads/ cache dirs on all the servers.

I did a 'cvarlist' and grepped it for 'decal' because I thought there was a command for that too, something like sv_showplayerdecals or something, but if there ever was it doesn't appear to be there anymore.

Anyway thanks for the reply. With a little better understanding of how to use the plugin's features we'll probably start allowing sprays again soon.

I'll look and see if I can find what function would need to be hooked to stop a player spray. Pretty new to Sourcemod coding stuff.

Thanks again,
PharaohsPaw