[Snaggle]

Originally Posted by DarthNinja Custom items?

Sorry, custom names.

ToDo: Add support for custom names (PlayerX has found: A Pumpkin)

[DarthNinja]

Originally Posted by Snaggle I know you're busy with other projects at the moment, but do you have an idea if and when you'll be able to work on the custom items?

I was waiting for a way to set colors that I was told Top Men would be adding, but it looks like that wont be for a while yet.
I'll add custom name support in a quick update later.

[DarthNinja]

Version 1.5.0 Released!

V1.5.0 Custom item name/method text support!

Now you can do this


And this:

[Professor Chaos]

This is great! Thanks.

The only thing it lacks is the ability to specify color when sending the command, I.E. /sm_fakeitem2 @me "has found:" "A Reason to Live" "Yellow/found"

[Snaggle]

Not possible, it'll use the colour of whatever the last item found was.

[DarthNinja]

Originally Posted by DarthNinja I was waiting for a way to set colors that I was told Top Men would be adding, but it looks like that wont be for a while yet. I'll add custom name support in a quick update later.

Originally Posted by Snaggle Not possible, it'll use the colour of whatever the last item found was.

Correct

If you really want to use another color, you can use sm_fakeitem to fire the event with whatever color, then if you use sm_fakeitem2 directly after, the color will be the same.

[moxie2020]

Originally Posted by DarthNinja Correct If you really want to use another color, you can use sm_fakeitem to fire the event with whatever color, then if you use sm_fakeitem2 directly after, the color will be the same.

Just curious, How are you getting it to use the other valves custom colors? I thought Valve had made this difficult.

If its not how would I go about adding said colors to something like Tsunami's Advertisements...

[moxie2020]

Is it just the item quality that does this?

[DarthNinja]

Valve uses a single placeholder value on the client for all the item color codes. The place holder is only updated when the item_found event is fired and it uses the color that matches the quality of the last item "found".
If you try to print text and the placeholder has never been set (ie, the client hasn't seen an item_found event yet), the text will appear black.

So what this means is that while you can use the item color-code, the item color that is printed currently cannot be controlled.

[moxie2020]

Originally Posted by DarthNinja Valve uses a single placeholder value on the client for all the item color codes. The place holder is only updated when the item_found event is fired and it uses the color that matches the quality of the last item "found". If you try to print text and the placeholder has never been set (ie, the client hasn't seen an item_found event yet), the text will appear black. So what this means is that while you can use the item color-code, the item color that is printed currently cannot be controlled.

So in order to use purple. Some one would of had to get an unusual item drop otherwise it would appear black.