Making an entire team not to spawn

[rhide]

Hello!

I'm absolutely new to soldat scripting, but not to programming in general - so I hope to come up with some neat additions to the soldat servers soon

I have 2 questions:
1. How do I turn off the general chat, but still allowing team chat?
2. How do I make one team not spawn, when the other team is allowed to spawn?

Thanks in advance!

[chrisgbk]

I don't believe either of those are possible. You could kill players as they respawn perhaps, but it's a bit of a workaround.

[toRch]

Question is: what do you want to achieve not letting them spawn?/not allowing general chat?
If you explained that we could maybe help you.
Perhaps switching that specific team to spec or something like that would help?

[rhide]

Thanks for your fast answers

This was the best way I could think of solving my problem, but you may just have another that's better. So what I want to achieve:

If you have played Quake 3 there is a playing mode called Tournament. In tournament mode 2 players play 1v1 and the rest waits as spectators (spectators and players have different chats so specs cant spy). The competing players play one match, and after a winner is announced, the looser is placed last in the spectator que, and the winner stays to fight the next person in que. It quite reminds of the old game 'King of the hill'.

Do you think this would be possible to script?
The que could be solved with setting the frags on each player (thus using soldats own way of organizing players in the score table (the one you see when you press F1). But then there is the chat and the respawn.. maby you can think of something better than me?

Thanks for your help so far, and thank in advance!

[Avarax]

For the chat:

Use Command('/gmute ' + inttostr(ID)); on everyone. Then in OnPlayerSpeak, add a loop that is triggered everytime someone chats and sends that chat to all teammembers by checking teams with GetPlayerStat(ID,'Team') and then WriteConsole.


For not spawning:

Simply save their previous team in a variable and then set them to spectators (Command('setteam5 ' + inttostr(ID)) on death or whenever you want. Then, on another event, set them back to their previous team

[DorkeyDear]

The only way that I can think of of disabling chat would be gmute, but that also disables team chat i think.

And having a team lock system would work..
OnTeamChange(Id, Team: byte); begin if ((Team <> Lock[Id]) and (Team <> 5)) then begin Command('/setteam' + InttoStr(Lock[Id]) + ' ' + InttoStr(Id)); WriteConsole(Id, 'You are locked on ' + TeamNamebyNum(Lock[Id]) + ' team.', $FFFFFFFF); end; end;

EDIT:
Avarax: Doesn't the Text parameter mess up when a player is gmuted?

[KwS Pall]

when you gonna finally do it you can use my quake script (beta version released, but there are 2 bugs...)

[toRch]

EDIT:
Avarax: Doesn't the Text parameter mess up when a player is gmuted?

Yea thats true. I just tested it. Perhaps it's just me.
Next solution: when people join tell them they can't chat the actual way but rather need to /s <message>.
You could do that by drawtext. good luck!

[rhide]

Alright... sounds good to me

Thanks for all your support guys I'll try and get started - proboably a lot of newbie questions will pop up, but then again I know where to find you - thanks a lot!

Date Posted: January 08, 2008, 09:55:52 pmI've started out with this script now and my progress have been pretty much successful I must say, for the first soldat script ever.

I decided it's proboably easiest and neatest to use deathmatch-mode instead of teamgame, and spectators instead of 2 teams where only 1 play. Now here's my question: Is it possible to change the order of the people in the spectator list? I couldnt do it by simply changing team and then back again, is there perhaps another way?

Thanks in advance!

Date Posted: January 11, 2008, 04:13:08 amAh! The progress seems very good so far I've got a well working que system, announcements system, sudden death system - it'll soon be ready to release!

Thank you all for supporting me, and specially thanks to [eC] for the GREAT scripting manual!