would be nice...

[piterx]

would be nice if (by selecting it in the admin options) in the next version of mta there will be th possibility to chat only if u're near to another player....i mean....instead of the chat box would be funny if when someone speaks appears a bubble like in the comics...if it was so i could make a plan of attack and my enemies couldn't "hear" it

[Mike]

This could be done on this version with a (cpu intensive) mtama script.

I'll have a go at making it

[BurnZ]

kool

[Guest]

in a script? you sure mike?

[Slothman]

well, with mtama you could make a command to only speak to those nearby

but it wouldnt look like a speach bubble, it wouyld look like this :

[Mike]

I've already made it and it works well, just need to check something before I give it out

[Guest]

but you'd have to type / right? it can't just change the text in the chatbox can it?

[Mike]

yeah, at the moment it's /msg whisper and it PMs the message to everyone within 50 metres.

[piterx]

anyway.....coooooooooool!!!!

maybe the developers of mta will make it possible in the next version....it would be very very funny...

anyway....post your script when you've finished it...

[Slothman]

or you could pass it to Oli and let him add it to his borg collective of scripts, AKA GRS

[Jani]

lol omg nice 1 mike, btw olis script rox0rs

[Mike]

alias whisper.distance {
 var %x,%y,%z
 %x = $abs($calc($1 - $2))
 %y = $abs($calc($3 - $4))
 %z = $abs($calc($5 - $6))
 !return $round($sqrt($calc(%x * %x + %y * %y + %z * %z)),2)
}
on *:SIGNAL:mta.pm:{
 if ($3 == whisper) {
   var %a = 0
   unset %b
   while %a < $mta.maxplayers($1) {
     if (($whisper.distance($mta.location($1,$2,x),$mta.location($1,%a,x),$mta.location($1,$2,y),$mta.location($1,%a,y),$mta.location($1,$2,z),$mta.location($1,%a,z)) <= %whisper) && (%a != $2) && ($mta.name($1,%a) != Unknown)) {
       mta.msg $1 %a Whisper from $mta.name($1,$2) $+ : $4-
       %b = $iif($chr(44) !isin %b,$mta.name($1,%a),%b $+ $chr(44) $chr(32) $mta.name($1,%a))
     }
     !inc %a
   }
   mta.msg $1 $2 Message delivered to $iif(%b,%b,no-one)
   unset %a
   unset %b
 }
}

There ya go

P.S: Thanks to Oli for the distance calculations

[orappa]

I think I recall eAi saying that speech bubbles would be possible with Blue (although you'd have to code them yourself).

[Slothman]

yup, they said in blue that the diretx features are moddable, so this may be feasable (however kinda impractical)

[XcR]

C++ is the language used for most big programs, right? well if that is true then i dont see what isnt possible with blue

[Hawk_Boy]

you slothman how did u get moderator rights?

[Slothman]

through honesty, reliability, and a long standing dedication to the MTA community. or maybe my name was drawn out of a hat, I dunno.

[njr1489]

I don't know if this was mentioned before but maybe there can be a separate chatbox for pming people because sometimes people usually talk a lot on the chatbox so you miss what other people say. It should have a toggle option from chatbox to pm chatbox.

[Slothman]

other games have done fine with the "/msg"

if anything, the current pm system should be tweaked to allow wildcards, id numbers, and partial names.

[darkdreamingdan]

if u only want to talk to ur team, why dont u use clantag PM. of course, u'll have to have a tag. its included in GRS and u type:

/msg clan

eg.

/msg clan vcp hi

[Mike]

And /msg clan can also be used for wildcard names. E.g: /msg clan tali Yo Talidan

Edit: I also have another script specially for quick messages

on *:SIGNAL:mta.pm:{ 
 if ($3 == quick) { 
   mta.msg $1 $2 PM sent to $mta.name($1,$mta.getid($1,$4)) 
   mta.msg $1 $mta.getid($1,$4) PM from $mta.name($1,$2) $+ : $5- 
 } 
}

/msg quick

[[KFC]-ScharK]

And /msg clan can also be used for wildcard names. E.g: /msg clan tali Yo Talidan

Edit: I also have another script specially for quick messages

on *:SIGNAL:mta.pm:{ 
 if ($3 == quick) { 
   mta.msg $1 $2 PM sent to $mta.name($1,$mta.getid($1,$4)) 
   mta.msg $1 $mta.getid($1,$4) PM from $mta.name($1,$2) $+ : $5- 
 } 
}

/msg quick

Typing quick is just adding more to it! Let's say their name was Bob, all you would have to do is /msg bob!

[Mike]

But the majority of people that you send a message to have tags and other stuff by their name which isn't always easy to type quickly.