An alternative to echo?

#1

I know this question is not exactly about moding - its really is a scripting question. However, I have been unable to get any solid answers from other forums, and thought I would come here in hopes of recieving an “official” answer.

I have just finished working on a class selection script that uses echo to tell you what you will be spawning as next. However, I discovered that when you use echo on an online server it is easy to lose track of the message in the midst of all the other ones. Not only that, but there is a delay time before the echoed message is actually displayed. I don’t want to use say or say_team commands because toggle spam is evil. Is there some command I can use other than echo to display a message, the delay time echo has is really bothering me. Thanks!

(MadJack) #2

In scripting we use: wm_announce “Text Message” but I don’t know if it would work for that particular case.

#3

No, I don’t think that is what I am after. What I need to do is come up with a better way to attack the problem

(SCDS_reyalP) #4

This isn’t really a modding question, it is a player cfg question.

The simple answer is to play on ETPro servers and set the popup delay to 0. Then your echos show up instantly.

(faltytower) #5

Really wrong section to place this topic. Anyway, I think the command say_teamnl shouldn’t cause any problem (spam or otherwise).

(Rain) #6

say_teamnl will send it to all the players on your team, which it sounds like NULL wanted to avoid. (say_teamnl is the same as say_team, but the location is omitted.)