give an area a name

[Wezelkrozum]

How can i give an area a name. So That you can see where your fireteam is.

exsample:
coördinates: B,3 change in Main Gate

[nUllSkillZ]

As far as I remember it’s a feature of ET-Pro:
ET-Pro Forum

[Wezelkrozum]

ok thanks

[Flippy]

I think it’s done with func_location or target_location or seomthing like that…

[murka]

strange, i thought it was something to do with a .dat file that has coordinates and names.

okay a random map… bremen_b2 has a file named bremen_b2_loc.dat under maps.
it contains co-ordinates and names(some have @ at the end)

1699 158 128 "Alley"
1447 -52 128 @
-2103 -2141 128 "Allied Spawn"
-1666 -2144 128 @
-1765 -813 133 "Arches"
-2128 -786 128 @
-2094 -994 122 @
846 -1055 160 "Axis spawn"
534 -635 160 @

those few co-ordinates in each one seem to be too little, so i guess they relate to some box in the map.

edit:o, now i get it.

[DerSaidin]

You can do it with a location .dat file (theres plenty of examples around)

And I think you can also do it by placing name entities around the map. I haven’t done it that way though. I just go ingame and use b_debuglocations (or whatever that debug cvar is) then make the locations, save them, and put them in the pk3 (not as an override).

[antman]

It’s explained in the WolfWiki:

A target location is a non-brush entity that allows a mapper to specify a name for a certain area of the map. Unless a player has configured their client to do otherwise, these names will be used instead of map coordinates in both the fireteam box and teammate chat messages.

Using these entities will cause a warning to be displayed on the server console for every entity in the map during map load on etmain, shrub, and etpub (although etpub is actively developed, and this may change in the future.) The map will still run, unaffected, though. To use them with GtkRadiant, first make a file called et_entities_location.def in the scripts directory of your mapping install. Then, open the file in notepad and paste the following in the file, and then save.

[Wezelkrozum]

i know how i can create a entity that’s called target_location but what is the key for give this locations names?