Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[mysquirrel]

Yeah, I need it sometime to meet with People in the "Hey, I'm that Guy who is Talking come to me" way.

Could you replace certain Icons like the Detective ones with some kind of Blue Hat Icon?

[worbat]

It's handy when looking for people, but being able to talk when disguised would be a real bonus.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Yeah, I need it sometime to meet with People in the "Hey, I'm that Guy who is Talking come to me" way.

Yes, I don't mean "do you need them at all", the question is more: is it worth the effort to customize them.

[Darkest_97]

I think its definitely worth the effort when it comes to the disguiser.
Maybe traitors could have the option to toggle it? Or everyone rather. Its not really a necessity its just helpful for finding people.

[JoTheShmo]

I can't make it only show up for people nearby or something, because I'm just overriding a texture.

Actually, you can make a texture that fades with distance.
There's a good tutorial here
You can even make multiple levels of fading, so within... say... 10 feet, it's perfectly visible, then kinda transparent up to 50 feet, then barely noticeable even further, until you can't see it from afar.
That could be really cool.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Actually, you can make a texture that fades with distance.
There's a good tutorial here
You can even make multiple levels of fading, so within... say... 10 feet, it's perfectly visible, then kinda transparent up to 50 feet, then barely noticeable even further, until you can't see it from afar.
That could be really cool.

Nah, that's an ugly hack that abuses mipmaps, results might well differ between players who use different graphics settings. Fine for a spray, but not reliable enough for this purpose.

[C.Mong]

How about:
-Make the voice indicator somewhat transparent.
-A cvar to disable voice indicators completely
-A cvar to disable voice indicators for disguised players

[Darkest_97]

So Bku is this supposed to happen, or is it just my computer being crap?
I can see the teleport effect through walls, it shows the entire effect.
You can see the feet, i finally got a picture of it.
http://i978.photobucket.com/albums/ae270/Joey0977/tele.jpg

[Bad King Urgrain]

I think you've been the only one to report it, and I've never been able to reproduce it, so perhaps it is related to your computer (or a specific driver version etc).

Do you know what directx level you're running at in gmod? I think the video settings menu shows this.

[Darkest_97]

Gmod sets it to dx 8 by default. Ive changed it to 9 but my fps is like nothing and i cant play.

Edit: Also the magneto stick is acting kind of wierd. I was on the green boxes in the back of that big room on canyon. Theres 4 barrels along the wall. If you get on top of the green box, crouch and grab the barrel it sends it flying at like 300 mph up.
Ive also gotten killed by picking up a barrel because it flew at high speed into my face.

[Darkebrz]

Discombob jumps are beautiful. You can literally get across an entire map (easily richland and with some luck a map like fallout.)
It's great for a quick escape or to get to a good sniping spot.

For anyone that doesn't know how to do it, just hold a discombob, aim where you want to go, and for a ton of distance jump. Never throw the discombob.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Edit: Also the magneto stick is acting kind of wierd. I was on the green boxes in the back of that big room on canyon. Theres 4 barrels along the wall. If you get on top of the green box, crouch and grab the barrel it sends it flying at like 300 mph up.
Ive also gotten killed by picking up a barrel because it flew at high speed into my face.

The problem there is that I added a (very high) limit to the amount of force the magneto stick's constraint can take. This is good for mappers because you can't block physics traps anymore. The downside is that you will occasionally have glitches where objects fly out of your grasp. It's one or the other.

I've been thinking about a completely different way of doing carrying that would eliminate the whole aspect of holding a physics object that can interact with the world. Dragging around that physics object using a near-infinite source of energy is the cause of virtually every issue relating to physics in TTT. Obviously changing this kind of thing has far reaching effects, but it's something I may prototype and mess around with.

Discombob jumps are beautiful. You can literally get across an entire map (easily richland and with some luck a map like fallout.)
It's great for a quick escape or to get to a good sniping spot.

For anyone that doesn't know how to do it, just hold a discombob, aim where you want to go, and for a ton of distance jump. Never throw the discombob.

I rather like this kind of mobility in a game (once considered adding a grappling hook to TTT), but I suspect it opens up billions of map exploits. I'll have to check it out and see if I need to bring it more in line with how far a thrown discomb throws you.

[Darkest_97]

You cant see the weapon menu with the new sniper scope, although you can still change weapons. And i fairly sure you could see it with the old scope.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I know, a side product of how gmod renders things. I could work around it with some effort, but I don't consider it a good return on investment, as it only affects the rifle scope and nothing else.

[Fuffe]

I noted a couple of little details. When you press your zoom key to get the quick commands, it says "<person> is acting suspicious." when it should say "<person> is acting suspiciously."

And since there are often several traitors, it shouldn't say "<person> is the traitor!" it should say "<person> is a traitor!"

Just a couple of details, nothing that bothers much, but still.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I noted a couple of little details. When you press your zoom key to get the quick commands, it says "<person> is acting suspicious." when it should say "<person> is acting suspiciously."

I prefer the ring of the current one, and the form is quite common in practice.

And since there are often several traitors, it shouldn't say "<person> is the traitor!" it should say "<person> is a traitor!"

Agreed.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Just realized the first TTT release was a little over a year ago (2 sept '09).

[Charles445]

I still find it amazing how much the gamemode changed over that year.

[JoTheShmo]

I remember how much I hated the detective system with IDing bodies when it first came out.
Oh how silly I was.

[Darkebrz]

You can attach a poltergeist to yourself.