Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[Spongge]

And I can guarantee that you won't have any problems with alt tabbing if you use windowed mode like I do in every source game.

[Silverstream]

I use windowed mode yet I'm still experiencing this bug.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I run windowed and alt tab constantly while developing, no issues. All the spectator key handling (from making you spec your corpse for a few secs, to speccing a player when you press attack) is handled by the server, so I can't think of any way TTT could be ignoring your input after alt tabbing. It seems much more likely that Gmod/Source decides to ignore your input before TTT ever sees it. Of course, one wonders why it works again after you spawn for the next round.

Can you possess props when this happens?

[EpicBox]

Yeah, when I press Alt Tab my pc sends me out to my desktop, but the game's still running. So I usually avoid those keys.

And talking about the previous themes, I apologize: I was a bit rude, but you guys know that trolls's goal is freaking out people. So I apologize. And BKU, what do you think about the First Person Mode Death?

[Meta-Stick]

And I can guarantee that you won't have any problems with alt tabbing if you use windowed mode like I do in every source game.

Some people have problems when they're windowed, like never maximizing again while still hearing the sound.

[AndyTheGeeky]

On Source 2007 or newer, use the -sw -noborder flags to run the game in a borderless maximized window that should have no issues with alt-tabbing.  It also helps you with recovering from crashes where you would otherwise need to do a hard reboot, since you can still open and see the Task Manager to kill the process.

[Darkest_97]

Half the time i alt tab i crash, and every time i hit the windows key i crashed, so i took if off my keyboard.

Also found some bug:
Occasionally when your detective(no idea the circumstances), when you point at a body you checked, the little magnifying glass turns into the background of whatever square you clicked on in the body search menu.

[Manmax75]

The main problem that is occurring here is when you loose focus on the source engine window (alt tab out onto your desktop). Certain threads that run heavy operations may have overloaded resulting in crashes or unusual bugs because the system no longer treats it as a main process and doesn't give it all the memory and CPU required to sustain it and I do believe that when a player is respawned, its quickly re-authenticated so the client side threads are flushed and then refilled when spawned. How do I know this? I have done C++ before. So then why does this affect some people? Then you system cannot, or is not good enough to support multi and background threading.

[Bad King Urgrain]

The first person death thing is on my list.

Occasionally when your detective(no idea the circumstances), when you point at a body you checked, the little magnifying glass turns into the background of whatever square you clicked on in the body search menu.

Not fixable, Source/gmod glitch.

[EpicBox]

This is wierd... Everytime I Alt-Tab my pc sends me to the desktop, but the game doesn't crash. Wierd...

Also...

The first person death thing is on my list.

SWEET.

[phoenixf129]

i use -windowed -noborder. EXACTLY like fullscreen, but alt-tabbable with no lag. :)

[hayhay89]

When a traitor/detective buys something from context menu. That sound it makes can it be heard by other people as im getting reports from a few trusted people thay can hear it. I thought at one stage you changed it so people couldnt hear it.

[Meta-Stick]

When a traitor/detective buys something from context menu. That sound it makes can it be heard by other people as im getting reports from a few trusted people thay can hear it. I thought at one stage you changed it so people couldnt hear it.

Yea, I know for a fact you could hear it before. I don't know if sometime between now and then if he made it unhearable. I really can't remember. I've been rdm'd because a dude said, "OMG YOU BOUGHT SUMTHINZZ!!!! BANG BANG BANG!!!!" "Oh shit lolz, got his knife feels good man."

[hayhay89]

im positive he did make it unhearable in a previous update like 4 or so months ago. But unsure if it has been turned on again.

[Meta-Stick]

I'll go play some ttt right now, and mess around with a friend to see If I can get some results.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I never made it unhearable. The only way I can do so is by replacing the sound file. I can do this by putting it in TTT's content directory, so it won't replace the sound in normal gmodding. However, this is of course trivial to cheat around in an undetectable way (just replace sound file with your own). It seems preferable to have the sound for everyone so people learn to buy things when not near innocents, rather than have everyone think it's unhearable when to numerous people it won't be.

[Manmax75]

hmm does that mean if we replace the C4 sound file with something REALLY loud and distinguishable, we will actually hear it?

[Bad King Urgrain]

No, because the C4 sound is played by my code, so I can make its sound range low. The equip sound is played in the gmod code, which I can't modify.

[Bad King Urgrain]

New things in SVN:

Made flaregun scorch decals more reliable.
After death, you now spectate your ragdoll in first person for a few seconds before switching to third.
Continue vote popup after the round is now not shown until both fretta_votegraceperiod and ttt_fretta_votegracerounds have elapsed.
Fixed possessed-prop-glow showing up for spectated ragdolls.

There's no option to disable first person ragdolls as it's serverside. You can click at any point to switch to third, and when in third clicking will switch you to roaming as it always has.

ttt_fretta_votegracerounds (default 0) sets the number of rounds before the continue vote at the top of the screen should start showing up after a round. The default fretta convar fretta_votegraceperiod lets you set a delay in seconds after the map has loaded as well, but that's a hassle.

[Fuffe]

No, because the C4 sound is played by my code, so I can make its sound range low. The equip sound is played in the gmod code, which I can't modify.

If you can change the sound played, can't you also change how loud the sound is? And isn't the flashlight also gmod code? How'd you change that?