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Best way to go about player specific hintstrings

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Created on: July 15, 2015, 12:17:06 pm

Harry Bo21
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Currently im using a hud elem on each player and changing the variable that has the text in it

But id really like to use the normal hint system, but I also really want to be able to change the hint thats displayed to each player at will

example

Press F to build
Building
Press F to Take

but to player 2 would say

Need Parts

Press F to Take

whats the best way to go about this, ive never even looked into the hintstring code tbh

Reply #1 on: July 15, 2015, 12:55:24 pm

arceus
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i don't think there is a way to do it with the already put inplace system. it sucks and you should probably just stick with your current system or make a different one. i had the idea of changing the visibility with setinvisibleto and the other one with to triggers but those to functions are buggy as far as I've used them and only show for one of the players there set visible to.

Reply #2 on: July 15, 2015, 06:00:47 pm

are you wanting to do this with 2 players using the trigger at the same exact moment, if so then youll need to use multiple triggers and hide and show which trigger you want to be displayed to each player.

if its just one person using the trigger at a time then you can do it by doing a distance check between the player and the trigger and modifying the text depending on if they have a part or not.

Reply #3 on: July 15, 2015, 06:05:01 pm

DidUknowiPwn
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Create localizedstrings by following this:
STR_SOMETHING_0 -> "Press &&1 to do whatever on player 0"
STR_SOMETHING_1 -> "Press &&1 to do whatever on player 1"
etc.

In your trigger do this (make sure it's a trigger_radius)
self SetHintString (&"STR_SOMETHING_" + player.entity_num);
Would suggest hiding the trigger if there's no player touching it and then show after the string is set as it might change weirdly. Unless you set a blank string when no one is touching it.

Reply #4 on: July 16, 2015, 05:21:47 am

Harry Bo21
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Quote from: buttkicker845 on July 15, 2015, 06:00:47 pm

are you wanting to do this with 2 players using the trigger at the same exact moment, if so then youll need to use multiple triggers and hide and show which trigger you want to be displayed to each player.

if its just one person using the trigger at a time then you can do it by doing a distance check between the player and the trigger and modifying the text depending on if they have a part or not.

Yes, and i mean i want to avoid the need for extra triggers

I do it ok with a hud elem, its just if theres a hintstring in range too, both comes up, and theres a bunch of times that "could" happen, so i wanted something better

Reply #5 on: July 16, 2015, 03:09:01 pm

Quote from: Harry Bo21 on July 16, 2015, 05:21:47 am

Yes, and i mean i want to avoid the need for extra triggers

I do it ok with a hud elem, its just if theres a hintstring in range too, both comes up, and theres a bunch of times that "could" happen, so i wanted something better

Like dukip said you can do it by using a trigger_radius to test that player is close enough to the trigger, or like I said you could do a distance check to do the same thing. Just depends on if you want to use a trigger_radius or a trigger_use for your trigger. But once you've verified that the player is close enough to the trigger to use it then just modify the hintString depending on if they have the part or not just like you are for the hug element

Reply #6 on: July 16, 2015, 04:14:23 pm

Harry Bo21
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but if two people are touching it, itll flicker between them

the hud element is client specific, a hintstring is 1 to the trigger

if i change it, itll change to one, display that, change to the other, display that - repeat

Last Edit: July 16, 2015, 04:15:13 pm by Harry Bo21

Reply #7 on: July 16, 2015, 08:33:01 pm

Quote from: Harry Bo21 on July 16, 2015, 04:14:23 pm

but if two people are touching it, itll flicker between them

the hud element is client specific, a hintstring is 1 to the trigger

if i change it, itll change to one, display that, change to the other, display that - repeat

if you do something like this it won't flicker when 2 people use it, the hintString will just say whatever the first if statement sets it to

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dist = 128*128;
if(self.hasPart && DistanceSquared (self.origin,trig.origin) < dist)
{
        trig setHintString("Press and hold &&1 to add the part");
}
else if(!self.hasPart &&  DistanceSquared (self.origin,trig.origin) < dist)
{
          trig setHintString("You need a part");
}
else
{
          trig setHintString("");
}

so in this case it will tell both players they can add the part.
given this isnt as accurate as the hud elements but it will not just flicker back and forth. and can be used if you don't want 2 triggers or 2 hud elements for your hintStrings

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Best way to go about player specific hintstrings