I've been meaning to get around to this but I have been too busy troubleshooting ORBiT. I think it can be done in menu using an existing dvar, like the flamethrower uses. I've added icons to hints for perks, several of them, and started to try my one hud that requires the gun image, and it seemed to work but I didn't have images so it was the default texture for most, then I got distracted. I would look in the weaponinfo menuDef in the hud.menu for something commented out that relates to the weapon icon or something if I remember correctly. Then use that dvar. It might be set when your holding the weapon?


If I'm wrong about that, then it simply becomes a matter of you setting your own dvar, based on the weapon file name. You could simply make your material match the weapon file name with _icon or something on the end. Use gsc to get the current wall weapon with _icon at end and set the client dvar to that, for the itemdef you added to menu. Of course you would need to be using  menu hinstring method for your wall weapons for this to work easily.

weapons_icons()
{
	weapon_buys = getentarray("weapon_upgrade","targetname");
	iprintln("function_started2");
 
	for( i = 0; i < weapon_buys.size; i++ )
	{
		weapon_buys[i] thread weapon_icons_check();
	}
 
}

weapon_icons_check()
{
	players = Get_Players();
	iprintln("function_started_22");
	for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++)
	{
		while(1)
		{
			if(players[i] islookingatent(self) && (distance(players[i].origin, self.origin) < 80))
			{
				weapon = self.script_noteworthy;
 
 
				players[i] iPrintLn("Looking at Trigger");
				players[i] iPrintLn( weapon );

				wait 0.05;
			}
			else
				wait 0.05;
		}
	}
}

Only issue I have is that if you're at the other side of the wall,

You can use bullettracepassed to get around the seeing from the other side of a wall thing.


Edit: I thought you wanted to set the hud icon to the weapon. If that is what you wanted, then you can just add to trems menu stuff instead of doing all this. And either way, really, you can just edit trems hintstring thing to get the weapon info too. You don't need another looping script.

I tried using trem's hintstring fix but for some reason when I used it with the weapons gsc it doesn't show anything at the weapon.  I changed all instances of SetHintString in it to _SetHintString and made sure that localized hintstrings weren't being used.

Not sure about that, I use my own, but I would figure it can be used on any trigger_use. Does he have you include a new gsc and did you include it? Is it possible that it is an error on your part, or it just doesn't work. Cause if it was working you could add a few lines to it to set the material to a client dvar, add an itemdef to menu, adjust positioning, and wala, done.

hint_test()
{

	trigger = getent("test_trigger", "targetname");
	trigger _setHintString("Test String");

}

Tried with a test trigger_use, only shows the hint icon. Menu file and GSC are included in mod and at top of script.

(Image removed from quote.)

hint_test()
{

	trigger = getent("test_trigger", "targetname");
	trigger _setHintString("Test String");

}

That just shows that nothing is happening with that trigger at all. I assume your only using one trigger with that kvp, so getent isn't the issue. Have you gotten it to work on anything else? I'll have to go find his stuff on the wiki and see. I'm pretty sure that he made it to work with any trigger_use though.

Oh I love this game, I rebuild mod and it works.

EDIT: Still doesn't seem to work with the weapons gsc though..

His tut specifically recommends it with the weapons gsc, so unless you have other modifications that would some how override this, I don't know, or maybe its positioning of the prefab?

You get that working, then it's pretty easy to add the icons from there.

Edit: But when I get home I will also check that first idea I said again and see if that is the easiest way.

Edit: The build twice issue is usually related to menu files. If you put your menu files in your mod folder. If you put them in raw folder then you don't have that issue.

Just an update: I decided to place 2 other triggers, separate targetnames and hintstrings and added a print to trem's gsc to check what hintstrings are added, those 3 triggers got added and their string was printed, but I got nothing for weapons trigger, so I'm guessing the hintstring isn't being passed to trem's gsc.

Show me what you added to weapons gsc, and where you put the iprintln in trems stuff.

// For buying weapon upgrades in the environment
init_weapon_upgrade()
{
	weapon_spawns = [];
	weapon_spawns = GetEntArray( "weapon_upgrade", "targetname" ); 

	for( i = 0; i < weapon_spawns.size; i++ )
	{
		hint_string = get_weapon_hint( weapon_spawns[i].zombie_weapon_upgrade ); 

		weapon_spawns[i] _sethintstring( hint_string ); 
		weapon_spawns[i] setCursorHint( "HINT_NOICON" ); 
		weapon_spawns[i] UseTriggerRequireLookAt();

		weapon_spawns[i] thread weapon_spawn_think(); 
		model = getent( weapon_spawns[i].target, "targetname" ); 
		model hide(); 
	}
}

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//|||| Name			: trem_hintstrings.gsc
//|||| Info			: Fixes hintstrings that don't update.
//|||| Site			: [url=http://www.ugx-mods.com]www.ugx-mods.com[/url]
//|||| Author		: [UGX] treminaor
//|||| Notes		: v1.4
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#include maps\_utility;

_setHintString(string) //#bestengine2014
{
	self thread setHintString_fixed_thread(string); //so that i don't have to write "thread" before all of my trig calls.
	iprintln(string); // <------------------ HERE
}