★ Player Join/Leave Announcer ★

[Que]

PlayerAnnouncer4 by ProAsm ,no0ne & Buggie- 2020/22
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Mutator Start
?Mutator=PlayerAnnouncer4.Announce

PlayerAnnouncer requires a Serverpackage.
ServerPackages=PlayerAnnouncer4

PlayerAnnouncer.ini
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bEnableSounds=True - Enables PlayerAnnouncer operation.
bUseInternalSounds=True - Uses the default PlayerAnnouncer sounds.
bEnableGameEndSounds=False - Allows Join and Leave sounds at game end.
PlayerJoinSound= - Any .uax sound
PlayerLeaveSound= - Any .uax sound

Changelog:
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PlayerAnnouncer4.

Added message on screen for incoming/leaving players. Thanks @Buggie for helping with fixes.

[UTPe]

Thank you very much mate. I'll try it asap !

[esnesi]

Thanks alot, much appreciated

Iam going for botpack.click or botpack.newbeep!
Can it also be set as ServerActor?

Iam interested in why the serverpackage PlayerAnnoucner is needed for default sounds.

Edit, works as serveractor!

[Que]

@eanesi Afaik anything player pawn related needs to be set as Server Package.

@Utpe no worries mate ,enjoy!

[esnesi]

Just tested without serverpackage playerannouncer with botpack.click, that works.
With a custom sound ofcourse that package needs to be listed, but i don't think a listing is needed for PlayerAnnouncer.

I assume the mutator/actor already does it's job when it's listed.

[Chamberly]

Afaik, if you are using default files then you don't have to set it as server packages as long they are coded within these files. Unless you are using different version of the botpack file and so on then it'll be a mess.

[giresun27]

It works fine when its 2 teams team deathmatch
but with 4 teams on team deathmatch I dont hear the incoming voice when someone joins the server I only hear mandown when they leave the server

[esnesi]

Had an issue last Friday.

We were playing JailBreak, and players joined and left.
Suddenly the sound i selected for joining players (botpack.click), got jammed.
So we all we were hearing was the click sound on repeat lol.

Sadly i haven't been able to reproduce this issue yet.
I do know that JailBreak depends on even teams, and will autofill with Bots if teams are not even.
Assuming it has to do something with that.

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bEnableSounds=True
bUseInternalSounds=False
bEnableGameEndSounds=False
PlayerJoinSound=Botpack.Click
PlayerLeaveSound=

[Chronox]

Hi,

Just wanted to mention that you have a typo on the "readme" file, it displays:

PlayerAnnouncer requires a Serverpackage.
ServerPackage=PlayerAnnouncer <----- Missing an "s" in ServerPackages.

[UTPe]

Hi Que,
could it be possible to add, along with the join/leave sound, also an optional join/leave colored custom message centered on the screen ?
could the message contain, optionally, the name of the player joining/leaving game server ? thanks

I tried to edit code to support message function (just the message without the player name feature) but it did not work

[Que]

Was able to show players coming into server but not leaving. Update in first post.

[Buggie]

It can be done from what I know.
You need make own list of user nicks together with PlayerPawn actor in one struct.
This list is array.
And later walk on it in timer.
If PlayerPawn turn to None or get flag bDeleteMe, when Name is still not empty, you show message and set name to empty value.
If this be last item in array, you decrease array size variable.
You goes for array from back for this going work good.
On each join new player via SpawnNotify you add new player to array with some placeholder name, since real name not set yet.
On timer you also check if this name is placeholder. If it is and real name loaded, then you announce join, set real name, instead of placeholder.

[Barbie]

Too bad that the game controller class'GameInfo' does not route the logout event to the BaseMutator.
Nexgen instead is doing that; if you are running it, you can create a plugin for it. (Also CPU expensive polling via Tick() as in above Mutator is not needed.)

code of NexgenPlugin.playerLeft()

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/***************************************************************************************************
 *
 *  $DESCRIPTION  Called if a player has left the server.
 *  $PARAM        client  The player that has left the game.
 *  $REQUIRE      client != none
 *
 **************************************************************************************************/
function playerLeft(NexgenClient client) {
	// To implement in subclass.
}

[Buggie]

Polling once per second (Timer) for limited by size array almost not make impact on CPU. So if there used Tick it definitely need to be rewritten.

[Que]

Perhaps you could implement your fixes @buggie and we release as version 3?