Press Use (e) to follow a player

[Krane]

You guys know this, right? In spectator mode, this is the first thing you read, in the bottom of the page.

Where is that? Is this a thread? where is this thread/script? I've been digging the whole thing and didn't find it...

Anyone knows????

[tltrude]

It is probably built into the game engine.

[LiTe]

How would you set it up so people cannot actually look around as free spectate and they cannot choose who they follow?

[jv_map]

I think you can't

[Krane]

Too bad...I'm making a "screenshooters" mod without anything on the screen so we can take screenshots and don't need to work on PS too much...but I'm affraid the "Press Use" stuff will have to be erased in PS...Well, at least I took the rest out.

[omniscient]

well what u can do is this, there is a txt file (sorry i forget the name) in mohaas foler. u can add, seta cg_3rdperson view 1 or something like that to it. then when u enter the game u are in 3rd person view. also add cg_showcrosshar 0 (something similar) in there do u dont have a corsshair and viola. u have to enter it in the txt file, if u put it in console, its will say its cheat protected (cuz it is a cheat) ill check back a little later and tell u exactly what to do.

[bdbodger]

ui_hud 0 to turn off hud and ui_hud 1 to turn it on
toggle ui_compass to toggle the compass on and off
toggle cg_lagometer to turn lag meter on or off
toggle fps to toggle frames per second showing on screen on or off

[omniscient]

there ya go bd, thats some of the stuff, ill find the txt document for ya soon sumo. i forgot about it lol sorry.

[nuggets]

just a silly idea, if you create a black square in front of the players head, and bind it

then script
while (1)
{
for (local.i=1;local.i<=$player.size;local.i++)
{
if ($player[1].dmteam == "spectator")
$black_out show
wait 0.5
}
else
{
$black_out hide
wait 0.5
}
}

[omniscient]

neggues, what would that do?

[nuggets]

neggues, what would that do?

who's neggues

it would create a blackout to stop spectators following players around the map as Lite asked

[Bjarne BZR]

Too bad...I'm making a "screenshooters" mod without anything on the screen so we can take screenshots and don't need to work on PS too much...but I'm affraid the "Press Use" stuff will have to be erased in PS...Well, at least I took the rest out.

Ah! So your question here is actually: How do I get rid of the the "Press Use (e) to follow a player" text... right?

Well you do like this ( from my Making films with MOH:AA tutorial ) :

How to get rid of the "Press fire to join" message when in spectator mode

This only works server-side so you wont be able to take it off if you don't know the person who runs the server. Although if you're running your own server (want to make a cool demo of your new map) you can edit the 'localization.txt' file. The best way is to create a folder and name it 'global', put this folder into your Main folder. Next step is to get the 'localization.txt' file from your 'Pak0.pk3' . Put this into your 'main/global' folder (create it if it does not exist). Okay so far so good... Now open 'localization.txt' in your text editor and search for "Press fire to join". You'll find two (2) lines of the same and it will look something like this:

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{ "Press fire to join the battle!" "Press fire to join the battle!"}

Now what you have to do is to change the second line, which is the right one. Delete it and replace it with a space character, leaving " " (IMPORTANT! There must be at least one character between the ":s, or MOH:AA will use the default "Press fire to join the battle!") It would look like this:

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{ "Press fire to join the battle!" " "}

That's it! Start your server and nothing will appear when in Spectate mode.

[Krane]

Thanks all of you guys for the tips. Bjarne BZR: special thanks m8, I'll get rid of the "Press fire stuff" as you said. Omniscient, the 3rd person thing would be cool, try to find where is this stuff.

But the "Press Use(e)..." stuff is still a mystery. I think is built-in the game, like tltrude said...

Txs again, m8s

[omniscient]

krane, u can try the same method bjarne said but search for aur string. and i keep forgetting. ill get it to u today.

[omniscient]

krane, got a present for ya buddy go to the mohaa/main folder and look for newconfig.cfg add seta g_3rdpersonview 1 to the bottom. when u enter a game, viola, 3rd person. it is a cheat though so take it off.