point_viewcontrol

Discussion in 'Mapping' started by Doggeti, Apr 7, 2008.

  1. Doggeti

    Doggeti Former Developer

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    Hi. I want to force all players to look at a specific point in my map once my custom objective has been fullfilled and a team has won. I tried to use the point_viewcontrol but it did not work. It should work in multiplayer in general because there are tutorials that show you how to use this entity to make players, who join a (counter-strike) game, to look at a certain location. Does this entity work in Empires? Is there anything special I have to take care of? How can I make all players on the server be affected by it?
     
  2. Chris0132'

    Chris0132' Developer

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    Works in garrysmod 9, don't know about empires.
     
  3. Doggeti

    Doggeti Former Developer

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    If you use it in GMod, will all players on the server be forced to use the view?
     
  4. SwampRat

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    The only reason I could think of why that may not work is the coding thats been put in to focus everyone's view on the dead cv / last player to die etc on empires.

    That could override things, not sure if it works for the last flag too on flag maps - if so then, from the little I gather of your map, if you make it into a flag map with one flag hidden where you want people to focus then use an entity to asign it to a team then that would do it. it wouldnt be neat and it could probably be abused somehow, but it should work?
     
  5. Doggeti

    Doggeti Former Developer

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    Somehow I don't need a hidden flag. The game doesn't end when I capture all three. Maybe because I am alone on the map? I also don't see the need for it to be assigned to the winning team in order to end the game because I use the game_end entity.
     
  6. Broccoli

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    I have done it in previous versions, just following the standard procedure that you can read in any tutorial (although this was before death-cams were implemented). If they really have broken things, then it sounds like SwampRat's hack is as close as you will get.
     

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