Squad Chat Type ';' before any message in team chat to send it just for your squad along with an alert sound. /assign [player] [squad] (commander only) sets the squad of any player. /squadinfo list all of the squads in your team, their points and players /squadskills list all the members of your squad and what skills they currently have equipped. /sl [player] Votes for a player to become squad lead. If they get more than 51% of players in their squad to vote for them they become lead. if you omit [player] you vote for yourself. /rsl Sends a private comm chat message to your commander asking for squad lead. /channel [squad] (Spectator & unassigned only) join a squad as spectator or unassigned, allows you to use text chat and voice chat with like-minded individuals. The next level for your specpires server. Private Comm Chat Type ',' before any message in team chat to send a message to the commander only along with an alert sound! When the commander himself uses it his message gets sent to anyone who has used comm chat in the last 30 seconds. Like a response line. Public Comm Chat Type '.' before any message in team chat to send a message to the commander that is shown to the whole team. Only the commander sees the bright green text and hears the alert sound though. When the commander himself uses it the entire team sees the bright green text and hears the alert sound. /commander [optional team argument for spectators only] Displays the last person in the cv Voice Binds Add the following to your empires/cfg/autoexec.cfg replacing the [key] placeholder. if your in a game type "exec autoexec.cfg" in console after adding it. Squad Voice Talk to your squad members only Comm Voice Talk to the commander only, or reply as commander. All Voice Talk to everyone on server, Only usable to non admins when sc_allvoice is set to 1. Depends on emputils Git repo: https://git.empiresmod.com/sourcemod/SquadControl
Listing squad points would be really awesome and useful, honestly it should be a game feature(maybe list the points in squad menu). But squad chat needs to have a really, really bright color, or I don't see a reason to use it at all.
If it was another color It'd be great and actually work edit: wow I replied to your unedited message this one:
I mean squad chat does have uses just not really in day to day pub games. You have those PUG's where everyone is spamming over the mic etc and you just want to discuss what your doing with your squad. TBH i'll look into squad voice i've looked at some things that could make it possible, problem being that you wouldent be able to tell if someone was using squad voice or regular voice without like a message in chat. Two most important features are !assignsquad and !sl. !sl isn't working very consistently at the moment, its the main reason i created the plugin tbh. apart from that i have a goal to make == talk to individually to the commander. and when the commander uses == it sends the message to any player that has used == in the last minute (like a response). I could do the same with voice I think. what do people think about -- applying to normal chat as well? Yes I can change the color of squad chat. My main priority is trying to fix issues atm though.
v0.2 Fixed more bugs Added squad voice chat, can't really test it properly so we'll see how it goes. Yes the sounds are a little irritating i just chose something i could get my hands on easily. You should post sounds here you want me to use, you're probably much better than me. And you can join squads as spectator and unassigned and talk to your squad with text or voice chat. I wish April fools hadn't gone already. I have to go to work in like an hour, So I can't test it this evening or tomorrow evening. Please let me know what happens. Any errors in the server logs etc. And no, the squad chat color hasn't changed lol, because it is too much for me to add in a few characters to a line.
@Mikleo maybe better names for commands? /sql instead of /sl /sqp for /squadpoints or /sqpoints just add /sq prefix, itll be easier to write and remember ur my hero btw
Damn, you just stole my squad chat idea https://forums.empiresmod.com/index.php?threads/modify-voice-call-plugin-squad-voice.20767 But just kidding. At least someone did it. But this was actually the idea where I started considering trying to script sm for empires I just wonder if you did it over "SetListenOverride" like I intended to? EDIT: After checking, I see you did. GJ EDIT: but thanks, now I got a reference on how to properly read entity data...which was one thing I was trying to figure out few days ago Shit, I gotta move on to surrender and comm lock, before you do it
Good News Boys, I was wrong, there is an easier way than that config. !bindsquadvoice [key] or bind [key] "+voicerecord_squad". Thanks to Mr.X for my listening to my lengthy inner monologue on trying to solve this issue. It really helped
v0.25 Added Commander chat and commander voice to communicate directly with the commander Added alert sounds to comm chat and squad chat. So that the commander can hear when i'm sending a message to him. /squadpoints has been replaced with /squadinfo bug fixes Also just an extra note. Squad voice and comm voice chat work fine even when alltalk is on.
Good job thank for this awesome plugin maybe you should also post on the allied modders / source mod forums so other games could use ideas and/or plugins .
I keep trying to find a way to make squad chat a one key thing. but i don't think its possible. I'm thinking of changing the keys to make it even easier. Squad Chat: " message". A space before the message. Why would you use this in regular chat? Comm Chat ".message" A full stop before the message. Never seen anyone use this in regular chat. If you know the commands i don't see anyone using these accidentally. The other idea is "#message". but someone might try to quote hashtags and i don't think its as good Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions.
Using space and # might not be such good modifiers: A space is relatively easy to add in front of a chat message and very hard to detect. Hashtags are used by the game to display translated strings. So if you intercept those and play them to squads you're going to get very weird behavior.
I mean yea space is hard to detect. But are there really players accidentally pressing space at the start of their messages? so much so that they cant stop themselves? And yea I understand that # is a bad idea. ";message" or ",message" are much better alternatives. Ok the more i look at it the more ";message" is looking like a good idea for squad messages. ",message" for private comm chat ".message" for public comm chat Maybe i don't need to use space after all.
, might work. Not sure about ;, there is a builtin to execute a console command, ;" I think. I'm one of those people that always somehow finds spaces at the start of my chatboxes, not sure why
I see some threads that say putting ; at start of chat executes a command. like putting ;exit should exit the game. but that doesn't seem to be working for empires, if it type ;command in all chat it doesn't execute it.
uhm what exactly is bad about -- and ==? what bugs me more is that being voted as spectator squadleader has no effect nah jk. but seriously, -- and == are fine
