Team Fortress X-Maps

Triggering sounds and messages

This tutorial will show you how to display messages and play sounds fromwithin the TF entities, something which is a feature in every TF map. Theyare used to inform players when certain events occur to help players keep up todate with the current state of the map, such as a command point being captured,or a countdown to a gas release.

Overview

In this tutorial I will show you how to use info_tfgoals to display messagesto individual players, teams, and everyone playing the game.
It will also show you how to play sounds to indicate when certain events havehappened.

Specifics

Within an info_tfgoal there are several properties that are used in sendingmessages and sounds to players, these are:

Owned by? - this will be used to determine which players the messages are displayed to
Sound path/name.wav - this specifies the sound that will be played when the info_tfgoal is triggered
Activation message - this is displayed to the AP (activating player)
Team message - this message is displayed to the rest of the team which the AP is on
Non-Team message - this message is displayed to all the other teams which the AP isn't on.
Owner's Team message - this message is displayed to the team which owns the goal, as specified in the 'owned by' property
Global speak - this is used to play a vox sentence to all the players, I think ;-)
Speak - plays a vox sentence to whoever is specified in the brackets, ie owners team, activating player, team, non team.

Information about vox sentences

To use vox sentences you need to find out which words can be used. Todo this, get a pak editor and open up valve/pak0.pak and look in sound/vox/. There are also words in tfc/pak0.pak, also in sound/vox/. These words,however, can only be used in Team Fortress maps.

Hopefully that will give you all the information you need to give the playersall the information they need. If it isn't, give me some information aboutthe extra information that you require, so I can give it to you. ( I thinkthat all makes sense )

Az.

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