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Development => Mapping => Topic started by: toM|vendettA on October 18, 2006, 08:23:09 PM

Title: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 18, 2006, 08:23:09 PM: Jitspoe added .loc support into dp a while ago, and so far it has been relatively forgotten. The only person I have seen use it is myself and S8N. I imagine that this is because people find it challenging to make .locs.

I will explain how to make one for any maps. To start out making a .loc go into your map. For this purpose of this demonstration I will use propaint1.

We will only really need 3 basic commands. loc_add, loc_save, and $loc_here. Before you start type cl_drawlocs 1 in the console, this will display a grey diamond where you have added a location. Whichever location you are near than that diamond will bounce.

The first command, loc_add, is the main command. First I wanted to start with the blue spawn rooms on propaint1. I stood in a spawn room and in the console I typed

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loc_add "spawn room" I then type "$loc_here" in the console, and sure enough in mm1 it displayed "Spawn room". I continued down from the spawn room and onto the flag, I stood there and typed
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loc_add "flag"A new diamond popped up and that was set as my current location.

Because of the way DP figures out your location, if you are on the barrels in your base, and the only location you have added is the flag, it will say that you are at the flag no matter what. It is important to mark perimeters of certain items.

In the image below the green dots represent location's with the description "base", the pink dots represent locations with "ladder 1" (or 2), and red dots represent locations with the description of "backdoor barrels". You have to make a perimeter of descriptions around certain locations.
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3231/oneflagtd8.jpg)

After you add all your locations throughout the map type "loc_save", it will then save your .loc file into your locs folder of your dp install. Tah dah, were done. Attached below is a demo and loc file for propaint1.

The Loc File:
http://upload.arena-zone.com/315815

The Demo File:
http://upload.arena-zone.com/240264

Enjoy
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: jitspoe on October 18, 2006, 08:46:12 PM: I need to tweak the loc system a bit so it won't select locations that are behind walls simply because they are closer.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: TinMan on October 18, 2006, 09:29:23 PM: ROFL. Just noticed what the blue barrels are shaped like. :P
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 18, 2006, 09:47:53 PM: Jitspoe: the perimeter method works fine for now, so its really not that big of a problem. And tinman, yeah I relized that when I was doing the drawing, but it had to be accurate :P
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: loial21 on October 19, 2006, 01:00:26 AM: Very good job Thomas.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: Bix on October 20, 2006, 11:39:01 PM: I dont understand how it will actually help ingame. what do you mean by 'recon' key. please respond here because i got glined from irc.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: loial21 on October 20, 2006, 11:52:09 PM: I was about to respond. But then this....

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i got glined from irc.

Son that is not a badge of pride.

Press a button and it reports your position 'hopefully' in mm2.

Your welcome.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: Smokey on October 20, 2006, 11:56:13 PM: Quote from: Bix on October 20, 2006, 11:39:01 PM
I dont understand how it will actually help ingame. what do you mean by 'recon' key. please respond here because i got glined from irc.
LOL, what did you do?

Anyways, gj tom!11
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 21, 2006, 01:54:37 AM: Quote from: Bix on October 20, 2006, 11:39:01 PM
I dont understand how it will actually help ingame. what do you mean by 'recon' key. please respond here because i got glined from irc.
by recon key i mean you bind a key to "say_team $loc_here" and then insteda of $loc_here it says the nearest location you are at.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: bug on October 21, 2006, 10:02:17 AM: Quote from: toM|vendettA on October 21, 2006, 01:54:37 AM
Quote from: Bix on October 20, 2006, 11:39:01 PM
I dont understand how it will actually help ingame. what do you mean by 'recon' key. please respond here because i got glined from irc.
by recon key i mean you bind a key to "say_team $loc_here" and then insteda of $loc_here it says the nearest location you are at.

Drat! That's what it's really for? I thought it was to help the ACEBots navigate maps.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: Eiii on October 21, 2006, 02:07:05 PM: Because ACEBots TOTALLY know what 'Purple Low Spawn' means. ;)
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: Zorchenhimer on October 21, 2006, 03:23:24 PM: well... you never know.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: Bix on October 25, 2006, 07:01:55 PM: I understand it all except for the bind part. On pp1 i did "bind l say_team $loc_here" and all it did when i hit l was say the location i was at when i ORIGINALLY hit binded the key. Like if i was at blue cat when i did that bind, it would say blue cat where ever i was.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: Bix on October 25, 2006, 07:36:40 PM: Here is a demo of what happened

http://upload.arena-zone.com/62043

Note: a little way in the 10 seconds thing happened =(
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: jitspoe on October 25, 2006, 08:00:56 PM: That's because when you're binding it, it's setting the bind to the value of $loc_here. Try binding it to $loc_here and see what happens, or put quotes around it if you didn't.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: Bix on October 25, 2006, 08:47:37 PM: Could you give me an example of how to bind it. I dont understand the difference of the 2. I tried " " too.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: bitmate on October 26, 2006, 03:58:04 AM: I used to have a bind for $loc_here and $loc_there. Unfortunately, I can't remember, what you had to bind it to, though.
I'll see if I can find it somewhere else, stored in some subdirectories or whatever.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: b00nlander on October 26, 2006, 04:01:27 AM: what you actually have to do is the following: first bind the current location to $loc_here, then print $loc_here out (I think that's what jitspoe tried to say in the first sentence there). I use the following command:

"$loc_here; say_team I AM $loc_here"

try to bind that to a key, it should work.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: bitmate on October 26, 2006, 04:05:39 AM: Also possible:

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bind <key> say_team "$loc_here" or
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bind <key> say_team "$loc_there"
$loc_here displays your current position, whereas $loc_there displays the next location in your field of view.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 26, 2006, 08:49:40 AM: Yeah bitmate's method will work fine, as thats what I posted up at the top. And the $loc_there command would be cool if it would display where you were aiming at or where you had your crosshair on.
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: bitmate on October 26, 2006, 10:54:44 AM: Quote from: toM|vendettA on October 26, 2006, 08:49:40 AM
Yeah bitmate's method will work fine, as thats what I posted up at the top. And the $loc_there command would be cool if it would display where you were aiming at or where you had your crosshair on.
Isn't it doing that?
Title: Re: Lets Set A Standard - Distribute .Loc files with your maps.
Post by: jitspoe on October 26, 2006, 01:41:12 PM: That's what it's supposed to do.