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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 29, 2011, 05:48:52 AM »

Would it be a problem if it said that you died when you fall of a cliff into nothing-ness or drown under water?

No, because dying is natural (even if it is accidental) where as violence leading to death is not considered the right thing to do :-)

Anyway...it's of no consequence...as long as I keep them happy, that's all that matters.

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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 02:03:35 PM »

Your correct there...that's why I've gone with the suggestion above of Tags (with space).  Much safer word.  You must understand...everyone concerned with running and playing the game all know that it's really kills, it's just the religious side of the school that must be seen to be doing things correctly.  Once they see "Tags", they won't bat an eye.  You, me and everyone else know what it really means.

LOL, now I'm checking everything out about restrictiong the console commands as I know that all 1200 students will be talking about what I'm about to offer and I'm sure they'll all go home to practice!!!!

Pretty certain I've got it sussed but 1200 heads will be a real test :-)

Thanks for your help on this subject...all sorted now and considered sorted :-)

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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 10:09:11 AM »

Jitspoe....just to cover it...we'll never use this out on the net and No-one but myself has access to the files.  Being a school, the filtering system for our traffic is superb and your program has been added to the blacklists so rest assured this "mod" won't get out.

The donation still stands as we think this is a cracking game :-)

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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 10:06:31 AM »

@ T3RROR15T...your right...maybe tags would be more logical :-)  Thanks for the suggestion

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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 10:05:40 AM »

YOU ARE A STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here I was thinking that you had to be a coding wizard and it was going to be stupidly difficult!!!!

Many, many thanks for that ViciouZ.  I've definitely learnt something there.

This is just great, now I can take it to the management and there is NO way they can block us from running tournaments.

Cheers 

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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 09:10:32 AM »

I could change it to "Elims", though that's kind of ambiguous.

Hi Jitspoe...that would be perfect (It would also tie up with the message "You have been eliminated", which would make sense)

If you could do this, I'd gladly donate to you or your fav charity :-)

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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 08:35:10 AM »

@ payl...appreciate what your saying mate...I would normally agree completely with you, someone's hard work and dedication should be completely locked down (although the HL/HL2 show how modding can be advantageous but that's another subject!).  As I said, I'm not interested in using this on the web.  I just would like to change that one word and run it within the school network.  Students can't get hold of the files and spread em.

That's why I asked if it's possible to make this smallest of changes.  If it can't then that's that :-(

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Help and Support / Re: Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 08:29:00 AM »

I thought it says "eliminated". The closest thing I see to the word kill in this game is die. That happens when you fall off a ledge where there's nothing bellow you or if you drown under water, usually.

Where did you download this? Was it another website? If so, it could've been an older build. Try getting the latest one.

Hi Narga, thanks for replying.  I'm running build 032 and it definitely says "Kills" in the top right corner.  Screenshot attached.  Got excited when you said the above as I was running build 31 but sadly....

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Help and Support / Hud modification

« on: March 28, 2011, 05:28:38 AM »

Hello everyone.

New to the site and have a question.  I have checked already on the site and found interesting discussions about HUD modification but no definitive answer.

I'm a network tech for a school in Devon.  We're a church school which means that all the management are religious.  I've been wanting to run a league/knockout fps for the students for years, but being a church school, blood and guts, mass killing and swearing are an absolute no!

I came across this game when another school tech told me about it and we love it.  Simple design, runs smoothly (even on the naff junk some of our suites have).  It has everything we wanted (plus it's free although we're the types of tech that will always try and donate when free software works :-))

My only dilemma is that the word "Kills" appears on the HUD.  I can remove any sound files management might find a touch close to the mark but I just know that if I show them the game and it says kills, they'll put the brakes on the idea an that will be the end of it.  They'll never consider letting us run anything like this again.

I know there were many comments along the lines of "don't get hung up on the word kills, it's not important" but I hope you can see why I'm stuck.

Most of the posts were quite old and a few mentioned the "wishlist" were customisable HUDs were a suggested option.

Is there anyone that could help me?  I want to keep it on our private network, so we'd never go out on the net with it.  I'm also a network tech with some graphic design experience but I have no knowledge of coding/vbs so if someone could spell out what to do in laymans terms, that would be great. (If it's at all possible).

Many thanks in advance for any replies