Squad Radio - fully customizable! Teamgame support too.

[Ænima]

(ArkDoom sold seperately)





SUPER EARLY ALPHA footage:

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Convenient!

Imagine a way to quickly play a sound that all your teammates would hear. Imagine them being able to quickly pinpoint you with a HUD icon. Like in such games as CounterStrike or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.



Easy to use!

All it takes is binding one button to open/close the menu! Navigating the menu is done with WASD (for now, until I create alternate layouts), and Use selects a choice.



Compatible!

... with almost any other mod you want to run.



Customizable!

Use any existing Squad Radio sound pack or CREATE YOUR OWN in just minutes using the provided template!

Tutorial video:

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Downloads!
Core PK3 v0.2 (required)

Custom soundpack template


Available sound packs:
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (Allies)



To load the mod, load the core PK3 first and then your preferred soundpack after it. Only one sound pack at a time.


To do list:

• better looking GUI, maybe a radio scanner themed menu
• maybe more choices or an additional menu level (which would increase the max choices from 16 to 64, but i'm debating if this is worth it or necessary), or a center option on the "compass" creating the possibility for 5 categories and 25 total choices
• macros to play a particular radio clip with just one button. might lead to spam but we'll see.
• possible customizable layout, if you don't like the compass-point setup then maybe you'd prefer the option of a numbered list or maybe mouse input if i figure out a way to un-invert it for Y-invert players like me

changelog:

• v0.1:
  ===================================================
• Menu sounds are less ear-rape.
• Added team compatibility! Now only members of your team will hear and see you when you use the radio.
• Better-interpolated movement of the speaker HUD icon.
• Replaced all ACS instances of PlayerCount() with more specific code.
  
  v0.2:
  ===================================================
• Fixed that pesky runaway script error.

Feedback appreciated.

[TheMightyHeracross]

Always wanted one of those voice command systems for Doom. Nice!
Are the radio commands restricted within teams in teamgames?

[Ænima]

Always wanted one of those voice command systems for Doom. Nice!

Thanks. I did a system like this a long time ago for the old '09-era Mercenaries versions but it was laggy, required 10 seperate buttons to be bound to the keyboard, and was generally disorganized and had retarded soundbytes. I played around with the idea of a WASD-controlled four-way menu in that SyringeMod Complex thing, and now I'm finalizing it and making it standalone.

Are the radio commands restricted within teams in teamgames?

Eek. The elephant in the room. I'm afraid that's going to take more work, I have to figure out a system of selectively applying LocalAmbientSound to every player that's "supposed" to hear a sound. Right now they just use AmbientSound() to play the sound for all players in the server.

[Slim]

[quote=Ænima]Screw exosounds![/quote]

Ohhh. Shots fired. (even though that kinda stings me very slightly since I was the main contributor :( )

EDIT: Oh wait, never mind. This is still limited by the 16 sounds you can define, whereas the current version of exosounds (I dunno if it's even really completed yet, I've just seen & heard in teamviewer), any sound can be dropped in and defined, and it works. Never mind. So it's not necessarily 'screw exosounds', though I can see why you say that.

[DoomReaper]

[quote=Ænima]Screw exosounds![/quote]

[Catastrophe]

So basically VGS from smite?

[fr blood]

This thing is sure useful, but knowing how is a part of our community it could end on a server by spamming useless orders and then people wouldn't use it anymore.

I guess that it will work fine only with serious players.

[DevilHunter]

I like this.. However...

Is this only selectable via WASD keys? if so, then for those who bound movement to those keys, its a pain in the ass. Since you know, you move as you select a chat thing.

The menu won't reopen unless you move one step.

I think Striker has a better menu system in his HQ mod but... He is banned on the forums.. However, next time I see him on IRC, I will ask about it and see if he would share the code.

I already made my own template but sure is limited to how many chats you have unless you do the random thing.

[Ænima]

Screw exosounds!

Upset because I'm a better coder than FSR? Funny you posted only minutes after Slim.

Nobody wants to remember individual CCMD's and bind them just to spam Robot Chicken soundbytes. Congratulations, you learned how to use a string array.

But enough about that. I'm amused you took that little jab so seriously. It wasn't personal at all but you took offense to exosounds being claimed inferior as if it were your own brainchild. By "screw exosounds" I'm merely advertising this as an alternative for players who want something more user-friendly and open-ended. Take your butthurt out of here.

[Slim]

I wouldn't mind the interface being like Killing Floor, I just like it better than the 'tree' approach. Although that isn't mandatory.

[Ænima]

I like this.. However...

Is this only selectable via WASD keys? if so, then for those who bound movement to those keys, its a pain in the ass. Since you know, you move as you select a chat thing.

Well, originally when I made it in that SyringeMod addon, i made it so that players are totally frozen in place while the menu is open. Buuuut i felt like that left players too vulnerable. So what if you do a little DDR dance when you're selecting a radio command? As long as you're not standing on a Doom2 MAP24-esque ledge you'll be fine. And you can even jump and fire at monsters while you have the menu open. So what if it makes the choices go nuts, just wait until you're in a safe place and pick your choice. But as I said, I'm considering additional input options.

I think Striker has a better menu system in his HQ mod but... He is banned on the forums.. However, next time I see him on IRC, I will ask about it and see if he would share the code.

Yes I've looked at his code. That's basically exactly the same as the one I made for Mercs 1 all those years ago, which is a CounterStrike-style layout using a numbered list. I will make this a possible layout option that players can use a CCMD to toggle between ingame. I was also considering a two-column "tree" that lists all categories on the left and every possible choice on the right.

If I go with the numbered list then I'm gonna have to add additional keybinds unless players want to scroll through each menu choice one by one like the old SMMP. Which I doubt.

I already made my own template but sure is limited to how many chats you have unless you do the random thing.

If anything, the first thing I'll do is add a center choice to the "compass", creating 25 possible choices instead of sixteen. Then once all the choices are coded I'll figure out some alternate layouts. OMG ONLY 16 CHOICES THIS SUCKS. Gimme a break, I just started this thing.

Look in the first post, all of that stuff's been in the to-do list since yesterday. :p

[Kaminsky]

If you were to use a numbered list, you could bind each of the number keys (0-9) to play individual sounds as long as the radio menu is displayed. Otherwise, the player can switch between their weapons as usual.

So...

* Players open the radio menu using separate keys (example: X, C, V). This could be used to organize messages by theme (requests, affirmation, team related).
* Players select different radio messages using the number keys (example: 1 - "Cover me!").
* If the radio menu is disabled and the player presses the any of the number keys, it simply selects whatever weapon they have in that slot.

It may seem complicated, but it provides users with more commands to choose from while being able to control movement and other functions with ease. It would be similar to how games like Counter-Strike use this feature.

[Ænima]

If you were to use a numbered list, you could bind each of the number keys (0-9) to play individual sounds as long as the radio menu is displayed. Otherwise, the player can switch between their weapons as usual.

So...

* Players open the radio menu using separate keys (example: X, C, V). This could be used to organize messages by theme (requests, affirmation, team related).
* Players select different radio messages using the number keys (example: 1 - "Cover me!").
* If the radio menu is disabled and the player presses the any of the number keys, it simply selects whatever weapon they have in that slot.

Yes except weapon slot keys (or anything that's not a movement command, essentially) are not recognized by GetPlayerInput(). You can't just read the raw keyboard input from a client, it has to be input that the engine understands (move forward, strafe right, jump, use, etc). This means that the player will have to bind 10 keys by hand to their keyboard (which will puke 10 different arguments of an ACS script), keys which are hopefully not being used for anything else.

[Kaminsky]

If you were to use a numbered list, you could bind each of the number keys (0-9) to play individual sounds as long as the radio menu is displayed. Otherwise, the player can switch between their weapons as usual.

So...

* Players open the radio menu using separate keys (example: X, C, V). This could be used to organize messages by theme (requests, affirmation, team related).
* Players select different radio messages using the number keys (example: 1 - "Cover me!").
* If the radio menu is disabled and the player presses the any of the number keys, it simply selects whatever weapon they have in that slot.

Yes except weapon slot keys (or anything that's not a movement command, essentially) are not recognized by GetPlayerInput(). You can't just read the raw keyboard input from a client, it has to be input that the engine understands (move forward, strafe right, jump, use, etc). This means that the player will have to bind 10 keys by hand to their keyboard (which will puke 10 different arguments of an ACS script), keys which are hopefully not being used for anything else.

What I meant was to bind each of the number keys to different scripts. In KEYCONF, you could have: defaultbind 1 "puke 200".

Then, in your ACS file(s):

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Script 200 (void) NET {
 if(usingRadioMenu()) //Play radio sound if radio commands menu is opened.

 else
 ConsoleCommand("slot 1"); //Open slot 1.

usingRadioMenu() would be a Boolean function that determines whether the player is using the radio commands menu. You can't read raw input using GetPlayerInput(), but you could bind the keys automatically and the game should be able to make the desired action based on the conditions.

[Arctangent]

You seemed to have missed the second part of what he posted - the fact that that means 10 more binds nobody's going to want to use, especially since Zandronum has no real way to bind multiple things to a single key without creating aliases.

[Ænima]

Not sure if using defaultbind to overwrite the default key would even work or if it would just do nothing since 1-0 are already bound for most players, but thanks for the hacky idea, I'll definitely play with it when I get home. :D

EDIT:
I dunno just thinking about it, I don't want to have to wait on a jump command from the server just to switch to my slot 4 weapon. That could be several tics on the client's end, with lag possibly more. It's just too hacky. I'm pretty much prepared to create more puke binds, but they'd be optional and only for the players who want the list layout.

[arkore]

I'm afraid that's going to take more work, I have to figure out a system of selectively applying LocalAmbientSound to every player that's "supposed" to hear a sound.

I did this in my Jailbreak mod.

Here is some roughly copy/pasted code that should help:

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#define PLAYER_TID_START 1000

int player_team[64];
int player_wasteam[64];

script 20 ENTER
{
    // Change Player's TID
    Thing_ChangeTID(0, PLAYER_TID_START+PlayerNumber());

    // Increase count.
    if (player_alive[PlayerNumber()] == false) {
        int player_team_num = GetPlayerInfo(PlayerNumber(), PLAYERINFO_TEAM) + 1;
        player_team[PlayerNumber()] = player_team_num;
        player_wasteam[PlayerNumber()] = player_team_num;
    }
}

script 40 RESPAWN
{
    if (debug) print(s:"SCR RESPAWN-");

    // Make sure our old dead body doesn't still have our tid
    Thing_ChangeTID(PLAYER_TID_START+PlayerNumber(),0);
    Thing_ChangeTID(0,PLAYER_TID_START+PlayerNumber());

        // Update teams, to allow for "team" console command usage.
    // int player_team_num = player_team[PlayerNumber()];
    int player_team_num = GetPlayerInfo(PlayerNumber(), PLAYERINFO_TEAM) + 1;
    int player_wasteam_num = player_wasteam[PlayerNumber()];

    if (player_team_num != player_wasteam_num) {
        player_team[PlayerNumber()] = player_team_num;
        player_wasteam[PlayerNumber()] = player_team_num;
    }
}


// ....

script ?? {
    // Announce it to players of same team.
    int p_team_num;
    for (int p = 0; p < 64; p++) {
        if (PlayerInGame(p) && !player_injail[p]) {
            p_team_num = GetPlayerInfo(p, PLAYERINFO_TEAM) + 1;
            if (p_team_num == player_team_num) {
                PlayerLocalAmbientSound(p, "anvict", 127);
            }
        }
    }
}


function void PlayerLocalAmbientSound(int player, str sound, int volume) {
    SetActivator(GetPlayerTIDByPlayerNumber(player));
    LocalAmbientSound(sound, volume);
}

[Ænima]

Ah! A for loop. I thought of that originally since I'm using something similar elsewhere in the script but didn't think to apply it to LocalAmbientSound. Now I just have to figure out a way to get a player-chosen string to open your script on all other players.

[arkore]

Now I just have to figure out a way to get a player-chosen string to open your script on all other players.

Well, could use http://zdoom.org/wiki/ActivatorTID to know who is activated the sound, so that when you loop through all players (of your team), you can ignore the player with the TID of the Activator (YOU).

If I understand correctly.

[Ænima]

So with Arkore's help I managed to make the radio code work for teams! Now only members of your team can hear your chats and see your speaker icon. Works with any number of teams, not just red and blue.


I will hopefully have this new version up by tomorrow or the next day. :D