Add ClientPrint

[xen-000]

Similar to ClientPrint from TF2 vscript: It would print a message to a specified player, or null to broadcast to everyone. Currently the only alternative is doing Instance.ServerCommand("say message")

ClientPrint(player?: CSPlayerController, destination: PrintDestination, message: string): void;

enum PrintDestination {
	HUD_PRINTNOTIFY = 1,		// seems to just print to console
	HUD_PRINTCONSOLE = 2,	// prints to console
	HUD_PRINTTALK = 3,		// prints to text chat
	HUD_PRINTCENTER = 4,		// prints to a hud hint
	HUD_PRINTALERT = 5		// prints to a red alert hud hint
}

[Faramour]

Additionally, ClientPrint allows to create colored chat messages with ASCII control characters (\x01 to \x0F), which is not possible with say command. And ClientPrint can print chat messages with no cooldown, unlike say.

[zMoooooritz]

I’m currently also missing a way to send a message directly to a player or to all players.

Using say doesn’t really work — most likely because of the command cooldown:

import { Instance } from "cs_script/point_script";

Instance.OnPlayerChat((event) => {
  let response = "[Response] " + event.text;
  Instance.ServerCommand("say " + response);
});

I was able to work around this issue in the following way:

import { Instance } from "cs_script/point_script";

let response = "";
let ignore_message = "";
let message_time = 0;
Instance.OnPlayerChat((event) => {
  if ( event.text === ignore_message ) return;
  response = "[Response] " + event.text;
  message_time = Instance.GetGameTime();
});

Instance.SetThink(() => {
  if ( response !== "" && Instance.GetGameTime() > message_time + 0.5 ) {
    Instance.ServerCommand("say " + response);
    ignore_message = response;
    response = "";
  }
  Instance.SetNextThink(Instance.GetGameTime());
});
Instance.SetNextThink(Instance.GetGameTime());

However, this solution is not ideal either.

What I’d really like is a way to send a message directly to the chat or HUD without it being attributed to any specific player.