Bfcas
SoulSkorpion
Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
<div class="IPBDescription">(NS edition)</div> Hello! I've just completed work on the NS edition of my Bloody Fantastic Communications And Stuff script <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Basically all the info is in the readme, so I'll just do a copy-and-paste. Oh, and please READ it before you inundate this thread with anti-script posts...
<a href='http://members.iinet.net.au/~karen/LAG/BFCAS-NS.zip' target='_blank'>Download clicky</a>
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1:OVERVIEW
This is a keyboard config which allows quick access to various abilities which otherwise take longer, such as evolving, building and communications. I first wrote the BFCAS for Team Fortress Classic, and since then have found it to be so useful that I've done versions of it for Day of Defeat, Counterstrike and even Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The basic premise is that there are a variety of menus, controlled by the number pad, which you cycle through using your mousewheel. You will hear an alien voice telling you what menu you're in when you change menu.
To install the BFCAS, extract the .cfg files into your half-life\ns\ folder, and extract the .wav files to the half-life\ns\sounds folder.
To use the BFCAS, put the line "exec menu.cfg" in your autoexec.cfg (or wherever).
Note: you will obviously need a mousewheel in order to get the full use of this script!
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2: "INTRUDERS" menu
This is the communications menu, called the "intruders" menu because you use it to report enemy intrusions.
The keys in this menu are:
minus - alien hivesight comms (chuckle, etc)
plus - text messages.
When you press the minus key, you will see a message pop up on the bottom of the screen telling you what the number keys are now bound to:
1=Chuckle
2=I need healing
3=I need backup
4=Incoming
5=Attack!
6=I'm building here
Press minus again to close this comms menu, if you don't want to say anything.
When you press the plus key, you will see a message pop up on the bottom of the screen telling you what the number keys are now bound to. The idea is that you're putting together a sentence telling your teammate who's attacking and where - first you choose whether the marine is wearing light armour, heavy armour or a jetpack, next you choose what they're armed with, finally you choose which hive they're approaching (one, two or three). Press zero to go back a step at any time, and press plus to close this menu without sending any messages.
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3: "LIFE-FORMS" menu
This menu lets you evolve and chose upgrades quickly. Pressing plus will open up the evolutions submenu, and pressing minus will open the upgrades submenu, both of which will display messages at the bottom telling you what's been rebound to what.
EVOLUTIONS:
1=Skulk
2=Gorge
3=Lerk
4=Fade
5=Onos
UPGRADES:
1=Carapace
2=Regeneration
3=Redemption
4=Celerity
5=Adrenaline
6=Silence
7=Cloaking
8=Advanced hivesight
9=Scent of fear
(you might notice that all the defense chamber upgrades are on the bottom row of the keypad, the movement chamber ones are on the middle and the sensory chamber ones are along the top)
As with all menus, to close the evolutions menu without chosing anything just press plus again, and to close the upgrades menu press minus again.
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4: "BUILDERS" menu
This menu is only useful to gorges. It allows you to quickly construct things with a button-press.
There is only one submenu, the build menu, opened by pressing plus. I've done this so that you still actually have to press something before you hit a number key, in case you hit a key accidentally and build something in a bad spot (or whatever).
The keys in the build submenu are:
1=Offense chamber
2=Deffense chamber
3=Movement chamber
4=Sensory chamber
5=Resource chamber
6=Hive
As usual, plus will close the build menu without making a selection.
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5: "RESOURCES" menu
The resources menu has a few miscellaneous options (resources) which you may or may not find useful.
The keys are:
0= turn off the net_graph
1= net_graph 1
2= net_graph 2
3= net_graph 3
5= "clean" screenshot - removes the crosshairs, the netgraph, and the weapon model (although I think Flayra's disabled that), takes a screenshot, then puts them back.
star= toggles volume control on and off. Produces a message telling you what your volume is currently set to. Use plus and minus to increment and decrement the volume by 0.5 (respectively).
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If you've got any questions\feedback\etc, please email me at soulskorpion(at)iinet.net.au. Feel free to distribute this script, but please include this readme file (because nobody's going to have a clue how to use it otherwise <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> )
Enjoy!
SoulSkorpion
Basically all the info is in the readme, so I'll just do a copy-and-paste. Oh, and please READ it before you inundate this thread with anti-script posts...
<a href='http://members.iinet.net.au/~karen/LAG/BFCAS-NS.zip' target='_blank'>Download clicky</a>
-----------------------------
1:OVERVIEW
This is a keyboard config which allows quick access to various abilities which otherwise take longer, such as evolving, building and communications. I first wrote the BFCAS for Team Fortress Classic, and since then have found it to be so useful that I've done versions of it for Day of Defeat, Counterstrike and even Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The basic premise is that there are a variety of menus, controlled by the number pad, which you cycle through using your mousewheel. You will hear an alien voice telling you what menu you're in when you change menu.
To install the BFCAS, extract the .cfg files into your half-life\ns\ folder, and extract the .wav files to the half-life\ns\sounds folder.
To use the BFCAS, put the line "exec menu.cfg" in your autoexec.cfg (or wherever).
Note: you will obviously need a mousewheel in order to get the full use of this script!
-----------------------------
2: "INTRUDERS" menu
This is the communications menu, called the "intruders" menu because you use it to report enemy intrusions.
The keys in this menu are:
minus - alien hivesight comms (chuckle, etc)
plus - text messages.
When you press the minus key, you will see a message pop up on the bottom of the screen telling you what the number keys are now bound to:
1=Chuckle
2=I need healing
3=I need backup
4=Incoming
5=Attack!
6=I'm building here
Press minus again to close this comms menu, if you don't want to say anything.
When you press the plus key, you will see a message pop up on the bottom of the screen telling you what the number keys are now bound to. The idea is that you're putting together a sentence telling your teammate who's attacking and where - first you choose whether the marine is wearing light armour, heavy armour or a jetpack, next you choose what they're armed with, finally you choose which hive they're approaching (one, two or three). Press zero to go back a step at any time, and press plus to close this menu without sending any messages.
-----------------------------
3: "LIFE-FORMS" menu
This menu lets you evolve and chose upgrades quickly. Pressing plus will open up the evolutions submenu, and pressing minus will open the upgrades submenu, both of which will display messages at the bottom telling you what's been rebound to what.
EVOLUTIONS:
1=Skulk
2=Gorge
3=Lerk
4=Fade
5=Onos
UPGRADES:
1=Carapace
2=Regeneration
3=Redemption
4=Celerity
5=Adrenaline
6=Silence
7=Cloaking
8=Advanced hivesight
9=Scent of fear
(you might notice that all the defense chamber upgrades are on the bottom row of the keypad, the movement chamber ones are on the middle and the sensory chamber ones are along the top)
As with all menus, to close the evolutions menu without chosing anything just press plus again, and to close the upgrades menu press minus again.
-----------------------------
4: "BUILDERS" menu
This menu is only useful to gorges. It allows you to quickly construct things with a button-press.
There is only one submenu, the build menu, opened by pressing plus. I've done this so that you still actually have to press something before you hit a number key, in case you hit a key accidentally and build something in a bad spot (or whatever).
The keys in the build submenu are:
1=Offense chamber
2=Deffense chamber
3=Movement chamber
4=Sensory chamber
5=Resource chamber
6=Hive
As usual, plus will close the build menu without making a selection.
-----------------------------
5: "RESOURCES" menu
The resources menu has a few miscellaneous options (resources) which you may or may not find useful.
The keys are:
0= turn off the net_graph
1= net_graph 1
2= net_graph 2
3= net_graph 3
5= "clean" screenshot - removes the crosshairs, the netgraph, and the weapon model (although I think Flayra's disabled that), takes a screenshot, then puts them back.
star= toggles volume control on and off. Produces a message telling you what your volume is currently set to. Use plus and minus to increment and decrement the volume by 0.5 (respectively).
-----------------------------
If you've got any questions\feedback\etc, please email me at soulskorpion(at)iinet.net.au. Feel free to distribute this script, but please include this readme file (because nobody's going to have a clue how to use it otherwise <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> )
Enjoy!
SoulSkorpion
Comments
my
god
that is so very great, I am gona have to try this out
oh and could you tell me a simple way of editing out the last menu (seems useles for most play)
hmm, is the a coment char in HL scripting (like // in java?)
2: To get rid of the last menu, you'll need to fiddle with the menu.cfg file, since it controls all the others. There are two lines which read:
<!--c1--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->alias menu3 "bind MWHEELUP menu4; bind MWHEELDOWN menu2; play builders.wav; exec menu3.cfg"
alias menu4 "unbind MWHEELUP; bind MWHEELDOWN menu3; play resources.wav; exec menu4.cfg"<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->
All you have to do is change the menu3 alias to unbind MWHEELUP.
There's not much point in removing the last menu, though. I put it as the last menu <i>because</i> it doesn't get used much; you don't need to cycle through it to get to something important.
now there is an interesting on, why do you not have the menus loop?
just don't like it or do the mechanics work better?
hmm
thinking of slightly altering your script some
personaly I like having my mwheel for wep switching, so I moght try either binding it on 2 keys ( /* posibly) or bind it out 1 to each key
again thanks alot, it looks great
Im working on something similar but alot of mine uses the TF style +command menu.
Forgot to mention I am using the command menu for a "build a scentance" type thing
each menu has several options (1-8, 9= more options if nescesary and 0= say current)
So the first menu has several options including:
I need a...
___>1.welder
___>2.HMG
___>3.Shotgun
_______>1.in Caged
_______>2.in Bast
______________>in Atmospheric
______________>in Refinery
wich would give the command: "say_team I need a Shotgun in Refinery Please"
It sounds and looks far more complicated than it really is...if your accustomed to scripted menus or the command menu it easy as cake.
*the following will make sense when you open the file in notepad*
"blank"<b> </b>"place a comment here"
"command"<b> </b>"name of command"
the above will apear in the game menu as
Place comment here ___________
name of command ___________
(______ is the space you click to bind your key)
command is the name of a hotkey, HL or NS command, or the name of *ONE* of your aliases, not the entire script.
In comm.cfg i have this:
<!--c1--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->//Buildings
alias bbuild1 "developer 1; echo Numpads: .|. 7 Infantry Portal .|. 8 Resouce Tower .|. 9 Command Console .|.;developer 0"
alias bbuild2 "developer 1; echo Numpads: .|. 4 Turret Factory .|. 5 Sentry Turret .|. 6 Siege Cannon .|.;developer 0"
alias abuild "developer 1; echo Numpads: .|. 1 Observatory .|. 2 Arms Lab .|. 3 Prototype Lab .|. 0 Phase Gate .|.;developer 0"
alias Bmenu "bbuild1;bbuild2"
alias Amenu "abuild"
bind "KP_PLUS" "Bmenu; hotkey86" //Shows keys to basic build with, and changes to Basic Build Menu
bind "KP_MINUS" "Amenu; hotkey87" //Shows keys to build Advanced Structure with, and changes to Adv. Build Menu
bind "KP_HOME" "hotkey40" //Builds Infantry Portal
bind "KP_UPARROW" "hotkey41" //Builds Resource Tower
bind "KP_PGUP" "hotkey58" //Builds Command Console
bind "KP_LEFTARROW" "hotkey43" //Builds Turret Factory
bind "KP_5" "hotkey56" //Builds Sentry Turret
bind "KP_RIGHTARROW" "hotkey57" //Builds Siege Cannon
bind "KP_END" "hotkey51" //Builds Observatory
bind "KP_DOWNARROW" "hotkey45" //Builds Arms Lab
bind "KP_PGDN" "hotkey46" //Builds Prototype Lab
bind "KP_INS" "hotkey55" //Builds Phase Gate
bind "KP_DEL" "hotkey69" //Recycle Building<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->
But what i would really like is that i dont need to push "KP_PLUS" before i press "KP_HOME" to select a Infantry Portal. i want it to go directly to and Infantry Portal... but "hotkey56; hotkey40" dont work, neither if u put a "; wait" between them.. HELP!
hotkeys are odd like that, you can have a hot key and NOTHING else in a comand
you also can't use them with aliases
sory
I tried with aliases for about an hour now... im was getting real **obscenity**..
/me slaps hotkeys
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Its in C++
I tried to do something special of my own, but the limitations with binding hotkeys broke it.
Why don't I edit the wha? Huh? I just script, just bog standard .cfgs. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Btw, my TFC version has something similar to your map specific locations, for reporting enemies, because TFC automatically execs mapname.cfg as soon as the map loads (maybe all HL mods do; I'm not sure). That way you don't have to pick what map you're on each time. I'll post the code, if you want.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->1: // is a comment in HL scripting
Its in C++<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes? And your point is? Someone asked what a comment is in HL scripting, and I answered. If you want to get technical, so are /* and */ <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I tried with aliases for about an hour now... im was getting real **obscenity**..
/me slaps hotkeys <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think it was done intentionally, at least I've read something along those lines.
do u come with a leaked final HL2? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->