Chat Script
 

I have been working on a pretty snazzy chat script for Mana Realms.. tonight I finished the RC chat support.

Staff are able to access RC chat via the chat script in-game.

The cool thing to me is.. that you can still use player.chat as the players chat (even though it doesnt show up above their head)

Since the custom chat bar still only sets the value of player.chat you can easily do player.chat="boop" and it will send boop to whatever chat is selected.

I want to add gIRC support, maybe it would have more people using gIRC if they can do it in-game.

Anyways.. comments, suggestions? Stop by and check it out if you want.

hmm thats nice, does NC chat is shown under RC tab?

No, we are including NC in another admin tool, this only logs onto RC.

Hmm, I do hope that you plan to allow RC chat using clientrc for staff only. Not to mention, clientrc will only work if you have sufficient staff rights on the server.

Although, interesting.

of course.. uses requesttext() to get options and checks the staff= list to see if you are staff (since that all it really requires for you to access RC chat anyway.

I tried to do an IP range check but didnt know how to retrieve the players IP on client.

Like I said.. I really like that it replaces standard chat (above the player) without getting rid of player.chat usage and function onPlayerChats()

requesttext("rights", player.account)
iprange is in there.

EDIT: Whoops misread you. I don't think there's any way to get the players current IP =x.

checking the rights would get extremely annoying, because it would say the player is loading their rights every time someone logged in.

Thamhic has a simliar chat system to this, but no RC Chat (we have client-rc for that :P)

Screenshot Here

no need to do that on mana realms.. the online level editor will include NC capabilities.. so no odd windows need to be opened at all time to be on client-rc

How exactly are you going to go about including NC echoing and all that?

havent messed around too much with client-nc but whatever isnt included i will have stefan include. the editor we are working on is going to be the one released to all graal as the online level editor so hes trying to make it work as well as possible.

Hm, Maniaman was working on a level editor, perhaps you should collaborate with him?

Current IP is not in the attributes, is it?

if you mean a member of the 'player' object, then no I don't think it is. But it should be (or atleast serverside)

we talked to him about it.. he wont work with us/let us use his script unless we give him access to tile layes. so.. we have to do it on our own :(

Update:

I added 2 new tabs:

Global and Guild.

Global is the Mana Realms IRC chat so players can talk to everyone.. players from other servers (if they are in the chat) and all the players on the server.

Also the Guild chat loads up when you have a guild tag on so that you can talk with all the members of your guild in the chat. I was going to make the guild chat an IRC chat too (so I didnt have to use allplayers) but theres no current way (that im aware) to moderate gralIRC (ie: to kick someone out or set a password for the chat)

So again.. comments? suggestions?

Nice, but the tabs could do with being a little bigger.
No, I mean if you use clientrc to get the player's attributes.

How do you requesttext() the player's attributes? I tried requesttext("attributes","Ajira"), attrs, stats, a buncha crap. Blah.

I don't remember, but I'm sure I've done it before!

Here we go, I made the tabs bigger.

I made them so small because I wasnt so sure how many I'd use... but now I will make them big enough to fit on the size setting I prefer to use.

This way also we can see the names of all the tabs, even the ones not selected. :)

Looking a bit better. Tabs should scroll if you run out of space for them, so I wouldn't worry about that.