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Developer Journal: Mulchman

Posted 2 decades ago Programmer
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey there.

I'm poking my head up like an Orca spyhopping or a prairie dog doing whatever prairie dogs do when they pop out of the hole and look around.

So, I've worked a little on some stuff like the "crosshair information" that shows up when you put your crosshair on a player/buildable. It's all clientside so no annoying hud messages are sent or anything like that.

I've also worked on the "player location" stuff. Like, when you're in the "ramp room" you will see "ramp room" displayed on your hud and if there's a team associated with that location the location name is drawn in the team's color. It's all hooked into LUA because the trepids would not have it any other way (and believe me they whine like crazy when you make an entity just a regular entity & add an .fgd entry - fryguy can vouch for this!). And w/ the location stuff, fryguy wrote the actual c++ code to handle the lua stuff for that since he's the lua guru. He might even be psychic as he had the SetPlayerLocation function done before I was even assigned the player location stuff. Maybe he knows the release date of FF?!

Anyways, hopefully the next media release will come along quite soon (or before this Dev Journal gets approved possibly (?)) so stay tuned/hope you enjoy that.
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