Frnz Talking Icon 100

Author        : $Author: jwalstra $
Revision      : $Revision: 1.1 $
Checkout Date : $Date: 2003/06/21 05:47:24 $
Source File   : $Source: /home/cvs/TalkingIcon/Info/TA_README.html,v $

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991
See LICENSE or http://www.fsf.org/license/gpl.txt

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About

This mutator came about due to guilt about shooting talking players in UT2003. In UT, players had talking animations, but in UT2003 either they have none or are hard to distinguish from the normal idle animation.

Others in the clan I'm in had the same problem so necessity breeds innovation ... or stealing from another game. The idea came from Quake 3, with it's chat bubble.

There is not much to this mutator. It just puts an icon above your head when you are talking. There no configuration files and no client controls.

This document is meant for server admins.

Installation

The archived file should contain the following files ...

  1. System/TA100.u
  2. System/TA100.int
  3. System/TA100.md5
  4. Help/TalkingIcon/TA100/LICENSE
  5. Help/TalkingIcon/TA100/TA_README.html

This archive should be unzipped into your UT2003 base directory in order for the files to be placed in the correct location.

Server

Post Install

Once you have installed Frnz Talking Icon 100, you will need to edit your server .ini file. Servers use UT2003.ini if not told differently.

You need to add ServerPackages=TA100 into the [Engine.GameEngine] section.

[Engine.GameEngine]
. ( other lines )
.
ServerPackages=TA100
    

In case you want to put Frnz Talking Icon 100 into your UTSecure rules, here is the MD5 information. This information can also be found in UT2003/System/TA100.md5.

Executing Class Engine.MasterMD5Commandlet
==================================================
 MD5 Database Management
==================================================

Performing full MD5 on TA100.u

 GUID = [A0AA8392D7119FA3D000C6874E3993B7]
  MD5 = [3eec446237230e8cd8cedc54c7f83eab]

Success - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
    

You will need to add, to the section of the version of UTSecure you are currently using, the following lines ...

[UTSecure###.UTChecker]
. ( other lines )
.
Checks=( FName="TA100.u", MD5="3eec446237230e8cd8cedc54c7f83eab", ...
  MD5Type=2,GUID="A0AA8392D7119FA3D000C6874E3993B7", MaxGenerations=1)
    

NOTE: The "..." just means continuation of the line.

Starting A Server

UT2003 has two says to start a server. One is via the Host Multiplayer Game menu in UT2003, the other is by using UCC.exe ( Windows ) or ucc-bin ( Linux ).

Windows

UCC.exe server <map>?game=<game class>mutator=TA100.MutTalkingIcon ini=<ini file> log=<log file>
    

Linux

./ucc-bin server <map>?game=<game class>mutator=TA100.MutTalkingIcon ini=<ini file> log=<log file>
    

Client

There is no reason to use the Frnz Talking Icon 100 in a single player game since it doesn't work for bots.

TODO

I've had requests to put all sorts of goodies in this mutator, like punishing type killers. I'm holding off since, KISS ( keep it simple stupid ) was the goal for this mutator. So there is nothing TODO.

Change Log

Release 100 (First Release)