Backpack Weight

[redrum]

Guys, I need a hand again.
Currently in my mod your backpack has a weight value (depending on how much ammo and how many weapons you are carrying).
Right now it will sprint the value when you pick up ammo 50% of the time.
I'd like that it was permanent up in the righthand corner instead of the FPS value.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.

[MeTcHsteekle]

i think that it would be needed in the engine to do that

or maybe csqc, but i dont know much about that atm

[r00k]

You could put a centerprint in client.qc, PlayerPostThink
centerprint (self,"/n/n/n/n/n/n ",string);

[redrum]

Wouldn't that conflict with other centerprints?
I use centerprint a lot in my mod.

[Lardarse]

Sounds like you may need to construct centerprints by hand.

If your centerprints are using less then about 4 the 7 strongs they can receive, then you can use probably the remaining 3 to print the weight at the bottom.

Otherwise, you may be constructing centerprints manually. See Frik's Tetris mod for an example. If you are targetting an enging with DP_SV_WRITEUNTERMINATEDSTRING then it will be a lot easier...

[redrum]

I'm trying this in PlayerPreThink:

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        z = ftos(self.weight);
        centerprint (self, "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nyour backpack weighs" z "pounds");

It won't compile. How can I get the "z" to print the variable self.weight?

[MeTcHsteekle]

perhaps you could try somthing with gyro to get that to work,
somthing with mass and can....err... perhaps i should fully cook my ideas before i serve them, heh

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z = ftos(self.weight);
        centerprint (self, "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Backpack Weighs", z, "pounds");


fixed, use that

[redrum]

That didn't work, but I did figure it out:

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        x = "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbackpack weight: ";
        y = ftos(self.weight);
        z = " pounds";
        specialprint (self, x, y, z);

[Lardarse]

That didn't work

It does if you change your definition of centerprint (I can't remember how exactly, search these forums for varargs) and use a compiler that supports that method (FrikQCC or FTEQCC).

[Spike]

The alternate version doesn't work any differently.

void(...) centerprint = #whatever; works as expected with all qc compilers, though most people create multiple versions if they want support for more than just frikqcc/fteqcc due to the benefits of type checking.

[Lardarse]

void(...) centerprint = #whatever; works as expected with all qc compilers, though most people create multiple versions if they want support for more than just frikqcc/fteqcc due to the benefits of type checking.

Which is why it'smore usually void(entity client, string s, ...) centerprint = #73; to force the first two inputs to be correct.