"Player Spawned" Message

[ThatBum]

Greetings. I just removed Evolve and put ULX up on my server. I got tired of Evolve's instability and lack of development. Still, I miss some of Evolve's features. I miss the nametags, chat indicator, and AFK indicator, but the first two sorted out already. What I would like to have back is the "player spawned" message in chat. It may not seem like much, but it's the little things, you know? It's nice to see if a player connected stuck around long enough to come in game. It would also be cool to integrate it with Utime, for last joined time. I know Utime already does this, but from what I observed, it only does it for the spawned player. It would probably be trivial to change this, but sadly I am not a programmer and know nothing of Lua. I would put this in the Utime topic, but I got the old topic warning and didn't want to get a bad start. Thanks!

[MrPresident]

Hi and welcome to the forums. Do you at least know how to edit a lua file?

Go into utime/lua/autorun/sv_utime.lua and find this block of code...

Code: Lua

1. function onJoin( ply )
2.         local uid = ply:UniqueID()
3.         local row = sql.QueryRow( "SELECT totaltime, lastvisit FROM utime WHERE player = " .. uid .. ";" )
4.         local time = 0
5.        
6.         if row then
7.                 ULib.tsay( ply, "[UTime]Welcome back " .. ply:Nick() .. ", you last played on this server " .. os.date( "%c", row.lastvisit ) )
8.                 sql.Query( "UPDATE utime SET lastvisit = " .. os.time() .. " WHERE player = " .. uid .. ";" )
9.                 time = row.totaltime
10.         else
11.                 ULib.tsay( ply, "[UTime]Welcome to our server " .. ply:Nick() .. "!" )
12.                 sql.Query( "INSERT into utime ( player, totaltime, lastvisit ) VALUES ( " .. uid .. ", 0, " .. os.time() .. " );" )
13.         end
14.         ply:SetUTime( time )
15.         ply:SetUTimeStart( CurTime() )
16. end
17. hook.Add( "PlayerInitialSpawn", "UTimeInitialSpawn", onJoin )
18.  

replace with...

Code: Lua

1. function onJoin( ply )
2.         local uid = ply:UniqueID()
3.         local row = sql.QueryRow( "SELECT totaltime, lastvisit FROM utime WHERE player = " .. uid .. ";" )
4.         local time = 0
5.        
6.         if row then
7.                 ULib.tsay( _, "[UTime]We welcome back " .. ply:Nick() .. ", last played on this server " .. os.date( "%c", row.lastvisit ) )
8.                 sql.Query( "UPDATE utime SET lastvisit = " .. os.time() .. " WHERE player = " .. uid .. ";" )
9.                 time = row.totaltime
10.         else
11.                 ULib.tsay( _, "[UTime]Welcomes" .. ply:Nick().. " to our server for the first time!" )
12.                 sql.Query( "INSERT into utime ( player, totaltime, lastvisit ) VALUES ( " .. uid .. ", 0, " .. os.time() .. " );" )
13.         end
14.         ply:SetUTime( time )
15.         ply:SetUTimeStart( CurTime() )
16. end
17. hook.Add( "PlayerInitialSpawn", "UTimeInitialSpawn", onJoin )
18.  

That will do exactly what you requested. It will announce to the server whenever a player spawns for the first time with their UTime data. I assume you didn't want it to show every time they respawn and only the first spawn right?

[ThatBum]

I do know some stuff, I know TI-BASIC, bash scripting from Linux, and some HTML. Also, that's about right, thanks. Though, as it's visible to all users, it would sound better to not address the player. I can just edit the message in there, bu i would like to have the dynamic Nick field first. I guess I cam just do something like

Code: [Select]

if row then
ULib.tsay( ply, "" .. ply:Nick() .. " has spawned, last joined " .. os.date( "%c", row.lastvisit ) )
sql.Query( "UPDATE utime SET lastvisit = " .. os.time() .. " WHERE player = " .. uid .. ";" )
time = row.totaltime
else
ULib.tsay( ply, "" .. ply:Nick() .. " has spawned for the first time." )
sql.Query( "INSERT into utime ( player, totaltime, lastvisit ) VALUES ( " .. uid .. ", 0, " .. os.time() .. " );" )
But this seems kind of hacky.

Also, off-topic, but to you know the name of the nametag addon where you can make a sub-text below your name?I saw it running in quite a few servers, and I want it on mine, but I don't know the name.

[MrPresident]

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also in my example you aren't addressing the player.
Lets assume a player named John joins..


"[UTime]We welcome back John, last played on this server June 11th, 2011"

or

"[UTime]Welcomes John to our server for the first time"

[ThatBum]

Thanks very much! I've been hunting for that for awhile now.

Also that's kind of hokey, I like the anonymous take on mine.