Added support for instagib

[IyeOnline]

Removed the "gear select" buttons from both the menu and the team select window via hacky "catchers" which will take the 1st mousemovement and remove the buttons and themselfs. Works as long as you stay on the map.

Also added more info about the instagib modifier to the team select window. Originally intended to add it below the gametype info, but couldnt as Bomb mode is too long.

A demo pk3 can be downloaded here

Preview:

[IyeOnline]

btw. i have a version with an ugly looking badly alphaed skull as well: click me (also more previews there)

[BidyBiddle]

The Team Select button should not be removed for InstaGib. You can play a 3v3 CTF InstaGib game if you'd like, with teams.

[IyeOnline]

That's actually not an issue. They arent shown because i tested in FFA, so they got hidden. :)

[BidyBiddle]

That I know, I actually missread your first line and thought you had actually removed the "Team Select" part, and not removed the "gear select" from the "*Team Select" :D

[IyeOnline]

:) quake menu magic :)

[Barbatos]

I like the info about Instagib being displayed when hovering the box.
However, the gear select button should not be hidden in instagib as you are still free to select items in this mode (medkit, helmet, kevlar, nvg...).
Could you please revert that part?

[IyeOnline]

Oh. right. i didn’t consider NVGs. They are literally the only item you can "use" in instagib, everything else is pretty much pointless. Probably other items should be disabled in instagib, so players don’t run around with a kevlar when its not of any value anyways.

I will check if i can just hide all the other parts of the menu and let players select if they want NVGs or not.

[IyeOnline]

actually, while i CAN do this, it doesnt make much sense. There only is value in two items in instagib, that being the medkit, in case someone lemmings, and the tac googles.

Now, obviously everyone would want a medkit, since you can select three items anyways. Tacs are literally the only choice. If it would be possible, could you set it up so that every player gets a medkit? Would make it a little easier for me.

Currently im aiming at only allowing to select item1, and item 2 would always be the medkit.

Additionally, i noticed that in no team modes, one gets redirected to the gear selection directly, which requires another catcher over the gear selection. (maybe you can change this as well?)

(and yes, i clicked that close button by accident...)

[Barbatos]

You're right! Silly me. Giving a medkit to everyone and not showing the gear selection menu would do it for me. I also noticed that in certain gametypes the gear selection menu is shown no matter what. I'll have a look into it.

[IyeOnline]

Currently my setup (not uploaded yet) assumes that every player gets a medkit as item No.2 .
Item 1 can still be selected via the menu. (because maybe players don’t want to have tacs)

Ive also added a "catcher" to the normal gear selection menu that will automatically redirect you to the instagib selection menu, if g_instagib 1. This solves the case of automatically spawning in the gear selection menu in no teammodes, as well as redirecting players that use the bind to open the gear selection meniu

Depending on how hard a qvm implementation would be to achieve this, i could remove it again.

[IyeOnline]

So yeah. I changed the setup such that we now have a new Instagib selection menu, which only allows for the selection of item no1.

There is 3 points left to do, preferably by some QVM script

• setup a system that automatically gives all players a medkit as item no2
• change the automatic redirection to the gear selection menu in FFA modes
• change the ui_selectgear behaviour in instagib

As an alternative for the last 2 points, i can make the gear selection menu redirect itself to the instagib version, but the normal one would still be shown initially.

(btw: i updated the link in the OP for the download)

[Barbatos]

Mmh.. adding a complete new gear menu just for some instagib tweaks seems overkill to me. :/
I think I'll stick to the first version + give a medkit to everyone + hide the gear selection menu.

[IyeOnline]

Well, your point about items made me think about it, and i figured, tacs are still a thing. And they actually still do something in Instagib.

So i went "all out" and added a menu. Don't really care if you use it, but if you don't, consider disabling tacs in Instagib

[Barbatos]

Thank you very much Iye for your contribution, please see #385 for the final patch!

Here is what was done for Instagib in 4.3.2:

• prevent bots from switching to knife
• when active, display a gamemode explanation text + an "INSTAGIB" box in the team selection menu
• prevent the gear selection menu from being opened if playing Instagib
• everyone has a medkit as their sole item
• if active, show " - INSTAGIB" next to the game mode name on the map load screen, to signal that instagib is on