CS2 Announcement Broadcaster

A plugin that helps server admins to broadcast announcements to users.

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Requirement

• CounterStrikeSharp

Installation

Download the latest release files and extract all files into "game/csgo/addons/counterstrikesharp/plugins/CS2AnnouncementBroadcaster/".

To install the latest version of CounterStrikeSharp, please refer to this guide.

How to use

How does the plugin work?

The plugin reads the configuration files in the cfg directory to load the messages and broadcast them accordingly.

The plugin will automatically load the configuration files when server starts. Admins (@css/root or @css/admin) could also use the command "css_abreload" or type "!abreload" to mannually reload configuration.

How to write a configuration file?

You can start from the example file provided in the cfg/messages.json.example. Detailed usage will be provided in next section of this README file.

The overall structure of a configuration file will look like this.

{
    "Type of messages": [
        {
            "msg": "The body of a message.",
            "properties": "Value",
            "cond": {
                "flag": "CS2AB_flag_1",
                "op": 1,
                "value": 10                
            }
        },
        {
            "msg": "The body of a message.",
            "properties": "Value",
            "cond": {
                "flag": "CS2AB_flag_5",
                "op": 2,
                "value": 10                
            }
        }
    ],
    "Type of messages": [
        {
            "msg": "The body of a message.",
            "properties": "Value"
        },
        {
            "msg": "The body of a message.",
            "properties": "Value"
        }
    ]
}

• The cond section is optional. It allows admins to set a pre-defined condition that can enable or disable a message from being broadcasted on-the-fly. There are 5 available flags, namely CS2AB_flag_1, CS2AB_flag_2, CS2AB_flag_3, CS2AB_flag_4, CS2AB_flag_5. Each of them can be set in the same way of setting an integer convar. The following operations are supported in the definition of a cond. Default values of these flags are 0.

  • Operations:
    • 0: disabled (the condition is always true)
    • 1: equal to
    • 2: smaller than
    • 3: greater than

• The admin section is optional. It suggest the message will only be shown to players with an CSS @admin role. The defualt value of this filed is set to False.

• Coloring is supported. You can put a simple square bracketed color in the message. For example,

{
    "msg": "To enter [GREEN]prefire practice[NORMAL] mode, please type [RED]!prefire[NORMAL]."
}

Available colors: 

[GREEN], [RED], [YELLOW], [BLUE], [PURPLE], [ORANGE], [WHITE], [NORMAL], [GREY], [LIGHT_RED], [LIGHT_BLUE], [LIGHT_PURPLE], [LIGHT_YELLOW], [DARK_RED], [DARK_BLUE], [BLUE_GREY], [OLIVE], [LIME], [GOLD], [SILVER], [MAGENTA].

Type of messages

• OnPlayerConnectMsgs (and OnAdminConnectMsgs, deprecated, no support assured)

  {
      "msg": "The message to sent.",
      "delay": 3.1415926
  }

  Note: The delay field is optional. If you have many messages flooding the chatbox when a player connects, you can set a delay so the message will be sent after given seconds.

• OnRoundStartMsgs

  {
      "msg": "The message to sent."
  }

• OnCommandMsgs

  cmd is the command used to trigger the message. You can call it by either "!command" in chatbox or "css_command" in the in-game console.

  {
      "msg": "The message to sent.",
      "cmd": "command"
  }

• TimerMsgs

  Timer triggered messages. You can specify a time interval (float, seconds), and the plugin will broadcast the message to all players according to that.

  {
      "msg": "A timer triggered message.",
      "timer": 60.0
  }

Development

TODO

• Pass in parameters to messages. For example, "{PlayerName} has just connected. Welcome!"
• Broadcast group. Add the ability to label players and send them message according to their labels.