Tippy, the helpful hint clown!

[SlamBamActionman]

About the PR

This PR adds Tippy the clown, a humorous command that allows admins to broadcast messages to players via a clown walking onto the screen. It's possible to customize the Tippy tip to target a specific player, and set Tippy's sprite to look like any entity.

Tippy has a 1% chance to spawn instead of a normal chat gameplay tip.

/tippy <player session | broadcast> <message> [entity prototype] [speak time] [animate time] [waddle] is an admin command to spawn Tippy.
/tip is an admin command to generate a random chat gameplay tip.

Why / Balance

Tippy is a charming little fella and adds a bit of levity. Mostly an admeme thing, but when he (rarely) randomly appears it'll be a fun time for all.

Technical details

This PR utilizes the code from #26112 with some minor cleanup to remove April's Fools functionality.

Media

2024-04-08.22-39-23.mp4

• I have added screenshots/videos to this PR showcasing its changes ingame, or this PR does not require an ingame showcase

Breaking changes

Changelog

no cl, lots of fun!

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit f883fd4 merging into 813a0b7
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Tips/tippy.rsi

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left			Added
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Edit: diff updated after f883fd4

[SlamBamActionman]

There is a minor visual bug where the speech bubble appears for one frame in the wrong location before being repositioned and I filled with text. It's not very noticable but it's there, so if anyone can suggest a fix I'm all ears.

[Simyon264]

tippy👍

[beck-thompson]

Could you show a video? Sounds super fun 😆

[SlamBamActionman]

• All references to Clippy have been removed
• Localization strings have been added
• Command has autocomplete and targeting a specific player is now easier
• local_clippy has been removed (didn't really serve much of a point)

I didn't change it from RegisterCommand into LocalizedCommand since it'd require changing the inheritance; let me know if it's a hard requirement. Also, video is up in the description.

[SlamBamActionman]

Test fail appears unrelated to PR.

[brainfood1183]

Now admins can make Jonky The Unhelpful Hint-Cluwne

[dvir001]

1% is a lot for this.
This should be a 1 to 10000 or even 100000

[superjj18]

1% is a lot for this. This should be a 1 to 10000 or even 100000

That’s insane, you may as well just not add it at all other than for admins

We must calculate how many tips per day per server, and from that we can extrapolate tippy’s per day.

[beck-thompson]

1% might be a little much but you can easily just change it to like .5% or .25%. 1 / 100000 is so small you might as well remove it!

[SlamBamActionman]

Unless a maintainer chimes in with a percentage, this can just be merged to see how oppressive it is and then be adjusted as necessary. It's a CCVar so editing the value isn't particularly difficult.

[mirrorcult]

1% is fine lol its just tippy

done