Speech Boxes for multiplayer

[Silver_Ibex]

I was trading ideas with some friends about how to make UT more “Role playing” friendly.

One idea was to make a generic mutator that was compatible with all mods, it would act like the team beacon by placing a carton like speech box over your head that would display messages you type in.

or another way it could be done is it displays the text below the character the same way the redeemer places the targeting dot on players.

This is a simple idea that would allow for some profound game play possibilities.

Any suggestions?

 

[Brood_of_Evil]

Yeah something like those comic clouds would be cool. It would be rather easy to do, just using some texture to act as the little cloud and display the text inside it, however it comes to mind that it would be a challenge trying to expand or shrink the cloud as the text gets longer or shorter.

 

[Shambler[sixpack]]

Great idea,
It shouldn't be that much a problem expanding the bubble size, just have the textures vsize & usize change (while using the strlen function to get the length of the text). It would take a bit of tweaking before you get it to expand large enough for the text but that part of it should be easy enough...

~[Sixpack]-Shambler-