Is there a way to............
 

Is there a way to add our own emoticons? I dont mean to replace any, I mean to add new ones just for our PW's....or do they have to be sent to stefan to be added?

Yes, there is a way. UN has a system right now. It basically uses keydown.

But, But, But........How??????
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Feel free to forum PM me ;)

Keydown2, technically. Moon Goddess, this isn't something that a new scripter can realistically make. It involves abstract definition of key maps, polling the relevant keys and setting complimentary ganis. Not hugely complicated stuff (the script would probably be very short), but requires a reasonable degree of experience.

I see

it dosent take so much trouble, the hardest part is making the ganis, based on how complex you want

i was making one of these for babylon

As I said, it's not particularly difficult or complicated, but you need to be able to think like a scripter. Especially if you want it to be a half-decent implementation.

I am pretty sure there is some way to use your PW's emoticons through the default system. I just don't remember how.

It's easier just to use MNGs and showimg.

Easier, maybe. But any person who chooses a laggy, inefficient path just to save himself a little effort does not deserve to be called a scripter.

In other words, Gani's are superior. ;)

I agree.

I'm glad I didn't write the NPC on UN, then.

are the other emoticons gani's? I dont recall seeing any gani's....if I could just see how the others are done, maybe I could figure it out...but evidently it is scripted into the client or something, I cant find anything on it except how to disable them

They should be [pm]ngs in levels/emoticons or such. I believe the naming scheme is emoticon_key that triggers itrandomtext.[pm]ng... I guess you could try simply naming your emoticon similarly and putting it into a GFX enabled folder.

I and Senkasui already made that for Gaia long time ago,we basically used ganis & keydown.

NPC Code:

---

if(created){

  timeout=0.05;

}



if(timeout){

  if(keydown2(17,true)){

    if(keydown2(keycode(1),true)){

      setani dead,; //Put the new emoticon gani here

    }

  }

  timeout=0.05;

}

---

If you press ctrl+1,it will active the gani dead,just replace that gani by the emoticon gani.

What would you change the setani to for an emoticon, or would it be setgani?

replace every gani you have, add a emoticon PARAM in it, over the players head.

Then just do like setani idle,happyemoticon.gif;
or
setani idle,noicon.gif;

no icon would be empty, so there wouldn't be emoticons all the time

setplayerprop #P(#),emotion.gani,emotionimage.png;
would probably be better

Read Jagen's post. :)

:(
True...

*gets into that i taught jagen how to script thingy* ;) j/k.. that was old times hehe.. now you're better than me :p

Isn't that a global thing, though? You couldn't replace an emote on your own server without changing it for every server?

I doubt it is possible to overwrite the global stuff. I have never tested it, though. And as long as you are not going to replace emoticons, why care?

Because:

1) There aren't so many characters left to use.
2) Other servers might want to use the same keys as you, and the resulting conflicts would be undesirable.

Moon Godess said she did not want to replace any emoticon, but only add new ones.
And I doubt there would be bad conflicts. You can just add a PW-unique suffix to the file name.

How would that change anything? Let's pretend that both N-Pulse and Era want to use the '?' key, so they both make appropriately-named files. How will special PW-specific filenames resolve this conflict?

Hmm... if it's /levels/emoticons/ then I do not think that it really matters globally. I am not sure, I'm just going on what theoretically I see should happen, is that if you change it, everytime you get on say NPulse, it'll download NPulse's '?' emoticon, and use it, and everytime you get on Era, it'll use Era's
'?' emoticon. Or perhaps it would be like images and it would download whichever one you were on first and then it wouldn't work for the others x-x
---Shifter

I don't think you can overwrite global graphics. Even if it did, it would save the emoticon to webgifs and not levels/emoticons, you would have to get each client to replace their emoticons.

Well, shoot
I want new emoticons darn it
oh well, I'm too scared to try it now, lol
thanks for the info.....

Oi, good point. I thought you talked about emoticon files overwriting each other and not getting updated to the current PW's one due to timestamps and such.