1. Making text colored. 2. Time befor you can respawn.

[Crap-Head]

Alright so i need help with to things here.

1. How would a make this text a special color?

pl:PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTCENTER, "Here goes some random text in a nice color!" )

2. I want the players to have a "cool down" when they die. So when the player dies text comes up with a timer going from 60 seconds to 0 and then they will respawn.

How would i do those?

Thank you in advanced.

[devinpro]

1. ????
2. Something like this...
[lua]
local I = 60
timer.Create("Countdown",1,function() if( I>0 ) then I= I-1 timer.Start("Countdown") else return end)
if (!ply:Alive()) then
timer.Start("Countdown")
end
[/lua]

[Crap-Head]

[QUOTE=devinpro;25766742]1. ????
2. Something like this...
[lua]
local I = 60
timer.Create("Countdown",1,function() if( I>0 ) then I= I-1 timer.Start("Countdown") else return end)
if (!ply:Alive()) then
timer.Start("Countdown")
end
[/lua][/QUOTE]

1. I want to make my text which is printed on the screen black and not white. How would i do that?
2. Would it just work like that? Or would i have to add a hook for it? Like the PlayerDeath hook?

[Zephilinox]

[QUOTE=Crap-Head;25767608]1. I want to make my text which is printed on the screen black and not white. How would i do that?
2. Would it just work like that? Or would i have to add a hook for it? Like the PlayerDeath hook?[/QUOTE]

No it wouldn't work just like that, as the countdown isn't getting printed to anywhere, its just counting down, you only need to add hooks when your using a function and don't want to override an existing a hook.

[Resubi]

snip

[Ningaglio]

You would be using a HUDPaint hook, so let me string up some nice functions brb

[editline]2nd November 2010[/editline]

This should sort question 1, all you need to add is all the other enumerations after, i only added HUD_PRINTCENTER

[LUA]
local old = PrintMessage

function PrintMessage( enum, text, color )
if !color then local r = old( enum, text ) return false end
if enum = HUD_PRINTCENTER then
if CLIENT then
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "PRINTMESSAGE:" .. text , function()
draw.SimpleText(text, "ScoreboardText", ScrW() / 2 , ScrH() / 2 - 70, color, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER)
end
local function YourFunction( t )
hook.Remove( "HUDPaint", "PRINTMESSAGE:" .. t )
end
timer.Simple( 5, YourFunction )
return true
else
for K,V in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do
V:SendLua( [[PrintMessage( ]] .. enum .. [[ , "]] .. text .. [[" , Color( tonumber(]] .. color.r .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.g .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.b .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.a .. [[)))]]);
end
return true
end
end
end

_R.Player.old = _R.Player.PrintMessage

function _R.Player.PrintMessage( enum, text, color )
if !color then self:old( enum, text ) return false end
if enum = HUD_PRINTCENTER then
self:SendLua( [[PrintMessage( ]] .. enum .. [[ , "]] .. text .. [[" , Color( tonumber(]] .. color.r .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.g .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.b .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.a .. [[)))]]);
end
end

_R.Player.old = nil
old = nil
[/LUA]

[dingusnin]

[QUOTE=Ningaglio;25810116]You would be using a HUDPaint hook, so let me string up some nice functions brb

[editline]2nd November 2010[/editline]

This should sort question 1, all you need to add is all the other enumerations after, i only added HUD_PRINTCENTER

[LUA]
local old = PrintMessage

function PrintMessage( enum, text, color )
if !color then local r = old( enum, text ) return false end
if enum = HUD_PRINTCENTER then
if CLIENT then
hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "PRINTMESSAGE:" .. text , function()
draw.SimpleText(text, "ScoreboardText", ScrW() / 2 , ScrH() / 2 - 70, color, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER)
end
local function YourFunction( t )
hook.Remove( "HUDPaint", "PRINTMESSAGE:" .. t )
end
timer.Simple( 5, YourFunction, t )
return true
else
for K,V in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do
V:SendLua( [[PrintMessage( ]] .. enum .. [[ , "]] .. text .. [[" , Color( tonumber(]] .. color.r .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.g .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.b .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.a .. [[)))]]);
end
return true
end
end
end

_R.Player.old = _R.Player.PrintMessage

function _R.Player.PrintMessage( enum, text, color )
if !color then self:old( enum, text ) return false end
if enum = HUD_PRINTCENTER then
self:SendLua( [[PrintMessage( ]] .. enum .. [[ , "]] .. text .. [[" , Color( tonumber(]] .. color.r .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.g .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.b .. [[) , tonumber(]] .. color.a .. [[)))]]);
end
end

_R.Player.old = nil
old = nil
[/LUA][/QUOTE]

You forgot to supply t into the simple timer when using YourFunction, fixed it in the quote

[mdew355]

Well, to make it easier. You can use chat.AddText to add colored text to a textbox

[lua]
ply:SendLua( "chat.AddText(" Color(255,255,255), [[ Some text here ]], Color(another,color,here),
[[ Some more text, and so on. ]] " )
[/lua]

But of course it's different if you want it like to show up in the middle of the screen.