Auto Broadcasting Script

[nikorev]

Hello everyone! I have come here in need of help. I am asking all of the lua coders to make an auto broadcasting script for me. If possible I would like the text to be yellow like the adverts on DarkRP servers and to say BROADCAST: <message>. This means I want the name of the "person" saying it to be BROADCAST. I would like the code to include what to broadcast and to broadcast every x minutes. I also want to learn something by making this post. So when you post parts of the lua code, I want to learn what it means, so please don't hesitate to tell me what everything in the script means.

Cheers,
Nikorev

[zerothefallen]

[lua]if SERVER then -- Server
util.AddNetworkString("BroadCast") -- Creating the Net Msg

hook.Add("PlayerSay","blah", function()

-- do stuff here, capture what they say

end)

-- Network it to the clients with color
-- net.Start("BroadCast")
-- net.WriteTable({Color(yellow), text, blah})
-- net.Broadcast

-- Wrap it in timer.Create

else

net.Receive("BroadCast", function()
local tbl = net.ReadTable()
chat.AddText(unpack(tbl))
end)

end[/lua]

example of how it'd work out. Read the wiki a bit and you can put it together yourself.

[editline]11th May 2014[/editline]

keep in mind it's just startin' it off for you, that isnt real, full code

lol

[boxama]

Since you seem to actually care about learning, I'll give this a shot for you.
You don't make the player's name appear as "BROADCAST", you use the chat add function to add your custom message to the chat.
[lua]-- CONFIG
local broadcast_messages = { -- Table of messages, add as many as you want, remember your commas
"There's a snake in my boot!",
"Big kids don't cry",
"Up up and away!",
}

local broadcast_mins = 1 -- Minute delay between each message
local broadcast_random = true -- Choose random from table or sequential?

local broadcast_prefix = "[BROADCAST]: "
local broadcast_prefix_color = Color( 200, 0, 0 )

local broadcast_message_color = Color( 255, 200, 0 )

if SERVER then -- This can only be done by the server

util.AddNetworkString( "broadcast_net" ) -- Define a unique message name

local broadcast_index = 1 -- The counter just in case you choose sequential
local str -- Create a localized variable which will be used to store picked messages, so we don't have to write "local" later
timer.Create( "broadcast_timer", broadcast_mins *60, 0, function() -- Create an infinite timer, delay *60 because it's in seconds

-- First we must pick out our message
if broadcast_random then -- If we want a random message...

str = table.Random( broadcast_messages ) -- Pick a random item from table

else -- Otherwise...

str = broadcast_messages[ ( broadcast_index -1 ) % #broadcast_messages +1 ] -- Pick the next item in the table
broadcast_index = broadcast_index +1 -- Add one onto the counter

end

-- Now send the message
net.Start( "broadcast_net" ) -- Use the unique identifier
net.WriteString( str ) -- Write our message
net.Broadcast() -- Send to all the clients

end )

end

if CLIENT then -- This part is done by the client

net.Receive( "broadcast_net", function() -- This function will handle our messages

chat.AddText( broadcast_prefix_color, broadcast_prefix, broadcast_message_color, net.ReadString() ) -- Add the message to the chat
-- net.ReadString() == the first string that we wrote; the message

end )

end[/lua]
Functions and other useful links:
[url=http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-03/msg00833.html]Modulo information with indexes[/url]
[url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/timer/Create]timer.Create[/url]
[url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/chat/AddText]chat.AddText[/url]
[url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Net_Library_Usage]Net Library tutorial[/url]
[url=http://facepunch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65]This place[/url] might be useful for you in the future, and for learning GLua in general.

[nikorev]

I was looking into net.Broadcast, but I had no idea where to start with the serverside portion of the code. Thanks you for the help! I will check this out and tell you what happens later today.

[editline]11th May 2014[/editline]

Worked like a charm. I will look into these pages and see if I could learn a little more. Maybe I could do something really cool with this. Thank you so much!

[editline]11th May 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=zerothefallen;44782919][lua]if SERVER then -- Server
util.AddNetworkString("BroadCast") -- Creating the Net Msg

hook.Add("PlayerSay","blah", function()

-- do stuff here, capture what they say

end)

-- Network it to the clients with color
-- net.Start("BroadCast")
-- net.WriteTable({Color(yellow), text, blah})
-- net.Broadcast

-- Wrap it in timer.Create

else

net.Receive("BroadCast", function()
local tbl = net.ReadTable()
chat.AddText(unpack(tbl))
end)

end[/lua]

example of how it'd work out. Read the wiki a bit and you can put it together yourself.

[editline]11th May 2014[/editline]

keep in mind it's just startin' it off for you, that isnt real, full code

lol[/QUOTE]

Without referring to the other code I will try to complete this. I will keep the other one as a backup.