How to color parts of the TTT radio commands?

Garry's Mod coding
#1

How can I color specific parts of the TTT radio commands? Like changing the color of “suspicious” to yellow, etc.

#2

Here’s what I’ve got so far, I’ve put this in my autorun folder:


AddCSLuaFile()

if SERVER then
	util.AddNetworkString( "CustomTraitorCallout" )

	function RadioModify( ply, cmd, target )
		if cmd == "quick_traitor" then
			net.Start( "CustomTraitorCallout" )
			net.WriteTable( { ply, target } )
			net.Broadcast()
			return true
		end
	end

	hook.Add( "TTTPlayerRadioCommand", "RadioModify", RadioModify )
end

net.Receive( "CustomTraitorCallout", function()
	local ply = net.ReadTable()[1]
	local tar = net.ReadTable()[2]
	chat.AddText( Color( 255, 255, 255 ), ply, ": ", tar, " is a ", Color( 255, 0, 0 ), "Traitor!" )
end )

But all it does is print " is a Traitor!", without the target name. It looks like tar is nil on the client side for some reason, even though I seemingly sent the value over.

#3

It’s because when you net.ReadTable() the second time the net library tries to read from a second net.WriteTable().

Do this instead:



local sentTable = net.ReadTable()

local ply = sentTable[1]
local tar = sentTable[2]

And the target variable can be either the entity index or an identifier like “quick_nobody” if the player is not found. Keep that in mind.

#4

Thanks, that worked, but one question, how can I change the color of the entity to white? It displays chat playernames, when I just want them to be white text.

#5

Not sure I follow.

You would just use chat.AddText and set the color to white before you’re using the nick.

#6

I do, but in TTT it still colors the name green, like it would be as if a player types a message in chat.

#7

Instead of ply, use ply:Nick()

Also you should localize that serverside function, no reason to make it global