Enable a button to allow players to change teams

[Zanieon]

This a feature not related to vanilla behavior but rather QoL in regards to the very nature of the Northstar servers, as the only way of changing teams is using mods that gives these functionalities to the server, when it actually should be bundled in Northstar itself already, imo.

[Zanieon]

@F1F7Y This one is specially for you due to your Server Utilities :D

[ASpoonPlaysGames]

If you made the convar replicated, you could enable and disable the UI button based on if the server has the convar enabled. I think we should try to avoid using SendHudMessage for most things if possible

[Zanieon]

If you made the convar replicated, you could enable and disable the UI button based on if the server has the convar enabled. I think we should try to avoid using SendHudMessage for most things if possible

Alright, convar replicated and button visibility bound to it, now in regards to SendHudMessage, those i'll have to probably localize them eventually because would be quite frustrating to players trying to click the button and no info will ever pop in for those two specific cases they could appear.

[F1F7Y]

Train WiFi review

[F1F7Y]

I know spoon wanted this ( and I agree with it ) but would be great to know version compat of this change before release

[Zanieon]

That would be up to @GeckoEidechse when he does a release with this change right?

[ASpoonPlaysGames]

Code looks good as far as I'm concerned

[Alystrasz]

In regards to SendHudMessage, those i'll have to probably localize them eventually because would be quite frustrating to players trying to click the button and no info will ever pop in for those two specific cases they could appear.

I agree information should be transmitted to player somehow.
A less invasive way could be to print warning message in chat (using another colour than white).

[F1F7Y]

I hate the thread thing but if it works it works

[Zanieon]

I hate the thread thing but if it works it works

It's actually not really necessary, but talking with @ASpoonPlaysGames on Discord VC, we agreed that having that threading is good because then Clients updates realtime in case server enables/disables the ability to change teams.

[F1F7Y]

I fully agree the button should be up to date, I'm just questioning whether a while true loop is the best way to do it.

[ASpoonPlaysGames]

I fully agree the button should be up to date, I'm just questioning whether a while true loop is the best way to do it.

I'd say that if we can get a convar change callback to handle it then that would be ideal but I dont think we expose that sort of thing to squirrel?

[Zanieon]

I'd say that if we can get a convar change callback to handle it then that would be ideal but I dont think we expose that sort of thing to squirrel?

There's callbacks for when networked variables changes in Squirrel, but there's none for convars afaik.