Killing Sprees and MultiKillsOkay, I found something starting from
here...
I didn'k know that the OAX site contained such "help" pages...
Anyway, the pages taking about "Skilling Sprees", "Death Sprees" and "Multikills" seem to be:
http://code.google.com/p/oax/wiki/Enabling_Sprees_MultiKillshttp://code.google.com/p/oax/wiki/Configuring_Spreeshttp://code.google.com/p/oax/wiki/Sprees_and_Multikillshttp://code.google.com/p/oax/wiki/MultKill_ConfigBut there are some things I don't understand.
1) What's the difference between "Killing Sprees" and "Death Sprees"?
2) Why does the killing spree configuration file (specified in the "g_sprees" variable, default "sprees.dat") has to be placed into the "appdata" folder (under Windows, %APPDATA%\OpenArena\baseoa) only? Usually, you can select to place your custom files (I'm talking about .pk3 or .cfg files, I don't know about .dat files!) there or also under the
installation folder\baseoa, as you wish. Why does this is different?
3) I created a test "sprees.dat" file. When I reach a spree with the "printpos = 2" option, the message correctly appears in console. But the sprees with the "printpos = 1" option do not work correcly, imho: the message is printed on the main screen
only when another player gets it, not if I earn it (note: with printpos 1, it is not printed in console at all, but only on the main screen).
4) With "printpos = 1", the fonts are huge... I don't know exacly how many of them are shown, but it seems about 40 characters (or maybe 43 at max)... The example on the OAX page says "[n] is on a killing spree!!! ( [k] kills!!! )": use a short player name like "player" and the message will result "Player is on a killing spree!!! ( 5 kills!!! )": it is 47 characters long, and the text goes out of the screen. Not very nice. I suppose that smaller fonts should be used there.
The help page says that the killing spree message should work correctly up to 150 output characters, but probably it is true only for the messages printed in the console...5) The "MultiKill" configuration help page is not completed: there is no indication of how to configure them!!! It seems that one should place them in the same "sprees.dat" file (indicating a different audio file depending from how many frags the player gets in few seconds?), but there is not indication of how they should be written.
Someone can help me?