Ever get lost or disoriented in the game? This plugin creates a craptastic HUD for tracking other players in the server. It's not perfect and gets clipped into corners and walls a lot, but if I don't release this now it will rot on my drive forever.
Only ASCII names work correctly. Names longer than 16 characters will be shortened.
Here's a demo of it:
.lost= Toggles tracking for all players.lost delay [1-10]= Change how often tags are updated. Increase this if you're getting excessive flickering..lost hide [0-1]= Prevents others from tracking you..lost mode [mode]= Change tracking mode.lost mode full= Default. Show name tags for visible/invisible players.lost mode simple= Only show dots for invisible players..lost mode local= Show name tags for visible players, and nothing for invisible players.
If you specify a player name after the .lost command, tracking will be enabled for only that player (e.g. .lost w00tguy). You can use a partial name or steamID here too (e.g. .lost guy). Names with spaces in them should be surrounded with quotes. You can repeat this command to track other players.
as_command lost.disabled 1 = disables the plugin
The effect is created with temporary entities, so there should be no stability problems. Net usage might be high with a lot of players though. The worst case scenario of 32 players all >1000 meters away with long names would create 63 beams and 29 sprites. Clients can disable the tracking or increase the update delay with .lost delay if there is any lag or flickering.
Only 1 sprite is precached.