A safe spray system

Luke Sisca · 07-02-2022, 07:50 AM

My suggestion has to do with the gmod spray mechanic and make it actually safe. By safe I mean in gmod anyone can put anything as a spray including slurs or nsfw. However, with my suggestion this may help.

Have a place you go to on the map whether that be a white board or even a little spray can somewhere. As you go up to it this would bring up a "Spray Creator" more or less that would be similar to the early Halo games and their emblem system. All position would be locked so no one could make a penis or something for a spray but there would be a background and foreground. Background would be some basic shapes or none, foreground would be some shapes that would be picked by guy, the devs, or voted on by the community. Maybe even some donatable stuff for custom sprays could be possible too for guy even.

You could possibly even make it a money sink too as some might want to make some for their families or groups their in. Such as an Okay hand for white gloves, a spider for Ragno, sharp jagged teeth for Sisca, shoes for Shoeshinners, ect

Ren Sinistre-Chronic Aira

this is a cool idea, its like having region for each family (correct me if im wrong)

i mean region like, the area for certain family (whatever in english the word is) :')

Luke Sisca · 07-02-2022, 09:19 AM

(07-02-2022, 08:55 AM)Renrawin "Ren" Sinistre-Aira Wrote: this is a cool idea, its like having region for each family (correct me if im wrong)

i mean region like, the area for certain family (whatever in english the word is) :')

do you mean symbol? these could all be common things however i imagine they'd be used for those groups

Alex Casey · 07-11-2022, 08:17 PM

I feel an alternative way of handling this is to rather have 30-40 small images of various simple logos in the addon created that are affected by your player color set in C menu in sandbox, and recoding the spray key to set whichever icon you've selected on the area where-ever on the map. This leaves 663,255,000 available combinations of icon and color without a major amount of textures on the server!

There are addons available that can track who sprays where for staff to see if someone accidentally sprays somewhere and can clear the spray, or can ask the player to remove it themselves.

Luke Sisca · 07-12-2022, 08:21 AM

(07-11-2022, 08:17 PM)Alex Casey Wrote: I feel an alternative way of handling this is to rather have 30-40 small images of various simple logos in the addon created that are affected by your player color set in C menu in sandbox, and recoding the spray key to set whichever icon you've selected on the area where-ever on the map. This leaves 663,255,000 available combinations of icon and color without a major amount of textures on the server!

There are addons available that can track who sprays where for staff to see if someone accidentally sprays somewhere and can clear the spray, or can ask the player to remove it themselves.

i know spray mesh was an addon that allowed gifs even but as we know this community prob shouldn't be trusted with that kinda power tbh, just two seconds of scrolling through some community memes. it's not always a good look. If they can use a check player system for the sprays it might help groups if they wanna regulate who sprays what, however i don't feel that would be needed with a shape system. Hell even if there's only 10 things in each cataglory that's plenty of combos not even counting the colors which could just use the same color UI system as other things anyway.

Alex Casey · 07-12-2022, 02:32 PM

(07-12-2022, 08:21 AM)Luke Sisca Wrote:
(07-11-2022, 08:17 PM)Alex Casey Wrote: I feel an alternative way of handling this is to rather have 30-40 small images of various simple logos in the addon created that are affected by your player color set in C menu in sandbox, and recoding the spray key to set whichever icon you've selected on the area where-ever on the map. This leaves 663,255,000 available combinations of icon and color without a major amount of textures on the server!

There are addons available that can track who sprays where for staff to see if someone accidentally sprays somewhere and can clear the spray, or can ask the player to remove it themselves.

i know spray mesh was an addon that allowed gifs even but as we know this community prob shouldn't be trusted with that kinda power tbh, just two seconds of scrolling through some community memes. it's not always a good look. If they can use a check player system for the sprays it might help groups if they wanna regulate who sprays what, however i don't feel that would be needed with a shape system. Hell even if there's only 10 things in each cataglory that's plenty of combos not even counting the colors which could just use the same color UI system as other things anyway.

Oh I'm definitely not saying to allow custom sprays. I'm just saying there is code we can modify for default gmod to give an option to select between 40 logos to put down in any color you want on a color wheel, and input RGB.

The second part was about we can use those addons that track sprays on like prop hunt, and change the code to detect who set logos down, in case people are improperly using them. it can be a thing in the f4 menu that applies it to the closest wall only (its harder to make these attach to props), and wipes each class period automatically so you have to respray every 10 minutes.


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