Awesome!~! Thanks Zor!rnrnThis is exactly what I needed.rnrnDoes anybody know of a plugin for Adminmod or Metamod though? I don't have AMXX mod installed and would rather not install it if I can avoid it??

Actually, will AMXX mods work with AMX?

Ok, I got AMXX installed and working. I tried your plugin Zor - it doesn't do anything :(nnEdit: Actually, it does work. The CVAR shows up in console and can be modified. However, it doesn't actually show up on the scoreboard? :( It did work once, but after I reset the server it had stopped working for some reason :(nnAny ideas?

Ok, I did some more testing and it does in fact work - but the server needs to 'changelevel' once before it will actually show. In addition, it also affects the servername that is shown on the MOTD upon joining.nnIdeally, we don't want to have to changelevel in order to get it to show. nnIs there any way around these two issues?? Many thanks for your help Zor...

Thanks very much Zor!nnYes, that's what I meant - when I first start the server (listenserver, btw) it just shows the servername in the scoreboard, without the teamscores. The plugin doesn't actually take effect until I changelevel to another map, at which point it actually starts working. Is there no way around this? Do you know why it does this?nnI understand now that nothing can be done about it showing up in the MOTD though.

Hmmm, same issue unfortunately.nnI remember I used to have a plugin for this many years ago - worked exactly the same as yours, but it worked straight away without needing to changelevel. Surely nothing drastic has changed in the architecture of the console/engine during that time? I wonder what could be causing it...nnDo you have any other ideas Zor??

For example, simply adding:nndod_scoreservername "Servernamehere"nnat the bottom of the amxx.cfg?nnEdit: Tried this anyway, no difference. Thanks anyway, Zor

Yeah possibly, maybe that's the reason why?rnrnAgain, it seems odd... I guess it's got something to do with the fact that this plugin affects the actual hostname directly

Ok....well after all that, the scoreboard doesn't even work anyway - the plugin appears, but the score itself doesn't change from 0 - 0.nnI tested it properly for the first time in a real game last night, and while the plugin does display on the scoreboard, the teamscore doesn't actually change from 0 - 0. I posted on another forum (alliedmodders), and they are suggesting that this is because the hostname isn't able to change during a game??

Understandable! Thanks for your helps anyway

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=142601

Great, I've got the updated plugin and will test is this weekend hopefully.nnI'll report back ASAP!nnThanks so much!

Alright, bad news unfortunately.nnI tested it, and it's still borked. The core functionality doesn't work.nnAccording to the link sparky provided, the servername is supposed to update when 1) someone joins the server, 2) whenever the round is wonnnFirstly, neither of these things happen. I still need to use 'changelevel' after I have created the server in order to get the plugin to display on the scoreboard. It doesn't update the hostname when someone joins or when the round is won. nnSecondly - the plugin itself is basically unusable as it doesn't parse/read the scoring info properly. What happened was, I won a round and then used 'changelevel' in order to get the hostname (and therefore the scoreboard plugin) to update. Upon changing level, the hostname was "Lan Dod - Allies 53 - Axis 0". So clearly, the plugin 'works' to some degree, but it doesn't read the scoring info properly (and even if it did, it would be useless right now as it doesn't update every round)nnI believe that Dod uses a slightly more complex scoring method. A team gets a certain number of points per flag cap, I believe. Or maybe it's points based on time depending on number of flags held. It tallies these to give an overall 'score', rather than a simple victory count such as 3-1 or whatever.

Ok many thanks Zor!! I'll try it out and report back

Alright, so I tested the plugin.nnThe good news: it works upon starting the server! (Maybe it started working the moment I spawned, I didn't check - but it works without needing to changelevel, which is awesome)nnThe bad news: I tried winning a couple of rounds, but the score didn't change, it stayed at zero. The native/inbuilt scoreboard still said "axis 53" after winning one round though. I even tried using 'changelevel' to force it to update, but it still didn't do anything (of course, this would have been useless anyway but i just did it to try and see if it would actually update)

Alright, I did some investigating, and figured out how the scoring system works.nnThis is taken from the DoD:Source manual (but I believe it's the same for DoD anyway):nnTeams receive one point per flag captured. One point is also awarded to every individual who participated in the capture. A team receives 50 points for capturing the entire map.nnThis makes sense - when I tested it and won a round by myself, the team had 53 points (3 points for capping the remaining 3 flags, and 50 points for winning the round).

Thanks Zor!nnI tested it out. Good news is that it still loads properly from the beginning. Bad news is that it doesn't update after the round win.nnI did a 'changelevel' to try and force it to update, and it did - when it changed to the next level, the scoreboard showed "Allies 53 - Axis 0". nnSo I guess it needs 1) some way of interpreting the team score and displaying it as simply "1" or "2" or whatever, rather than "53" etc, and 2) it needs to update more often.

The scoreboard title is only updated when you join the server (IIRC). Therefore, it's not possible.

I'm certain that many years ago, we used to have a plugin that did exactly what Zor is trying to achieve here though.rnrnIt would display Axis 1 - Allies 1 (or whatever) on the scoreboard and would update accordingly.rnrnSurely the engine hasn't changed in a way that stops this from being possible?

I'm certain that many years ago, we used to have a plugin that did exactly what Zor is trying to achieve here though.nnIt would display Axis 1 - Allies 1 (or whatever) on the scoreboard and would update accordingly.nnSurely the engine hasn't changed in a way that stops this from being possible?

Ahh damn, so I guess the idea Fysiks is suggesting won't work then.nnThanks for all your help anyway Zor!

Ahh, right, I see. Perhaps the method used from the plugin I had years ago (and we're talking at least a decade ago here) didn't actually change the servername...but that seems like it would have been the only option. So yeah, I'm all out of ideas too :pnnYour help was much appreciated Zor :)

Right, so I've resigned myself to having to use HUD-based score displays - however, I still can't find any apart from this one by FireStorm https://forums.alliedmods.net/showth...ight=dod+score which is far too involved and doesn't seem to have any way to only use the score component (eg it forces you to use all the other settings etc as well - not suitable at all).nnDoes anybody have any other suggestions or can anybody help point me in the right direction? I wouldn't have imagined it'd be so hard to find such a seemingly simple plugin.

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=21127

What is this for Sparky?? It looks like that thread has been dead for many years now.

The thread is related to what this thread is trying to achieve, So Im tieing them together here so we might get an end result.

Ahh right, I see. Do you think Zor might be able to use the info in that thread to modify his plugin??nnAny thoughts Zor??

No worries, I just thought maybe the link Sparky posted had some new information (eg the naming of ALLIES instead of Allies, etc).nnAnybody have any suggestions for a HUD-based score display?

There is a rnrnset_task(10.0, "UpdateServer")rnrnwhich polls the plugin to update the servername not just on join/quit/spawn/score.

I assume Zor already used that in the latest version of his plugin though

Same thing unfortunately - the problem is two-foldnn1) Server is only updating upon round changen2) The score is being displayed as the total sum of points, rather than simply number of round victories. EG, upon winning a test round, Allies had a score of "53" which is what was being displayed. nnNumber 2 is moot anyway, since the plugin's main purpose of updating during the round, isn't working.nnAny alternative suggestions anybody?

sorry i might be missing this while reading through the thread..nnyou guys are trying to just make the hostname show how many rounds each side has won? or in the scoreboard title? nni think i might be confusednn*edit*nnif youre trying to get the score to show up in the title of the scoreboard.. you can change the "ServerName" message string (it can be changed seperate of the hostname) mid game with the updated team scores but you wont see the changed title unless you reconnectnnOne way to get it to change though would be to show a motd window on the client. As displaying something in a motd window resets the scoreboard title to the hostname (not counting the default motd window when you connect).. But then each player would have to close the motd manually as I dont think theres anyway to force it to close via a plugin. If you can find a way to force it to close, you could try to open a motd window and then close it right away, still wouldnt be the best thoughnnnit might be connected to the ScoreBoard.res file, which probably gets initialized when you connect to a server and probably sits in memory till you reconnect

sorry i might be missing this while reading through the thread..rnrnyou guys are trying to just make the hostname show how many rounds each side has won? or in the scoreboard title? rnrni think i might be confusedrnrn*edit*rnrnif youre trying to get the score to show up in the title of the scoreboard.. you can change the "ServerName" message string (it can be changed seperate of the hostname) mid game with the updated team scores but you wont see the changed title unless you reconnectrnrnOne way to get it to change though would be to show a motd window on the client. As displaying something in a motd window resets the scoreboard title to the hostname (not counting the default motd window when you connect).. But then each player would have to close the motd manually as I dont think theres anyway to force it to close via a plugin. If you can find a way to force it to close, you could try to open a motd window and then close it right away, still wouldnt be the best thoughrnrnrnit might be connected to the ScoreBoard.res file, which probably gets initialized when you connect to a server and probably sits in memory till you reconnect

the .res file is in ../steamapps/common/half-life/dod/resource/ui/nnthis is the section that stands out:nn

    "ServerName"n    {n        "ControlName"        "Label"n        "fieldName"        "ServerName"n        "xpos"        "4"n        "ypos"        "0"n        "wide"        "444"n        "tall"        "22"n        "autoResize"    "0"n        "pinCorner"        "0"n        "visible"        "1"n        "enabled"        "1"n        "labelText"        ""n        "textAlignment"        "west"n        "dulltext"        "0"n        "brighttext"    "1"n    }

Mmmm, bugger