Qworkshop3 Tutorials

Here's a quick tutorial on getting locations in your ctf maps.

Target_locations are the entities that identify your position in a ctf game.

Once all of the geometry is complete, think of creative names for the areas of your map i.e. red base, gun room etc..

Once you know what you want an area to be called create a target_location entity.

Hit N to bring up the entity window.

Message is the name of the location. Count is the color of the name in a say_team message.
The colours are:

Once you've entered a name (and color if you want) copy the entity and put it around your room. In the middle, in the corners and at any entrances to the room.
The reason you do this is so that youre always in the room it says you are. It goes by the closest target_location eg. If you were in the blue base, but kinda close to the neutral area it would say that you were in the neutral zone.
MAKE SURE EVERY ROOM HAS TARGET_LOCATIONS IN THEM!
If not it will use the closest one instead.

Questions?
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Further Design Tips from the Radiant Manual: The target locations are "line-of-sight." If a player can "see" it, and that target is the closest to the player, then that location message is displayed. Be conservative in placing location markers. Because of the way the location code is implemented, it causes a large amount of data to be transmitted regularly. It has been explained that the game server has to constantly keep track of, and update to the clients, a data table equal to all the location markers multiplied by all the players. Not only that, but it must calculate line of sight from players to location markers and calculate the distance from the location marker. Place the target locations in such a way that the entity can be "seen" from most, if not all, the positions that a player can stand in when it is inside that area. Fewer are better, even if it means that occasionally, a team mate is in an unknown location.