Allow Player Alias V1

[}DA{Moneyshot]

Allow Player Alias V1

Compatibility: Tested under UT3 v1.1, should work in 1.0 also.

Author: }DA{Moneyshot (Larry Beall)

What it does:
This mutator allows players on the server to change their player name in game. By default the names will be saved with uniqueid in UTPlayerAliases.ini and restored when the player next connects to the server.

Version has been running on my server for a couple of days with out flaw. Releasing to the world.

Usage:

Commands:
mutate setalias {youralias}
- Sets your player name in the game.

mutate clearalias
- Clears reverts to your default player name

mutate adminlistaliases
- If you are logged in as admin this command will display a list of aliases with 
  their real name in ()

mutate adminclearaliases
- If you are logged in as admin this command will clear all aliases out of the ini 
  and reset any that are in game.

Ini Settings:
All ini settings for the mutator are stored in UTGame.ini. In the following section
group:

[AllowPlayerAliasV1.PlayerAliasMutator]

bEnableStoreAliases
- If true it stores aliases for use on reconnection.

bEnableChangeLimit=False
- If true the mutator will only allow a person to change their name so many times
  per map.

bAnnounceMutator=True
- If true this will display a message at game start to every player explaining how
  to yuse the mutator.

MaxAliasChanges=5
- Limit the number of times a player can change their name in one session.

Change Log:

1.0:  Initial production release.

Download:
http://www.phoenix-powered.com/Files...yerAliasV1.zip

[amio]

nice mutator,
will it support colorfull alias?
Hopping it will use a simple grammar.

If it does, that will be a perfect mutator for alias :-)

[Green_Day_584]

SWEET! i can be:

Green_Day_584
Green_Day_585
Green_Day_586
Green_Day_587, etc.....

IT WILL BE A GREEN DAY ARMY B1@TCH3S!

[Scorp]

works well, nice mutator im sure it will be a big hit

[darkyautja]

Thx for this mut nice work .

[}DA{Moneyshot]

nice mutator,
will it support colorfull alias?
Hopping it will use a simple grammar.

If it does, that will be a perfect mutator for alias :-)

No it does not support color aliases. Not knowing what the UT3 engine was capable of I filtered them out until I had time to test them.

[ne_skaju]

Now we need suggest server admins to install mutator on their servers

[Rocknificent]

SWEET! i can be:

Green_Day_584
Green_Day_585
Green_Day_586
Green_Day_587, etc.....

IT WILL BE A GREEN DAY ARMY B1@TCH3S!

Too bad green day is god awful.

[Green_Day_584]

Too bad green day is god awful.

oi! you be careful where you say that

just cause u dont like em doesnt mean i wont go violent if u bag em.... GRRR!

[Rocknificent]

oi! you be careful where you say that

just cause u dont like em doesnt mean i wont go violent if u bag em.... GRRR!

lol. I liked them... When I was 12...

[cowpits]

Now we need suggest server admins to install mutator on their servers

Moneyshot has installed it on our server. See sig for site info.

[elgourmet]

mhmmm am i making something wrong? i just downloaded and installed the mutator (it shows up in the mutator list ingame, so i guess i installed everything correctly).

so i tried hosting a lan game....i pressed f10 and entered mutate setalias {myname}
i also tried it without the brackets, but it didnt work either....any advices? thanks!

[Skill]

hope everyone starts using this

[}DA{Moneyshot]

mhmmm am i making something wrong? i just downloaded and installed the mutator (it shows up in the mutator list ingame, so i guess i installed everything correctly).

so i tried hosting a lan game....i pressed f10 and entered mutate setalias {myname}
i also tried it without the brackets, but it didnt work either....any advices? thanks!

It should work just fine. I have heard no other complaints, but I haven't tried this specifically on a lan game either. I don't know that it would make much difference.

[4TX4]

GheyLizard shall return! nj

[andydepr]

Now we need suggest server admins to install mutator on their servers

This mutatator should be a sticky,I mean all servers should be runing this mutator... it fixes/compensate for ut3 not having or letting you have a Name for your "character" a la UT2k4... Epic knows this.

So please all server install this mutator and Epic Stick this somewhere around the forum.

Question for creator of this mutator, Can I use special characters? This was my name on UT2K4: Andy«de»P.R.

Edit- I installed tested and it works fine!
TY for this little fix

TY

[~{ISC}~Jigen]

This is simply awesome... Ty so much.

[FragTastic]

Um yerh this killed my UT3 quicker than a bucket of water in my mobo. Launched 4 times including after reboot got no further that launch screen. Got a heap of other muts installed with no dramas. Back tracked and pulled all the bits of this out and she goes again. Appreciate ya work but like a functional copy of UT3. Thanks anyhow I am using the alpha of catlaysts TDM4 dunno if thats a contributing factor

[RaZz!]

works well, nice mutator im sure it will be a big hit

if epic will allow us to change nicks ingame with one of the next patches (which is possible) i think we'll have a total mess if this mutator is on some servers...

[woooo]

deffo should be in patch 2!

[MulleDK13]

Your mutator is completely overwriting UTGame.ini

I'll just insert that manually :S

[skcuScipE]

Your mutator is completely overwriting UTGame.ini

I'll just insert that manually :S

Eeeeek, that scares me

[inighthawki]

This is definately a great mutator. If it were up to me, this would be mandatory on all servers lol. I do have a question though. Is there any real reason why u can set a limit to how many times people change their name? It sounds kinda dumb to me to tell people they can only set their name x number of times. I don't know of a single other game that you cannot go change your name on demand in game. But hey, maybe u have a good reason idk :P

[PeterS_01]

does it support the ß ?

[andydepr]

This is definately a great mutator. If it were up to me, this would be mandatory on all servers lol. I do have a question though. Is there any real reason why u can set a limit to how many times people change their name? It sounds kinda dumb to me to tell people they can only set their name x number of times. I don't know of a single other game that you cannot go change your name on demand in game. But hey, maybe u have a good reason idk :P

"This is definately a great mutator. If it were up to me, this would be mandatory on all servers"

I hope every server owner hears you because this is needed on all servers because to my understanding this is not possible with out it and I cant use my UTk4 username online thanks to epic... EPIC why you dont let me be me??? Andy«de»P.R.

[Owyn]

awesome, hope all servers wil have this ^^

[andydepr]

This was posted a long time ago,but I have not seen a server with it the(Allow Player Alias V1 mutator)...

[andydepr]

So,I see a list for the 1.3 patch... Bad luck for me as epic still doesnt allow me to use my UT2K4 Name: Andy«de»P.R.

EPIC! Why cant you just make it like in UT2K4 where you were able to choose your own Player Name???

[}DA{Moneyshot]

Is there any real reason why u can set a limit to how many times people change their name? It sounds kinda dumb to me to tell people they can only set their name x number of times. I don't know of a single other game that you cannot go change your name on demand in game. But hey, maybe u have a good reason idk :P

I know back in the ut2k4 times there were ppl making key combos that would constantly change their name. Numerous server admins complained about not being able to follow who was who. This feature is optional and not required to be turned on or atleast it should be. I only threw it in there for those that might like it.

[}DA{Moneyshot]

Your mutator is completely overwriting UTGame.ini

I'll just insert that manually :S

That should not be happening. I tested this thing numerous times and there should be no reason that it overwrites the entire ini, unless there is a bug in the underlying code from Epic.

[Melissa]

Doesn't bRemoveOnPC=0 under [Alias UTUIDataProvider_MenuOption] in UTGame.ini do what you are trying to achieve here without having to have something set up on a server? I saw this a couple months ago and changed that value from 1 to 0 and a new option in my UI appeared letting me set an alias for myself that wasn't my gamespy id

[andydepr]

Doesn't bRemoveOnPC=0 under [Alias UTUIDataProvider_MenuOption] in UTGame.ini do what you are trying to achieve here without having to have something set up on a server? I saw this a couple months ago and changed that value from 1 to 0 and a new option in my UI appeared letting me set an alias for myself that wasn't my gamespy id

Hey,hey hey(Nice avatar btw) Tell me more about that!!!

[Grasshopper]

Doesn't bRemoveOnPC=0 under [Alias UTUIDataProvider_MenuOption] in UTGame.ini do what you are trying to achieve here without having to have something set up on a server? I saw this a couple months ago and changed that value from 1 to 0 and a new option in my UI appeared letting me set an alias for myself that wasn't my gamespy id

I tried this. The option shows up and I put in a new alias. It doesn't show up in the game though.

[Melissa]

I tried this. The option shows up and I put in a new alias. It doesn't show up in the game though.

Hmm. I may have been mistaken then. I could have sworn it worked, but I only used it to add the e that got cut off back to my name (PraxisPercephone) and may have been seeing things o.O

I'm in Linux atm so I can't go check and see what happened on my client. I guess it was worth a shot though >_>

[andydepr]

Hmm. I may have been mistaken then. I could have sworn it worked, but I only used it to add the e that got cut off back to my name (PraxisPercephone) and may have been seeing things o.O

I'm in Linux atm so I can't go check and see what happened on my client. I guess it was worth a shot though >_>

Dont play with our feellings... : (

[Melissa]

I'm sorry

Would a cookie make it all better?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hip_cookie.jpg

[andydepr]

Now I have an "Alias option" that works for s**t...

[}DA{Moneyshot]

After digging through piles of exported code base, I have found a couple different places where the game actually does a check on it's self to make sure the name in game name isn't different than the profile name, which was partially why it was a bit of a pain to implement this, because I needed to make sure that it was happening late enough that it was after the checks occurred. That is if I remember clearly, as it has been a good while since I wrote this code.

[Grasshopper]

I'm sorry

Would a cookie make it all better?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hip_cookie.jpg

I'll take a cookie. It was worth the try. The alternative would be to set up a lot of e-mail accounts with Google or Yahoo. But, you can never get back the nick you used for ten years.

[andydepr]

I'll take a cookie. It was worth the try. The alternative would be to set up a lot of e-mail accounts with Google or Yahoo. But, you can never get back the nick you used for ten years.

"But, you can never get back the nick you used for ten years' Tell me about it...

So is there a way to achive this or with out using this mod?

I tried the mod once and it worked perfect(OFFLINE)but Online is a difrent story because I dont think that Servers have this mod turn on(Installed).