That is Nice - kind of like "ServerAdds" but far less annoying!

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I didn't bother posting this as a public mutator, because there is a lot of setup you have to do, I don't think anyone would be as crazy as me to spend the time on it. There are 2 additional things you have to do yourself.

A. make your own custom flag texture file.
B. open the maps in the UnrealEd to find out the coordinates where you want to put the flags.

Neither of these is really hard once you get into the swing of it, but they are time consuming. But if you are still interested, let me know and I'll post it and do up a readme.

I'll provide all that info, plus two template pcx files, with one blue and red flag each. Just give me a chance to knock it together this weekend.

http://www.birdieman.com/downloads/medFlag210.zip

Any questions just ask.

Gooooooood luck!

I forgot one setting. I have updated the readme in the link. Or you can just copy it from here:

a final setting to do with rotating the textures. If you are pinning certain textures to certain maps/flag positions,
then it may be that you don't want this texture to be included in the rotation. For example you might have a texture
that has the name of a map, so you sure wouldn't that to be rotated in other maps. So you tell the texture that it is
"pinned". This will exclude it from the rotation. Here are our current 2 texture lines, and in this example we tell
the COOL texture to be excluded from the rotation.

mTex[0]=myFlags.Flag.COOL,pin=true
mTex[1]=myFlags.Flag.MFM
 

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If you ever get this going, let me know when it is running somewhere. It will be interesting to see your choice of images and flag locations. It is a chance to show your inner artisté I think.   

Hermskii wrote on Feb 4^th, 2011 at 5:41am:

I could do this for two fellow server admins (you and hook, if he's interested). You could give me a texture you want for a flag. Then you could pick 10 maps you want it to appear in, tell me roughly where you want them in each map, and I could set up the ini file and texture file for you. Pick 10 popular maps of course so your players see them more often.

When you pick the texture, the simpler the better, because I have to reduce it to 256 colors.

Yes, I can put it anywhere in the map.

It does not collide with actors, so you and your redeemer would go through it.

Nope. The problem is, you need to give them a location. If you guess at locations, you will just spawn them outside the map limits, or in useless places, like in the air or halfway into a ceiling.

Here's a possibility. It's lame, but the best I can do. Think of the ammo in a map. They have the sort of location we need - they are usually to the side, and mainly, they are on the floor. So I could target all the mini ammo for example. Every time I find mini ammo, I could spawn a flag there. I could let you choose what type of ammo to target per map. And yes you could choose how many flags get spawned per map.

So, good news, it could be done, bad news, you are dependent on ammo locations, and you would have a flag and ammo in the same spot.

Do you have a server?

Now that would be kewl, I'm up to that task!! if you can send the map and give me and idea of the legos you want.

Oh I can edit the flags no problem at all. That's easy!