Could anyone help me, I'm trying to figure out how to make a chat system that only sends the massage to the clients that are close enough to recive it...

I'me sure if you have ever played a MMORPG before, you would know that you can't hear what someones is saying to everyone in the next town can you?

How would you do it?

i dont play much mmorpg because i dont have time for it

make some channels

a channel for each zone
a channel for clan talking
a channel for markets because there is always much noise
a private channel(doesnt have to be a channel)


you could make this white tags like:

hello i am new and i need some help (talks direct to zone)
<clan> wo wants to clanwars? ... (clan)
<sell> 5k ddpb realy cheap (sell/buy)
<to>:flits hey great to see you again

ore you cold make this white buttons

there are more ways to do it but i think this will work easy

Make use of vec_dist and only show a message if the player is close enough (10 000 Quants for example).
It's simple, but effective!

Dark_Samurai

Dark_samurai thats just what i need, thank you, but how can i get the senders pointer to check the distance? i'm using "event_type == event_string"

Flits your idea would work well i do want something like that team chat and pm chat, but if some ones just outside the zone but standing next to someone in the zone it wouldnt make much sense not to be able to see what they have said, i guess i could split it into leavels but thats not a very common thing to do in mmorpgs, I am very interested in how i can get the pointer of the client that sent the message... i ment no offence by "if you have ever played a MMORPG before" i too have had to stop because it takes too much of my time.

Thanks for your replys.. ^_^