Message only once when a player joins the server

[Airwaves Man]

Hey guys,

how can I display a message or show a dialog only once a restart  when a player joins the server, so that after a relog the player dont get the message twice.

 

[Airwaves Man]

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[salival]

I have been working on a system like this, called Message of the Day.

It's not too hard, you just need to save a variable to the players profileNameSpace and read that on startup

[Airwaves Man]

Thanks for that. I had no idea what kind of variable to use.

[salival]

2 minutes ago, A Man said:

Thanks for that. I had no idea what kind of variable to use.

Here's somewhat of an example thrown together

_showMOTD = profileNameSpace getVariable ["showMOTD",true];

if (_showMOTD) then { execVM "scripts\motd.sqf"; profileNameSpace setVariable ["showMOTD",false]; saveProfileNameSpace;};

Now to be fair, that will only enable it once, it wont reset on startup, I would think you would need to have the server send the client a publicVariable and the server keep track of it.

[juandayz]

10 minutes ago, A Man said:

Thanks for that. I had no idea what kind of variable to use.

maybe you can get an idea from here mate http://opendayz.net/threads/display-a-hint-message-on-player-spawn-new-spawn-only.13260/