How Do I Temporarily Disable My Icon?

Church

If I wanted to temporarily shut off my Consty icon, how would I do that?

I'd like to have a way to turn it on and off quickly (not in game, of course).

CrystalSnake

Why?

Cereal_KillR

wouldn't auth in your autoexec work?

AlienCow

He obviously can't cope with the constant attention and praise those who donate to NS gain.

SinSpawn

Or people asking him if he's a admin and then to change map <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Diablo_fx

auth in console.

Church

How do I use the auth command?

Cereal_KillR

in the console, just type auth and enter. I dont know if it works in a .cfg because I heard it didn't work before actually being ingame.

Maybe bind it to a key and press it the instant you're on the server

Naxo

Once you typed "auth" in the console, the icon doesn't disappear immediatly. You can either wait, or change team (this includes typing F4 while being in readyroom, or joining a team from the readyroom), as far as I remember.

Church

auth in my userconfig file definitely doesn't work. I need something that just plain turns it off before I join a server. I know a lot of vets do that. Does anyone know how?

Sarisel

Bind a key to "auth; spectate; readyroom" and use that on servers which don't have mp_blockscripts turned on.

Otherwise, just bind it to "auth", press the key that makes you spectate (F3?), then press the key that takes you to readyroom (F4?).

This way you'll instantly get rid of your icon.

Some servers have delays on going back to the readyroom, so on those just join whatever team you want to be on or wait for 30 seconds (I think) for it to switch off.

TheAdj

simply turn it off everytime you join a game, I do that sometimes if I'm looking to pub and work on a skill that I'm pretty bad at.

KaMiKaZe1

Open up your console and put in "auth". To do it automatically just put "auth" in your autoexec.cfg.

It shuts up anyone complaining of icon stacking. ^^

Ahnteis

Do you turn it back on same way? How do you cycle through icons?

KaMiKaZe1

Yes, it's turned on the same way. I'm not certain that you can cycle icons.

JHunz

it's not possible to cycle icons, it always picks the highest ranking one

Church

How do I make an autoexec file?

DC_Darkling

go to your sierra NS folder.

make a file called autoexec.cfg NOT autoexec.cfg.txt
There you have your file. Make it in notepad, no layout.

BobTheJanitor

In your userconfig put this:

alias icon "auth; spectate; readyroom"
bind <key> icon

Replace <key> with the key of your choice, obviously. Upon entering any server, hit that key to turn off the icon. This will work on bs 1 and bs 0 servers.

Church

Thanks. I don't play on bs 1 servers anyways. I did what the other person said. I auth, go to spectate, then come back to readyroom os my icon disappears immeidately.

TOmekki

<!--QuoteBegin-D.C. Darkling+Oct 10 2004, 06:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (D.C. Darkling @ Oct 10 2004, 06:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> go to your sierra NS folder.

make a file called autoexec.cfg NOT autoexec.cfg.txt
There you have your file. Make it in notepad, no layout. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
steam folder, rather <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

and autoexec is fine, but userconfig is better because you can create "userconfig.cfg" and dump all your configs there, because the config.cfg has "exec userconfig.cfg" as its last line.

Forlorn

True vets have known this foreva

For good reasons I might add

But of course the spoiled consties do not need to know <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Church

<!--QuoteBegin-Forlorn+Oct 11 2004, 07:44 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Oct 11 2004, 07:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> True vets have known this foreva

For good reasons I might add

But of course the spoiled consties do not need to know <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, we are SO spoiled

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DC_Darkling

cursing hell, ya are right. Its the steam folder these days. I knew that.. just forgot to tell. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> serious... *sneaks out, running hard*

Delphi

The icon will dissapear when your stats update, or ranking updates.

To put it more clearly, yes, it will go away instantly if you go spec/readyroom, but it's wholly unessicary. One kill on your team, and the "rankings" are updated (The order you are put in on the list is your point total), and your icon dissapears.

Church

Thanks for telling me how these things work.

Licho

Well then the "script" for in game switching should look like "auth; kill" :-)

Church

Well, I would swtich at the beginning of the game, not in the middle. I'd just go to specatte and come back using my script.