Simple ES script for chat untill it gets fixed

I've installed on our servers 2,3,4,5,7,8 (servers 1 and 6 with sourcemod have this already) a very small (and stupid) script for Mattie-EventScripts I've written today to enable chat until Valve fixes the HL2DM chat bug.

I have not implemented team chat for ES, because I am lazy:-) So if people team-chat (server 2 or 5, for example), everybody (not only team-mates) will see messages.

If anybody needs a script, here it is:
http://space-in.de/steambob/es_rechat.txt

Make a directory addons/eventscripts/rechat and put it there.
Then put a command:
es_load rechat
in your autoexec.cfg and restart server.

When Valve finally fixes the bug (today? tomorrow? in a week? ...), just delete the file and the entry in
autoexec.cfg and restart server. Otherwise you will have the chat messages doubled.

If Valve never fixes the bug it is possible to make everything with team chat and also a standalone plugin (without ES) for that ^^ But I hope they fix it soon.

P.S. If anyone wants the similar fix for the sourcemod plugin (and it is with team-chat ), write me a note.

EDIT: For all having problems with ES or sourcemod,
you can use a small plugin written by Keeper. This plugin does the same.
http://www.hl2plugins.com/downloads/download.php?file=18


EDIT2: I just found a post on ES forum with the same solution, which was posted when the first "chat bug" was "released" by Valve in June. I can only say that I did independently come to almost the same solution after looking on Saysounds scripts for ES (they produced both sounds and messages). Anyway here is that post:
http://forums.mattie.info/cs/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14825
I wish I found it before - it would spare some of my time.



in deutsch

wenn wir unsern bob nicht hätten^^

thx guys!

[HL²]fans_TiAs:
I think that some scripts for mattie's eventscripts are not very stable, but mattie's eventscripts plugin itself is pretty stable.

As for the sourcemod plugin - well it is not a very simple plugin, but rather a lego set to build in the functions you want for your server. And this "chat fix" is just another lego brick
The basic installation of sourcemod includes already some parts doing the same things as mani.

I assume you run mani and would like to run it further. I do not have experience how sourcemod runs together with mani. We run it instead of mani (and instead of mattie), but implementing specific functions similar to those in mani requires a lot of handwork. Nevertheless your might think of giving up mani some time .
For what is available in sourcemod, look in this section:
http://forums.alliedmods.net/forumdisplay.php?f=108

Anyways, you can try, if you want, to install sourcemod parallel to mani. For this go to:
http://sourcemod.net
and read:
http://wiki.alliedmods.net/Installing_SourceMod
on how to install it.

In order to get chat working, copy this file:
http://space-in.de/steambob/rechat.smx
to your plugins subdirectory of the sourcemod directory tree and either restart server or type sm plugins load rechat in HLSW console.

The source code for this "chat fix" can be seen here:
http://space-in.de/steambob/rechat.sp
(should be normally put into scripting subdirectory of the sourcemod directory tree) and is actually based on swear replacement code here:
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=499584

Many thanks for that script.