MOTD like the ASSMOD one

[riki137]

I think most important to make able that people can't close it after 0.0ms of loading.
Let's make configurable 3 seconds when "Close" button will appear.
Also with darker background it will look nice.
I dont want to use ASSMod since i like ULX much more, but adding ASSMod just for a motd is weird and bad.
People aren't reading what contains MOTD.

[JamminR]

The colors of the motd are controlled by you. Edit your ulx_motd.txt to contain html color tags and you can set it to any color you want.
As for the delayed button, it's a decent idea and been suggested before. Perhaps it will be done sometime.

[riki137]

i mean dark blured background.
and i will be so happy when the delayed button willl be since nobody is reading motd

[JamminR]

i mean dark blured background.

That's what I'm saying. Learn html. Put it in your motd. Change any color you want. Foreground. Background. Text. Whatever.

[jay209015]

I think he's talking about outside of the HTML window. It blurs the everything but the MOTD.

[Stickly Man!]

That's an easy few lines of code:

In ulx\lua\ulx\modules\cl\motdmenu.lua:

Find this piece of code at line 16:

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window:MakePopup()Then add these lines beneath it:

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window:SetBackgroundBlur( true )
window:SetDrawOnTop( true )
window:DoModal()
:SetBackgroundBlur is the only thing you really need for the blur effect, the other lines of code just make it so it's always on top, and that you can't switch to any other VGUI/Derma menus.

[JamminR]

I think he's talking about outside of the HTML window. It blurs the everything but the MOTD.

OH!
[sarcasm] Then why didn't he say so! [/sarcasm]

Actually though, a bit more detail like "around the html box, the rest of the game/world/map image is blurred to not be seen" would have been helpful for me.

Stick, is it really "Modal" and not "Model"?
(I'm not the derma master like you...just askin!)

[Stickly Man!]

Yup: http://luabin.foszor.com/code/addons/derma/lua/derma/derma_utils.lua#89
(That's the code for Derma_Message(), which makes a quick blurred popup that you see in gmod)

More info: http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Panel.DoModal