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Offline PAL-18

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Name Change
« on: May 14, 2013, 04:57:29 PM »
The ability to change the name of players would be great.

P.S. This has already been requested before, but rather than necro'ing an 8 year old thread i figured i would make a new one.
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Re: Name Change
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2013, 06:52:13 PM »
This is not possible in gmod anymore since garry switched over to steam names.

The only way a server has any control over a player's name is if the server has some kind of custom name display, like some RP servers.
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Re: Name Change
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2013, 02:20:06 AM »
Thing is though, in TF2/CSS, i could do that in Sourcemod and Gmod uses the same (albeit customized) engine.

The name changes in TF2/CSS only lasted for the duration of the map and when it changed it displayed whatever the user had set in their Steam.
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Re: Name Change
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2013, 02:45:39 AM »
I'm fairly sure that you can't do it in garrysmod. I don't even think a player can change their own name in the console anymore. I might be wrong though.
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Re: Name Change
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2013, 02:50:53 PM »
As far as I know this was only possible with SM (Unfortunately)

I guess you could modify the chat, but that'd break gamemodes like TTT.
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Re: Name Change
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2013, 07:28:11 PM »
We generally avoid modifying chat.
Too many other addons attempt to modify, only some with partial success, and others that totally foul up other working chat code.
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