Add visual notification for client chatting.

[jdolan]

It'd be nice if you could tell when someone is chatting. The client could send the server a command when the player enters/exits messagemode. The server should then link a model (sprite) to that client so that others will see an icon or whatever (like Quake3).

[jdolan]

After some additional thought, this would be best suited via toggling a userinfo cvar on the client doing the chatting. The server would capture this toggle and set an EF_CHAT effect flag on the client's entitiy that would be sent back to all the other players. The client would have to be modified to display the effect with a sprite just above the player model. I think this is a couple hours worth of work.

[maci]

imho this should apply for more than chatting, also for console, so you can see if someone is setting some stuff or so

[wickedshell]

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