Announcer

Plugin to post Steam group announcements from the comfort of the game chat.

Client Commands

• sm_an [message] Posts an announcements with the message as title, if a message is not specified it will post the previous announcement.

ConVars

Mandatory

• an_steamgroupid ID of the Steam Group where announcements are meant to be posted. How to get your group ID. (default = "")

Optional

• an_uppercase Changes the announcement title to upper-case. (default = 0)

• an_callerinfo Displays client profile and Steam ID in the announcement description. (default = 1)

• an_serverinfo Displays server name, n° of players and IP in the announcement description. (default = 1)

• an_revealpassword Displays server password in the announcement description. (default = 0)

• an_redirecturl URL pointing to a Steam Browser Protocol forwarder. This allows you to display the "Join Server" link. This is explained in detail below. (default = "")

• an_extrainfo Extra text to add at the start of the announcement description. (default = "")

Legend

an_redirecturl

Now the redirect URL is just an URL pointing to a site hosting r.html which function is to receive the server IP, Port and Password as GET parameters and redirect the user to the server with a Steam Browser Protocol request (steam://connect/...), the reason to do this is because Steam doesn't allow Steam redirects inside its own site, it's dumb i know.

For example if you host r.html in your dropbox public folder, you would have:

an_redirecturl "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69397859/r.html"

Then in the announcement description the "Click Here to Join" link:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69397859/r.html?ip=233.143.43.54&port=27015

And finally this page, would redirect you to the server:

steam://connect/233.143.43.54:27015/

Install

Requirements

• A working version of Sourcemod.
• SteamCore library plugin.

DON'T FORGET TO SETUP STEAMCORE
When you fulfil the requirements, just install as any other plugin, copy announcer.smx inside the plugins folder in your sourcemod directory.

Download

Compiled versions: announcer.smx.

If you want to compile the code yourself you have to add the include file steamcore.inc (from SteamCore, duh) inside scripting/include and then compile. (You can't use includes with the online compiler)

Known Bugs

• When a profile name contains a website its not displayed, instead just the profile permalink is displayed. This happens beacuase there can not be an URL inside an URL, and i can't do anything about it.

Changelog

[04/02/2015] v1.0

• Initial Release.

[05/02/2015] v1.1

• Added Cvar an_extrainfo.

[29/03/2015] v1.2

• [steamcore] Fixed critical bug that made announcements stopped working after a few calls.
• Fixed wrong eror messages being displayed.
• More detailed information on error messages.
• Added sm_announce as an alias for sm_an.
• Long profile names are now displayed correctly on the announcements description.

[08/05/2015] v1.3

• More detailed response phrases.
• Added map name and connect command to the announcement description.
• Fixed error of an invalid client index thrown when client disconnected before receiving the response.

[12/06/2015] v1.4

• Added Cvar an_uppercase.

[02/02/2017] v1.5

• [steamcore] Fixed critical bug caused by outdated method to post announcements.

[21/08/2017] v1.6

• Updated to the new SteamCore syntax.