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drneau · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: Alerts in v3 - finalizing

Alright, I'm finalizing the alert mechanism for v3 and wanted to bounce it off anyone who cares for feedback.

For all alerts, you'll be able to specify:

Alerts for v3 break down into two categories:

Category 1: Simple alerts

Category 2: Time-based alerts
Time-based alerts are of four types:

You can create MULTIPLE of each of these, if you want. So, in v3, you could create an alert for 10 minutes to end of break, another for 5, another for 3, etc. etc. And each one could have a different audio.

Now: Can you think of any other alert types that would be nice to have.
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rastapete · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject:

Don't forget the notorious Personal Elimination Sounds!

drneau · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject:

Dix · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject:

Would the "In the money" elimination have a possibility of displaying the amount won along with the rest of the on-screen info?
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drneau · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

Ranman · "A Set of Mop Squeezers" Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 59

How about an alert sound when a table balance or consolidation is needed? I sometimes turn away as I hit the "eliminator" button and don't notice the tables need balanced until I go back to the table, sit down and see the message on the screen.

As for image use...
I use a scrolling marque with the eliminated players names with their finish place moving accross the screen. Maybe their pic could move across. It would be funny if I could get a pic of them pouting or something to use when it happens.

Addicted · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

Would it be possible to set-up alerts that would also cause the clock to pause? For example, we pause the clock when a table consolidation is needed. Would it be possible to set an alert that was triggered by the need for a table consolidation and include a "pause clock" option?

BTW, very cool mechanism for assigning images and sounds to specific players. Including a player image potentially opens up a lot of new possibilities: For example,
Will we be able to set up an end of game console screen that displays the winner's image?
Or a banner at the bottom of the screen that shows the image for all remaining (or eliminated) players?
Or an overlay that displays table assignments by showing the player's image?
You could even make a cool elimination overlay display that shows the image of the eliminator together with an image of the eliminated player with a "no smoking" type strikeout image over the picture of the eliminated player.
Lots of new possibilities here.

drneau · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject:

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boschie · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:43 am Post subject:

There was a topic about a different sound (not randomly) for each new blind. Is this possible now?

drneau · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:29 am Post subject:

drneau · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:19 am Post subject:

s.mortensen · "Ace High" Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 9

Hello Doctor.

I mentioned this earlier in another thread.
It would be cool if an alert could pop up when a player is moved!

I'm hosting MTT's with tables in different rooms.
It would be awesome if the players would be able to see when they are moved.

Thanks

muted79 · "Ace High" Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 5

would it be possible to set up an audio/text alert to appear at random times during the tournament? Let's say an alert of when the next tournament is on, reminding players food and drink is available at the bar, etc?

Could be at random times of certain levels if easier than doing at random times of the whole tournament.

drneau · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

Worked on alerts last night.

Updates:
- "Audio location" and "Message location" attributes are gone. Now, if an alert exists, it just has an "Active" property that you can set.

There are now 5 types of time-based alerts:
"Time to Start of Play" - Fires X seconds before the first play level.
"Time to End of Play" - Fires X seconds before the end of the last play level. (probably rarely used)
"Time to Start of Break" - Fires X seconds before a break begins.
"Time to End of Break" - Fires X seconds before the end of a break...and only fires if the current segment is a break.
"Time to Next Level" - Fires X seconds before the end of a play segment...and only fires if the next segment is also a play segment.

Those last two are new, in case it isn't obvious.

Also, random audios are tested and working great.
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