I made this a little while back, thought I'd share.

Basically, it's a replacement intel model featuring a large floating arrow pointing downward toward the intel itself, accompanied by other indicators.

Pic:
http://i.imgur.com/kSPvQ.png

This is useful in a situation where the opponent has built over their intel, providing an easy and recognizable way to locate it. The color of the ring above the arrow corresponds with the team color. The whole assembly extends about 11 blocks above the intel.

This may be kind of cheating, but you can already see the intel vertically through blocks anyway. I didn't go so far as to add horizontal arrows.

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?b63zoco41cqaeb4

Enjoy, tell me what you think!

Edit: Made another model, this one has the entire arrow as the team color instead of just being orange.

Pic, featuring team colored arrow and the entire thing in action:
http://i.imgur.com/5m8yF.png

Team colored arrow model download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6aflhyq42c10rj7

Mixed feelings about this.

I don't believe the intel model should change.

I do believe, however, that we should have a blinking intel icon on the map to do away with the juvenile "decoys".

Yeah the decoys are annoying, but this is a bit excessive.

I agree with a blinking intel icon. I guess this is pretty cheap, but it's out there if anyone wants to use it for something, or alter it.

I was expecting it to be more along the lines of like the arrow being 50 blocks above the intel. As it stands, this isn't even that useful.

This one time, in Egypt, decoys were used to hide the Suez canal from Axis night bombers

http://www.cracked.com/article_19170_6-insane-stories-magician-who-helped-win-wwii_p2.html

Not sure slab6 would allow it to go that high.

I find that it helps the intel become visible from a longer distance, especially if it's below your level.

Decoys being used in real life are different from ones that are meant to be seen on a map. It's supposed to be a symbol on a map, and I don't think it should be hide-able.

It just feels like exploitation of the interface to me.

An idea I just had, is to have all the game files stored server-side. The server would draw upon the files in the server op's install folder, to be used by all players. This would give no player an unfair advantage over another, and also the server owner could apply a special theme to a map.

The unfair advantages like attaching really long things to everybody's gun so it sticks out of walls.

That could be better managed by simply limiting gun size to specific dimensions.

Make intel the shape of a player model, congratulations, it's no longer ctf, but hostage rescue.

Kaede, everybody wanted to make more detailed guns a while back, and recently that's something the community is lacking, i've yet to see TheOperator post any new models, and I've been making things here and there, but nothing too much.

If all the game files become stored server-side, it'll slow the game down a bit (your computer would have to consult the server to render anything at all) and kill the fun modding community.

Some imposed limits would be nice, but I still think "within reason" modding should be an option.

Wow Noire, cool idea. They could even be wearing civilian clothes or something.

PS- There's a Mr. Noire playing on one of the servers. He isn't you, apparantly.

Except for the fact that it'd still be a spinning floating thing, and carrying it would look awkward. And it'd still announce it on the server as "So and so captured the blue intel!"

I would be willing to accept the above-mentioned absurdities.

Me too. Maybe.

Make the intel a model from the GIRL mod.

Done.
No deuce builders any more.