ZScript Console Print for only 1 Player in coop

[peewee_RotA]

I am having a lot of trouble making heads or tails of all of the console print commands. I just want to print a string to the screen of one player if I have a reference to their actor. For example in TakeSpecialDamage I have the source actor, and I want to print a message only to that player's screen.

Pretty much only the ACS versions of print commands are fully documented. The majority of all printing to the screen (like item pickups) seems to be behind native functions, and the remaining examples are in the StatusBar code and seem to be a dead end. All of the existing versions of Print I can find print to all players in the coop game. So I'm wondering if there is any resource anywhere that explains how the console print commands work in ZSCRIPT and how they can be scoped only to a single actor (if that actor is a player of course)

Here's the code snippet so far:

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const SNEAK_ATTACK_BONUS = 3.0;
class MyBaseMonsterClass : Actor
{
...
	override int TakeSpecialDamage(Actor inflictor, Actor source, int damage, Name damagetype)
	{
		let hereticPlayer = CustomPlayerClass(source);
		if (hereticPlayer)
		{
			//Sneak attack
			if (target != hereticPlayer)
			{
				damage *= SNEAK_ATTACK_BONUS;
				Console.Printf("Surprise Attack!"); //Want this to print only to the hereticPlayer actor
					
				sneakDelay = 0;
			}
		}
		
		return Super.TakeSpecialDamage(inflictor, source, damage, damagetype);
	}	
...
}

[Jarewill]

ZScript can also make use of DECORATE's A_Print functions.
You can try using this:

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source.A_Print("Surprise Attack!");

This will make the source actor use the A_Print function, printing a text on their screen.

[peewee_RotA]

Awesome! Thanks!