Spectate player

[armageddon]

This can be put on the far back burner, but I thought if it weren't too hard, would it be possible to make a command or cvar that allows you to spectate 1 person, so when they die, you can continue watching them? I've made my own mod that works, but it has to cycle through players until it finds the player again. Just an idea.

[Elgan]

I'm sure this could be done via script (mod) quite easily.

just improve your script.

ie...how is it working, what does it do, what does it not do you want it to do...

[armageddon]

Right now i have a admin menu button activate a keypress event. example keyp 7 for client #7. Then in keypress handler I make sure local.player is an admin. If so, then I basically exec this:

local.admin is the admin who wants to watch a player
local.player is the player being watched

while(blah blah blah)  //checking for spectate & other things
{
        local.inradius = vector_within local.admin.origin local.player.origin 130
    waitframe
    while(!local.inradius)
    {
               //blah blah blah....do some more checks to exit loop.

        local.admin stufftext "+use;-use"  // pressing use will go to next player in spectate.
        wait .3  // seems if I wait less, then sometimes the player can be skipped over cause it cycles thru too fast
        local.inradius = vector_within local.admin.origin local.player.origin 130
      }
} 

Basically what I wish it would do, is stay with that player the whole time.

I've tried going this route too to follow a player...

            local.origin = local.admin.origin
            local.viewangles = local.admin.viewangles
            local.admin nodamage
            local.admin hide
            local.admin notsolid
            local.admin noclip
        while(blah blah)
{
                local.admin.origin = local.player.origin - local.player.forwardvector * 56 //distance back
                local.admin.origin +=  ( 0 0 24 ) //dist up
} 

Problem with that is, that it is jumpy, and very annoying.

[Ley0k]

    local.camera = spawn Camera
    local.camera follow local.player
    local.camera targetname ("cam" + local.player.entnum)
    local.camerause = spawn trigger_camerause target ("cam" + local.player.entnum)
    local.camerause doUse local.admin
    local.camerause delete 

[armageddon]

Oh yeah, I've tried that before too. That is jumpy and annoying as well.

I actually like the first mod because it's not jumpy, but the other ways are. The only thing I don't like about the first one, is you have to wait .3 while cycling thru the players again. I wish it didn't stop spectating a player when they die, then I wouldn't have to keep cycling thru the players.

[Razo[R]apiD]

I'll see what I can do, but I want to release RC3 first. Then I can take care of new scripting commands.

[armageddon]

Definitely. Yes, don't make this a priority. I was just curious if it could be done easily.

Thanks!

[Elgan]

youre doing wrong if it stutters...?

local.camera follow local.player is not smooth?

[armageddon]

No. I've tried it before, and i just tried it again using the code he posted above, and it's not smooth. ?

[Elgan]

am I going to have to install mohaa :|..

even if you were updating the origin every frame it would be smooth.

ive used cams with planes and vehicles moving a lot faster than players and its been smooth.