[Mod] Spectator Mode [git] [spectator_mode]

[jp]

A simple mod allowing you to watch and continuously follow the other players in their 3rd person view.
You're invisible and undetectable for the players when you're in this mode.

Can be useful for admins or moderators in their task of monitoring.

Requires the privilege "watch".

Commands :

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/watch <player name>
/unwatch (get back to your initial position)

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[benrob0329]

Nice! Could you make it so that you can watch a givin coordanince?

I see a Mesecons camera system in the making....

[jp]

Could you make it so that you can watch a givin coordanince?

No.

[firefox]

cool =(0.0)=

but since the targeted player doesn't know when being watched, you should rename it to "Stalker" ;)

[prof-turbo]

Nice !
The actual existing spectators modes are very buggy in PvP games/modes.
Thanks a lot !

[programmingchicken]

Made my first pull request, and I think it's pretty useful! :DDD

[kaadmy]

Cool! :D

[jp]

Update : the watcher is now able to switch of player while already watching someone. Thanks to programmingchicken for the idea.

[programmingchicken]

Was an easy fix but I didn't look into it well enough lol

[Fixerol]

Trololo! This is very good and useful, what is TODO for now? Also, make it able to fly on its own (without attach to play), that will be VERY-VERY useful :}

[jp]

No TODO actually, I don't have a big ambition for this mod.

[luizrpgluiz]

you can create a new command to see first person with the camera fixed on the player? For you will be very complicated to program it?

[Fixerol]

Does it work if the watched person deep in the cave around the blocks?

[jp]

Does it work if the watched person deep in the cave around the blocks?

You can use F7 for avoid the black screen in tight areas. The 3rd person view makes the camera "collide-able" with the nodes.

[maikerumine]

Hello!

I just tested this out and found a few bugs:

*on exit of game as watcher the game crashes.
*on unwatch, watcher is teleported to the person being watched.
*during watch mode you are able to break all nodes and even hurt the player.

[jp]

Trying to reproduce and working on this.

EDIT: seems like the troublemaker was the latest feature added. Now reverted.

[amadin]

This is good anti-griefing mod if you suspect of griefing or cheating someone. Also its presence on the server can terrify their :)

[Fixerol]

Looks like if you have hunger mod, it will show double one over your hud after watching someone with it.
Another problem, if someone you watch leaves the server, you will stay as a ghost on that place.

[jp]

Looks like if you have hunger mod, it will show double one over your hud after watching someone with it.

I know, Hunger mod uses HUD elements in a special manner it seems.
Second problem is not fixable without checking within a globalstep (meaning more lag).

Anyways I won't bother to fix this. Don't expect much from me for this mod.

[neoascetic]

Here is another one: https://github.com/krondor-game/spectator

[Minetestforfun]

The MinetestForFun Team [spectator_mode] improved from the jp's mod : https://github.com/MinetestForFun/serve ... tator_mode

New features listed here : https://github.com/MinetestForFun/serve ... /issues/79

[jp]

Update : project moved on Minetest Mods.