How do you give dead players spectator view until round restart?

[symplegades]

How do you give dead players spectator view until round restart?

[Temerity]

Wooooo counter-strike cloan action!

I'd look at the death function and add this in

StartObserverMode( OBS_MODE_ROAMING );


I'm not sure exactly what OBS_MODE_ROAMING is, I got this form the Spawn code in hl2mp_player.cpp.

Then assuming you have it setup to spawn the player only when the round restarts, the next time the player is spawned, he'll be put back to normal.

[Temerity]

actually,

// Spectator Movement modes
enum {
OBS_MODE_NONE = 0, // not in spectator mode
OBS_MODE_DEATHCAM, // special mode for detah cam animation
OBS_MODE_FIXED, // view from a fixed camera position
OBS_MODE_IN_EYE, // follow a player in first perosn view
OBS_MODE_CHASE, // follow a player in third person view
OBS_MODE_ROAMING, // free roaming
};

[symplegades]

awesome!

but is that able to be called from lua?
i only have access to the lua scripting, but not the engine.

[symplegades]

I found this and put it in my lua:

Player:Spectate( OBS_MODE_ROAMING )

function spectate( ply, ent )
ply:Spectate( OBS_MODE_ROAMING )
ply:SpectateEntity( ent )
end



but when it's called, console gives this error:

Error calling player_killed (no static 'Spectate' in class 'Player') ent: NULL


player class

[Ging]

What are you working with that only gives you access to the Lua? GMod?

[Marine]

Yeah, that's gmod Lua.

Head on over to irc://irc.gamesurge.net/gmod or irc://irc.gamesurge.net/luahelp . They can help you more than we can.

[symplegades]

thank you

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