democam suggestions/request

Bwadmin mod has some interesting cameras in observer mode ones that track palyers as they move and flag too. if this is possible to do using this script it would make for some nice movies.

reallllly?

tani:cat:

So, did anyone ever made more observer options (3rd view, flag view etc) to democam (other than multiple cameras)? Been searching the forums but did not find anything.

There's Freaky's Actioncam.. :)

To answer your question, observer views are controlled serverside. Do you need it with democam though, since you can move around freely already..?

I would like to follow a player in 3rd view within a demo. Also the distance where you observe the player from would be nice to be alterable<sp> (I'm after smooooooth camera runs). And when in free observer mode I would like to set the speed (+/- toggle, I know this is doable at least via the editor) how fast I travel in the demo. These I would like be implemented in the democam.

What is actioncam?

I would like to follow a player in 3rd view within a demo. Also the distance where you observe the player from would be nice to be alterable<sp> (I'm after smooooooth camera runs). And when in free observer mode I would like to set the speed (+/- toggle, I know this is doable at least via the editor) how fast I travel in the demo. These I would like be implemented in the democam.

What is actioncam?
You wanna set the speed, aka timescale? Many scripts out there for that if you don't have time to write a simple 5 line function for it yourself.

Actioncam is built into Fstat.. I'm sure you've seen it. Doesn't matter though since you can't use it when viewing a demo, which is what you're after right? I don't think what you're asking is possible, since you need to be in the recording to be an observer object in it, and the editor doesn't have observer functionality. I hope someone proves me wrong though. :)

No I don't mean the playpack speed of the demo (if by timescale you mean that). I mean the speed you're travelling freely within a demo with the democam when demo is playing back in 1:1 or in what ever slow motion rate. If I go to editor, there's an option to set your view's speed when you hit the movement keys. It stores that speed and carries it over to regular free observing movement speed. I want to set that speed with x/y keys, not always from the editor. It should be a some sort of variable in tribes.

So when watching a demo, changing from one's 1st person view to 3rd person view is not possible (aka make democam follow the player's coordinates from a distance, which would be nice to be user determinable<sp>)?

with democan u can define the speed u travel in the demo independent from the current demo speed. afaik i already saw u using the function when u released the matrix line szene a while ago.

for the observing in 3rd person or something you´d probably need to get the data from inside the demo and generate a movement map and sync that when watching the demo asit shouldn´t b possible to get the data via script...actually i don´t really know if this would be possible somehow but when i tried to "record" caproutes by sending all my input data (like movement key presses and mouse use!!!!big mofo) to variables and then use that "movement map" when going to a certain startpoint and recreate the route by just pressing a "start button".

something that could be possible is to create such a "movement map" to perform a decent smooth circle or some other kind of move to get rid the shacking you´ll get by moving the democam with the mouse.

....i m looking forward to see if this leads anywhere, definately an interessting point.

Yea this: http://drunkenoldfarts.com/~lumo/MAt1rix.avi

But I have fixed camera speed when I chase the player. I want to adjust my speed via +/- toggles somehow. This script doesn't have to do anything with the democam script.

Cliff notes: Can someone code me a script which alter the travelling speed of the observer view.

(Damn I was hoping the 3rd person view to democam was doable)

Ok, I just double checked and the speed you set in the editor for the observer view doesn't carry over to normal observing speed after all. But if I can set it in the editor (just hit number keys 1-9), it should be scriptable to normal observing too, right?

like while watching a guy that plays RIGHT now?
where is the advantage?

Howdy,
i d like to ask if it was possible to increase the free-view sliding speed of the observer view as it isn´t possible to observer games wwith those fast gameplay nowadays. Tribes built-in observer speed always gets on the last rank if there is a race between capper, chasers and the observer.

Mayb some tuning might change that situation. Possible or unswitchable?

Hmm, idea is very good indeed. Not sure if it's possible though. I belive it's clientside, but I'll look into it.

...idk