From: terencehill <piuntn@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:10:20 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Switch to 3rd person mode camera for a moment when changing spectated player so to... 
X-Git-Tag: xonotic-v0.8.5~1845^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic%2Fxonotic-data.pk3dir.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f5050e0bb2ac3f17572fac6f98eded6c037b058

Switch to 3rd person mode camera for a moment when changing spectated player so to help recognizing players in a more intuitive way
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diff --git a/qcsrc/client/autocvars.qh b/qcsrc/client/autocvars.qh
index 9c63f43126..0654418702 100644
--- a/qcsrc/client/autocvars.qh
+++ b/qcsrc/client/autocvars.qh
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ float autocvar_cl_hitsound_min_pitch = 0.75;
 float autocvar_cl_hitsound_max_pitch = 1.5;
 float autocvar_cl_hitsound_nom_damage = 25;
 float autocvar_cl_hitsound_antispam_time;
+int autocvar_cl_eventchase_spectated_change = 1;
 int autocvar_cl_eventchase_death = 1;
 float autocvar_cl_eventchase_distance = 140;
 bool autocvar_cl_eventchase_frozen = false;
diff --git a/qcsrc/client/defs.qh b/qcsrc/client/defs.qh
index 22cbc1a2df..5204e8f36d 100644
--- a/qcsrc/client/defs.qh
+++ b/qcsrc/client/defs.qh
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ float nb_pb_period;
 // 0 - playing
 // >0 - id of spectated player
 float spectatee_status;
+float spectatee_status_changed_time;
 
 // short mapname
 string shortmapname;
diff --git a/qcsrc/client/main.qc b/qcsrc/client/main.qc
index 6844b1e078..955cfa7ff3 100644
--- a/qcsrc/client/main.qc
+++ b/qcsrc/client/main.qc
@@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ NET_HANDLE(ENT_CLIENT_CLIENTDATA, bool isnew)
 		race_laptime = 0;
 		race_checkpointtime = 0;
 		hud_dynamic_shake_factor = -1;
+		spectatee_status_changed_time = time;
 	}
 	if (autocvar_hud_panel_healtharmor_progressbar_gfx)
 	{
diff --git a/qcsrc/client/view.qc b/qcsrc/client/view.qc
index ff9b47cbcd..9e7ecb67cd 100644
--- a/qcsrc/client/view.qc
+++ b/qcsrc/client/view.qc
@@ -827,6 +827,9 @@ bool WantEventchase(entity this)
 			}
 			else return true;
 		}
+		if (spectatee_status > 0 && autocvar_cl_eventchase_spectated_change
+			&& time <= spectatee_status_changed_time + 0.5)
+			return true;
 	}
 	return false;
 }
diff --git a/xonotic-client.cfg b/xonotic-client.cfg
index af69bbb214..ed81e0fb55 100644
--- a/xonotic-client.cfg
+++ b/xonotic-client.cfg
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ seta cl_hitsound_min_pitch 0.75 "minimum pitch of hit sound"
 seta cl_hitsound_max_pitch 1.5 "maximum pitch of hit sound"
 seta cl_hitsound_nom_damage 25 "damage amount at which hitsound bases pitch off"
 
+seta cl_eventchase_spectated_change 1 "camera goes into 3rd person mode for a moment when changing spectated player"
 seta cl_eventchase_death 1 "camera goes into 3rd person mode when the player is dead; set to 2 to active the effect only when the corpse doesn't move anymore"
 seta cl_eventchase_frozen 0 "camera goes into 3rd person mode when the player is frozen"
 seta cl_eventchase_nexball 1 "camera goes into 3rd person mode when in nexball game-mode"