spectator switching/1st person

[CarbonCookies]

This is more of an enhancement

1. when spectating, sometimes I don't automatically go into the 1st person view, and I can't see any "1st person" button available.
2. after I start spectating, I often have to keep clicking until I reach the person I want, but sometimes I click too much, and I overclick. Could be fixed with arrow keys (right-forward(user# goes up) and left-back(user#goes down)) to switch spectating between different people

[feikname]

Maybe adding an option to spectate someone by clicking on them on the Scoreboard would also be an nice feature.

[CarbonCookies]

after pressing "esc", a clickable player list come up? (aswell as the other options), could also fix #417

[feikname]

@CarbonCookies more like after pressing whichever key is assigned to the Scoreboard, display it in a clickable manner with additional options.

Similiar to Team Fortress 2 with mouse input enabled scoreboard, but without the nasty bugs that Valve has refused to fix for a long time already.

[CarbonCookies]

But you need to keep in mind that while in the game, the mouse is always in the middle, where the crosshairs are, so you wouldn't be able to click on much. Of course this could be fixed by locking the crosshairs and allow free movement of the mouse, until either escape, "Back to game", or a players name is clicked.

[CarbonCookies]

My idea is something like this:

But more professional, using the same fonts as normal, etc. clicking on a link will say "Copied to Clipboard!" , like when it says "Deuce34 has captured the intel". Clicking on an username will close the menu, and start 1st person spectating. Clicking once will go into the free fly mode, clicking again (or using arrows) will cycle through 3rd person perspectives on other people. It may also contain a scroll bar within the chatbox.

However, I'm not sure how hard this would be.

[feikname]

With OpenSpades miminum supported resolution, 800x600, the available horizontal and vertical space is way too small to display an reasonable amount of useful information. And I personally like to play with this resolution in windowed mode, so it's a no-no to me.

Displaying the Chat alongside the menu makes no sense to me, its already to possible to see it while in-game, and if you have to search for an really older message, just use the Chat Log GUI.

Implementing my suggestion of an keyboard shortcut for opening it and 100best's one to copy text on it and make URLs clickable would make it quite easy to access it with in a very practical way.

It'd use the same number of keystrokes required to access the menu, and with way more relevant information related to what the user wants: The chat log. Same thing for the Scoreboard, with the exception that you need to hold the TAB key instead of pressing it once.

Also, someone would have to basically reimplement the scoreboard and chat windows, while making the menu code unnecessarily more complicatad than it needs to be. To put this much work on it, its easier to just free the crosshair and make the Scoreboard clickable on specator mode by default.

Sorry for the lengthy ranting :/

TL;DR: Holding TAB and clicking on a player which will probably be visible from the start sounds better than pressing ESC and scrolling until you find it. Also, re-implementing the Scoreboard and the Chat makes no sense to me.

EDIT: Made the text shorter by removing some paragraphs that weren't much relevant to my point.

[CarbonCookies]

My bad, I didn't think about that at all. Your idea about shortcuts and TAB opening scoreboard and freeing mouse would be much easier, I fully agree with you there. To be honest, I never even saw the "Chat Log" button.
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