Using the "external" view is limited by the server difficulty setting. Instead the spectator external camera has been replaced with an oribtal camera as was originally planned to be added alongside the default views.
- Use a display rather than a dialog (contextually makes more sense).
- Move the entry/exit functionality to the setSpectator function. Preserves the handleInterface function for purely display related events and makes more sense.
- Fix missing semi-colon
A public API system to allow external systems to interrupt and resume the spectator interface. Also made use of it for the escape menu and zeus support.
If the spectator camera unit was set before the camera had ever opened then the unit list wouldn't be populated and as such the camera would automatically abort to free mode since the unit wasn't available to spectate.
So now I'm running the updateUnits function before opening the camera to pre-populate the list.
Type 0 worked, but the mission didn't end when all players were killed.
Type 1 didn't work because isPlayer isn't true for seagulls. So spectator virtual state is now entirely unassociated from objects in the game.
Having the help window in the centre of the screen blocked too much of the users view and also clashed with the MPTable element (the table that appears on death, aka "respawnDialog"). It was moved to the right of the screen and now mirrors the unit list. To save screen space, the action keys are given as tooltips for the listbox entries so users must mouse over for more info.
The old method of refreshing the tree on each update would reset all expanded/collapsed nodes. Now the code will cull any units/groups/sides no longer spectatable from the list and cache the ones that are still valid. The cached data is then used to populate the list with new units.
Add coloured unit icons beside units in the list for quick user reference of side and type.
Store group netIDs in respective nodes for possible use in code.
- Optimize and improve 3D icon drawing
- Combine 2D and 3D PFHs into 1
- Render group icons outside of 200m, unit icons within
- Store list of groups on units update to cut down on what needs to be done each frame
- Change map control type to 100 to remove all default unit icons
- Improve colour caching, group colours don't change, unit colours do
- Remove icon setting, toggling should be at users discretion
Now that booming the free camera is influenced by the camera speed, the keys should be whitelisted from the held-key prevention system to allow the speed to be adjusted on the move. Also includes a failed attempt to fix the free camera map teleporting functionality.
Previously the camera would be automatically moved away from corpses (when the unit currently being watched dies). This changes it to stay on them until the view is manually switched as users might want to stick around and watch whatever was going on at the time of death.
Hacking the BI respawn framework to support a spectator setting was intrusive and limiting. Instead of using a setting, I've opted to introduce a new respawn template that can be used within BI's respawn framework. The benefits of this approach are:
- Compatibility isn't a concern, that responsibility is shifted onto mission designers.
- Mission designers can use the functionality of the BI framework alongside the spectator system (combining templates, using different templates for different sides, etc.).
- If a custom respawn framework is used, then this doesn't change anything. Custom frameworks are still fully supported via the public functions provided.
- Remains simple to set up, just requires a description.ext edit
Seamlessly integrates the spectator system with the vanilla respawn framework when the onDeath setting is enabled. This commit makes a lot of changes:
- Edit BI functions used by the vanilla respawn framework to enable support for ace_spectator.
- Set spectator state is now tracked using a GVAR for the local player since using a unit won't be reliable all of the time. However unit is still marked for any filtering purposes.
- Instead of NV being used based on the sun to moon transition state by default, that functionality only takes place in the integrated system so that custom frameworks can do what they want.
- Seagull units are hidden when using framework integration since they're spawned by the engine with respawn type 1 and they just hang around undesirably
Using boolean instead of simply checking for the display. Checking for diplay was unreliable since it can be technically closed while theoretically open during the escape menu and such.
Vertical camera movement (boom) was previously at a constant speed. However this felt too slow at times, half the horizontal (dolly) speed should improve this.
