/specteam

[kaitlynia]

I ran this idea by some people so I wanna try feature acceptance here first.

Currently, it's very annoying to spectate teams. You can't use free view, or else you have to see switch state for team 0 instead and all other teams in the same area are distracting. You get sick using multi view because tees sometimes teleport erratically, and it's hard to debounce this without affecting spec latency.

My proposed fix for this is to be able to select a team to spectate with either a command, or apply this logic when enabled via settings with a disabled default, like tc_better_teamspec 0

If you go the command route, it should /spec like normal. If you switch to free view, it should still show only that team and only that team's switch state. Up until you spec a new team or stop spectating, the logic follows. If you go the setting route, it would apply to anyone you choose to spectate, and switching to free view would not revert until you stop spectating.

Rationale: This is extremely desirable for watching teams in free view generally, but also kinda required for watching Volleyball games. Multi view is really hard on the eyes and spectating the ball is not much better.

edit: Bonus points if you have an option to control the alpha of other teams

[SollyBunny]

The server side implementation is here ddnet#10435

Whatever happens something like this should be upstreamed, but I am aware that upstream can be a bit annoying (see /specid, one of my most used commands).

I would do it by adding an f1 command you bind (optionally overriding the server /specteam)

[SollyBunny]

edit: Bonus points if you have an option to control the alpha of other teams

showothers alpha is already a thing?

[kaitlynia]

well, i mean to enforce that when using the command. some people may want those values to be different so its more obvious you're in specteam.