Checking which player spectating player is spectating.

[ZZYZX]

You can query spectator's nickname serverside. You can query spectator's GetUserCVar serverside. With additional scripting you can even have their position dynamically updated on the server so you can interact with things while being a spectator. (to a limited extent of course).
They are players. This is important. Randcaps work because of this. Don't say "spectators aren't players". Things such as this are important to distinguish for advanced ACS. Blurry humanitarian terminology isn't applicable in programming, it only causes confusion.
This is what ZzZombo was trying to say. Not "look at me I know the engine better".

[SwordGrunt]

You can query spectator's nickname serverside. You can query spectator's GetUserCVar serverside. With additional scripting you can even have their position dynamically updated on the server so you can interact with things while being a spectator. (to a limited extent of course).
They are players. This is important. Randcaps work because of this. Don't say "spectators aren't players". Things such as this are important to distinguish for advanced ACS. Blurry humanitarian terminology isn't applicable in programming, it only causes confusion.
This is what ZzZombo was trying to say. Not "look at me I know the engine better".

They're obviously players and have their own variables since they are running zandronum.exe and joined a server. Does that change the fact they can't interact with the physical game world? They aren't a doomguy in-game, they're an invisible camera that can do nothing but fly around, even if they're a doomguy with a spectator flag in the source code. By coding spectator position updating on the server you are literally going against the entire concept of a spectator in Skulltag/Zandronum that is to cause as little network traffic as possible.

I think everything was made pretty damn clear to people who could be interested in knowing so there's no point in dragging this out any further.

[ibm5155]

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script 10 enter{// show who's spectating you
    int mypos;
    int otherpos;
    int i=0;
    int x,y,z;
    while(true){
        x = GetActorX(1000+playernumber());
        y = GetActorY(1000+playernumber());
        z = +GetActorZ(1000+playernumber());
        for(i=0;i<64;i++){
            if(i!=playernumber()){
                if(abs(abs(x) -abs(PX[i])) <= 10.0){
                    if(abs(abs(y)-abs(PY[i])) <= 10.0){
                        if(abs(abs(z)-abs(PZ[i])) <= 10.0){
                            acs_executealways(11,0,i,i);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        delay(1);
    }
}


script 11 (int name,int i) clientside{
    if(activatortid()-1000!=consoleplayernumber())
        terminate;
    hudMessage(n:i,s:" is spectating you";HUDMSG_PLAIN,0,CR_WhiTE,0.5,0.5+(i*0.01),1.0);
}

each spectator shold have his position stored over the PX,PY and PZ array, I don't think there's a way for doing that without using my modified zandronum bin.

Here's the code that I used to get the player's câmera pos

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script 7 open clientside{//Update Spectators position to the server
    int ox,oy,oz;
    int x,y,z;
    ox = GetCameraX();
    oy = GetCameraY();
    oz = GetCameraZ();
    x = ox;
    y = oy;
    z = oz;
    while(true){
        x = GetCameraX();
        y = GetCameraY();
        z = GetCameraZ();
        if(x != ox || y != oy || z != oz){ // don't update the server if the position doesn't have changed
            ox = x;
            oy = y;
            oz = z;
            RequestScriptPuke(8,consoleplayeRnumber(),x,y);
            RequestScriptPuke(88,consoleplayeRnumber(),z,GetCameraAngle());
            RequestScriptPuke(89,consoleplayeRnumber(),GetCameraPitch(),0);
        }
        delay(1);
    }
}

script 8 (int activator,int x,int y) NET{// receive spectators position
   // printbold(s:"activator 8:",d:activator, s:" X:",f:x,s:" y:",f:y);
    PX[activator] = x;
    PY[activator] = y;
}

script 88 (int activator,int z,int angle) NET{// receive spectators position
   // printbold(s:"activator 88:",d:activator,s:" Z:", f:z);
    PZ[activator] = z;
    PAngle[activator] = angle;
}

with that you could know witch players or spectors are coop spying you

[ZzZombo]

I can create actors that also can't react with the game world. Hell, puffs, particle fountains, map spots and trails already don't. Does it make them non-actors?

[Ænima]

r u guys still splitting hairs over this

[SwordGrunt]

r u guys still splitting hairs over this

It's just a typical 13 year old that wants to have the last word at all costs, I already let him have it so hopefully no more time will be wasted here

[Ænima]

r u guys still splitting hairs over this

It's just a typical 13 year old that wants to have the last word at all costs, I already let him have it so hopefully no more time will be wasted here

he was right though ...

[SwordGrunt]

r u guys still splitting hairs over this

It's just a typical 13 year old that wants to have the last word at all costs, I already let him have it so hopefully no more time will be wasted here

he was right though ...

Yeah usually when you ignore everything someone says except the part you wish to correct, you end up being "right"

[Ænima]

r u guys still splitting hairs over this

It's just a typical 13 year old that wants to have the last word at all costs, I already let him have it so hopefully no more time will be wasted here

he was right though ...

Yeah usually when you ignore everything someone says except the part you wish to correct, you end up being "right"

I re-read both yours and his first posts in this thread and I can't find anything fundamentally "wrong" about what he said.

as spectators aren't technically players.

as spectators aren't technically players.

as spectators aren't technically players.

technically

uw0tm8?

Technically, spectators do not have a physical game world actor like players do. So that is entirely correct, as spectators are potential players in the server but not for the game engine.

Spectators do have a physical actor ... It exists in the level whether it's significant or not.

It seems like you guys are just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing. I'm not sure what kind of "technicality" totally negates the existence of a spectator's body. It either exists or it doesn't.

[Ru5tK1ng]

My favorite part is this is still going on even though the author already got his question answered.

[SwordGrunt]

My favorite part is this is still going on even though the author already got his question answered.

Same, I actually find it hard to believe none of this was split yet

But now that I mentioned it, this very post is probably gonna bite the dust soon