Darkplaces Observer mode

[bpcakes]

Is there a way to spectate or observe games on a Darkplaces server?

[Zaric]

Is there a way to spectate or observe games on a Darkplaces server?

I would very much like to know how to accomplish this as well. I'm rather fond of Darkplaces and it's RT World lighting.

I wouldn't like to have to use a separate engine for spectating... which if it doesn't look the way I want to... why spectate at all?

[R00k]

press ~
then type chase_active 1

ok, thats a bit of a quake standard. If you are connecting to a DP hosted server, most likely its running a custom mod, which might be totally unrelated to DP.
So you might have to poke around and read the console when you login to the server as there might be some info presented or some kinda menu.

what server are u trying to obs on i can jump on and reply with more info...

[Spike]

Darkplaces servers themselves do not support spectating, but the mod it is running may support it. Consult your mod's documentation. There isn't anything of a standard way.

I don't think this will work either, but if you're joining a QuakeWorld server, you can try 'setinfo spectator 1' before connecting (I do not believe that DP supports the 'observe' console command commonly added to real QW clients, but if it does, woo).

[Zaric]

but if you're joining a QuakeWorld server, you can try 'setinfo spectator 1' before connecting.

That's what I was looking for, awesome, thanks.