[CLOSED] Don't draw spectating players

[Hellenion]

A spectating player is seen by everyone but the spectated player, it looks silly to have 2 skins on one player and often bystanders will blow your cover. The spectaing player is also often seen falling/shocking from a flying spectated player.

It should be possible to make a spectating player semi-hidden, that player will remain visible in player lists etc., but its skin won't be drawn.

[Intertoothh]

"While you spectate someone, you become invisible to the target and to all players whom you can /Hide from."

http://www.fcraft.net/wiki//Spectate

[Hellenion]

I understand, but drawing your skin while spectating just looks ridiculous, and if you can't use hide, everyone will see you. spectate and hide have completely different permissions.

You also can't do as much harm as with /hide, because in this case you are immobile: With /hide you can cause chaos and disharmony, but when you're spectating you are not really part of the game, you're a spectator. The higher-ups won't lose much when you're invisible in this state, and you are still shown in the player list and the like, so they will know you're around.

[xN8Gx]

It sounds less like you have an issue with /spectate and more an issue of trust with people having /hide. Showing your skin when you're spectating someone just shows people your rank or higher what you are doing; that way you don't get like 3 or 4 people on the same guy. If you want to be invisible to everyone else, use /hide. Although I won't disagree that you look a little derpy when you are spectating someone.

[Sanjar Khan]

When I see someone spectating I know I can move on to the next person because the previous one was being watched.

[Hellenion]

The part about hide was more to show why it was important to be able to see hidden players, but not important to be able to see spectating players.

But you made a good point about preventing several moderators watching the same player, I think I'll withdraw my request.

Thanks for helping me understand.

[fragmer]

fcraft: fragmer * r1605 /branch-0.60x/fCraft/Network/Player.Networking.cs: If multiple players are spectating the same player, they no longer see each other (which used to cause problems). Thanks Hellenion.

Coming in 0.621