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Abelysk

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

Yes.

BEE

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

No because then I have to remember who I am spectating and find their name again, a terror in a world full of people.

Just let us friend ourselves so our own name appears at the top of the list. Isn't that the easiest option in terms of coding?

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Thanel

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

That wouldn't be a replacement but addition. I think the best idea is to add spectating deactivation button/icon that appears when you spectate someone. That's a task for a later update though.
For now the easiest way to exit spectating will be to use /spec command without arguments.
I don't like the idea of having myself at the top of the list.

Abelysk

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

No because then I have to remember who I am spectating and find their name again, a terror in a world full of people.

Just let us friend ourselves so our own name appears at the top of the list. Isn't that the easiest option in terms of coding?

Maybe the name should be highlighted blue while being spectated?

P788

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

No because then I have to remember who I am spectating and find their name again, a terror in a world full of people.

Just let us friend ourselves so our own name appears at the top of the list. Isn't that the easiest option in terms of coding?

No it's not a terror, you just have to click on anyone's username twice to reset, if the way of resetting some man said gets implemented.

Different55

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

No because then I have to remember who I am spectating and find their name again, a terror in a world full of people.

Just let us friend ourselves so our own name appears at the top of the list. Isn't that the easiest option in terms of coding?

No it's not a terror, you just have to click on anyone's username twice to reset, if the way of resetting some man said gets implemented.

Good luck finding that name again. Unlike your own name, which is always at the bottom, you have to look through the whole list of names to find the guy you're spectating. Although I suppose you could just double click on any old username, but that's more of a workaround.

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TiKen

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

Yes, or at least put your own name on top so you don't have to go though half the player list to find yourself =P

Nou

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

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It's both, the command doesn't replace the clicking.

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Hexagon

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

Since one is able to move around while they are spectating someone else this might not work but what if spectating ended when an arrow key was pressed (or wasd?) That way, you can just try to move around again and just get back to where you were.

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BEE

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

So, from what I understand, the ways to unspectate could possibly be:

- Put your own name at the top of the list for easier access to click yourself
- Use command to unspectate (is there a way to not require the name to be put in, ie: "/unspec" instead of typing in "/spec bee"?)
- Select the person you are spectating again to go back to yourself

Out of all, I still like the top option the best (hoenstly preferable to put myself under the list of friends, but I'm not too picky) but I'll take any of the above (or all, porque no los dos tres?)

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Hexagon

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

- Use command to unspectate (is there a way to not require the name to be put in, ie: "/unspec" instead of typing in "/spec bee"?)

+1 If an un-spectate command is going to be added, I would definitely want /unspec (what you said) rather than /spec bee (unless you can spectate two players at once, which could be interesting.)

Out of all, I still like the top option the best (honestly preferable to put myself under the list of friends, but I'm not too picky)

Well, everyone would have to add themselves as a friend to have this feature or if they were added automatically it would work, however if you have multiple friends online it could be a problem (as they would be at the top too.) Maybe have your name *always* at the top regardless of anything.

I'm not sure if someone already suggested this but what if the player who you are spectating appeared at the top of the level list, and changed to an orange color?

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Fradeshan

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

i would prefer spectating being commands than clicking at all

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Hexagon

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

No because then I have to remember who I am spectating and find their name again, a terror in a world full of people.

Just let us friend ourselves so our own name appears at the top of the list. Isn't that the easiest option in terms of coding?

No it's not a terror, you just have to click on anyone's username twice to reset, if the way of resetting some man said gets implemented.

Good luck finding that name again. Unlike your own name, which is always at the bottom, you have to look through the whole list of names to find the guy you're spectating. Although I suppose you could just double click on any old username, but that's more of a workaround.

If you mean yourself as the player, then this functionality already exists (clicking the name of the player who you are spectating in a list of players), unless I'm misunderstanding something.

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Different55

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

No because then I have to remember who I am spectating and find their name again, a terror in a world full of people.

Just let us friend ourselves so our own name appears at the top of the list. Isn't that the easiest option in terms of coding?

No it's not a terror, you just have to click on anyone's username twice to reset, if the way of resetting some man said gets implemented.

Good luck finding that name again. Unlike your own name, which is always at the bottom, you have to look through the whole list of names to find the guy you're spectating. Although I suppose you could just double click on any old username, but that's more of a workaround.

If you mean yourself as the player, then this functionality already exists (clicking the name of the player who you are spectating in a list of players), unless I'm misunderstanding something.

I think you might be. I was talking about it being hard to find the username of the person you're spectator because it can move around the list and isn't in a fixed place, unlike your own username.

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Abelysk

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

How about if you click on the person's username again it resets to your view?

Possibly doable. Should I make it like this?

No because then I have to remember who I am spectating and find their name again, a terror in a world full of people.

Just let us friend ourselves so our own name appears at the top of the list. Isn't that the easiest option in terms of coding?

Maybe the name should be highlighted blue while being spectated?

abrar11

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

What about a hotkey to exit spectating mode like m or something easily accessible?
Hexagon you probably know about this but when you start writing a name and press tab it automatically writes the name for you

skullz17

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

I would like a unspec hotkey or button more than any of these.

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Hexagon

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Re: Found an interesting shortcut to show usernames

- Use command to unspectate (is there a way to not require the name to be put in, ie: "/unspec" instead of typing in "/spec bee"?)

Yes, as Thanel said you just need to type "/spec".

/unspec might be better in some cases than using /spec to toggle because if you are spectating someone who is not moving, and you unspec using /spec, you don't know if you unspec'd or not (because there is no indicating in terms of camera changes.)

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