SourceTV set camera man

[Glebux]

Make it possible to properly set the current camera man with sourcetv.SetCameraMan, And also call a hook "HolyLib:ShouldBecomeCameraMan" when a spectator presses the USE key, as the valve dev wiki stated.

[RaphaelIT7]

per player or globally? Also I think setting the spectator should already be possible like this:

-- Note: This is just and Idea and untested
hook.Add("HolyLib:OnSourceTVCommand", "Example", function(client, name, args, argString)
    if name == "Spectate" then
        local event = gameevent.Create("hltv_changed_target")
        event:SetInt("mode", OBS_MODE_CHASE)
        event:SetInt("obs_target", player.GetBySteamID(args[1]))
        event:SetInt("old_target", 0) -- Is this even required? idk
        client:FireEvent(event)
        return true
    end
end)

But I will definetly add a proper function so that the engine won't override anything possibly.

[Glebux]

The function should set the camera man globally, yes. But if the user wants more control then something like the pseudo code you provided would certainly do.

[Glebux]

I've done some testing, and it turns out that "hltv_changed_target" fails to initiate, and "hltv_cameraman" is what exactly needed. Also after a few seconds the autodirector regains control of the camera, so a think function for hltv clients would be also required.

[RaphaelIT7]

I added the HolyLib:OnSourceTVStartNewShot to allow one to cancel it changing the shot. Simply return true in the hook to cancel it.

[RaphaelIT7]

So a while ago I added HLTVClient:SetCameraMan and sourcetv.SetCameraMan which should work but I didn't test it yet.