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This is the launcher for w3champions. It includes the needed flo hostbot executables.
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Allow the players zoom to be altered in the launcher #88

Open Cepheid-UK opened 3 years ago

Cepheid-UK commented 3 years ago

A few players have mentioned the auto-zoom reset as an observer is not working exactly as they'd like, I think it might be nice if we could have the setting for your zoom be displayed on the launcher.

The launcher could read your text file and see what it's set to, display like:

Player Zoom - 1750 Observer Zoom - 2000

If we can detect when the player is in a game as an observer (presumably this would be flo-only?), we could have the launcher edit the file to change their zoom to whatever they have in the launcher, when the next game starts as a player, the text file could be re-written as their player zoom value.

This would be a workaround to allow observers to change their zoom level by alt-tabbing to the launcher and changing the value, which would update the next 15s tick.

Presumably this would require a change to flo-worker.exe to emit events to the launcher for when players are in games as obs/players?

modmoto commented 3 years ago

hmm, seems like a lot of stuff that has to be considered for a workaround. Isnt it better to do that in the maps somehow?

Cepheid-UK commented 3 years ago

The problem is the maps dont allow observers to interact with the map triggers. That's why a different solution is needed. There may be another way to do this though.

Cepheid-UK commented 3 years ago

At the least, would it be beneficial to allow users to edit their zoom for all w3c maps on the launcher? In theory that's just editing the value of their text file, right?

modmoto commented 3 years ago

Yes that is simple, but I wanted to move those kind of options to the ingame client. I think hotkeys are fine in the launcher, but other options should go ingame, so we have only one place. For example, I wanted to add the skins ingame aswell. We can foward messages to the launcher to make file read/write operations.

I think the idea is good, but I dont know if this is the best way to do it, imo.