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#utv Feeder Help(Written by Avlan) So You Want To Be A UTV-Feeder? So you saw the latest UT-EC-final on UTV and you thought: I wanna be that cameraman! I wanna be the one deciding who gets to see what! I want all those women yearning for my attention too! Btw for the n00bs: ‘Feeder’ means cameraman since you ‘feed’ data to the viewers. N00b. Well you better make sure you got the following stuff up and running on your PC:
The UTV-Mod explained When you start your UTV-mod, you start in the “watch”-tab. We don’t need that today, since you have chosen to be the cameraman. Switch to the tab ‘broadcast’. Now you see 3 paragraphs. Connection Information Here you enter the IP or name of the UTV-server and the UTV-feeder-password. There are 3 passwords possible on a UTV-server: A viewer-password (the password users need to enter to watch UTV, most of the time this one is not used); a feeder-password (this is the password you enter here; it gives you the right to configure UTV) and the admin-pw (normally only the admin of the UTV-server has this; with this pw you can kick abusive viewers from UTV and change server-settings such as max. number of viewers). Don’t confuse these, you need the FEEDER-PASSWORD (which you don’t want to spam through IRC as viewer-pw :P) Broadcast Settings Here’s the l33t stuff. ‘Server Headline’ means the ‘title’ of the match the viewers will see in the centre of their screen. Usually make it smt like “oG.vs.Inz 2-4”. ‘Server delay {seconds)’ sets the delay with which the viewers will see the match. Set this to (at least) 15 seconds!! If an FC is hiding somewhere and a few clanmates of the opposite team are on UTV, you will be sure they find him. ‘Onscreen Scoreboard’ toggles the scoreboard-view (left in your spec-view) on or off. Afaik this does not influence your viewers. I’d set it to ‘show’. ‘Onscreen Itemtimer’ toggles the showing of PU-timers on the right of your screen. I’d set it to ‘show’. ‘Onscreen UTV chat’ toggles on/off the bull all your viewers are saying through ‘say’ and ‘teamsay’. Good to know: If you use ‘teamsay’, the UTV-viewers will be able to see your comment (be it 15 secs later) but the players won’t notice. ‘Show Player Number’ toggles on or off if the players will get a playernumber assigned to them. This number will correspond with your numpad-numbers, which makes it very easy to switch to a certain player. Use this! This gives you l33t new possibilties. F.i., imagine you're UTV-ing a match that has a known l33t timer. Then, in stead of switching your camera to SB (more about this later), you can switch to him just before the belt is up, to see if he’s around. Makes nice UTV. Also, when a player f.i. goes unstoppable, you can switch to him in no time to see if he reaches Godlike. Connection Status Rather boring. If you have set everything, click on connect and you will connect to the UTV-server. Before you do this, you need to be logged in as spectator on the war-server! After you pressed the button, the view will automatically switch back to spectator-view on the war-server, and you are online and ready to rumble. The feeding General Information Now you’re all set. The players are ready, there are 100 viewers on UTV, and the match starts! You switch to a player by clicking your left mouse button, just like normal spectating. But wait, who took the shield? Oh shit, the flag gets taken by, ehh, let me see… omg those numbers are small, ok player number 4, switch!!.. o nm, he’s already dead. FS is there no easy way to switch to the FC!?? Good news: There is. If you type ‘findflag’ into your console, the view will switch automatically to the player holding the flag. If there’s two flag-carriers, just type ‘findflag’ again and it switches between both flag-carriers. Now, the smarter ppl are prolly already thinking: “Can’t I make a ‘findflag’-bind then?” Sure, I recommend you to make one, this of course makes it all a lot easier. My key is ‘f’-key.. go figure. Now you have the possibility to switch to the FC in a split second (I recommend you to keep a finger resting on your ‘f’-key), and basically, this is enough to UTV!! You’re on a roll! Where the FC’s are is where the action is, so focussing on them is a good idea (UTV-ing defenders makes boring UTV, most of the time). However, this is a bit n00bish UTV :P. So here are a few tips to make UTV-ing more skillfull :P Use numpad As stated earlier, the numbers there correspond with the playernumbers on the scoreboard, giving you the opportunity to switch to every player in a matter of moments (only player number 10 is a problem, it does not correspond with 0 (zero) on numpad :s). This means, that when a flag is taken, and you think showing the FC is not that important (f.i. when he’s still in NME-base on a big map or when his team is already 7-2 ahead), you might wanna switch to that l33t defender who already got 10 flags back and show how he goes about retrieving the flag. In EC-matches it’s always nice to show a few seconds of Bunneh, Azyd, Gwai, Devereux, Od or some other l33t defender doing their stuff. What’s even more cool to do (but it takes a bit of effort) is to try to find out asap who the attackers on both teams are so you can switch between the both of them when they are about to take the flag, showing their teamplay. And, I found that a lot of times it gives much nicer UTV when you are actually following the COVERER and not the FC. FC's tend to get killed and when this happens and this player respawns, you are no longer showing the action but a player collecting weapons. Fixed camera positions In UTV-feeding mod, you can make a number of fixed camera positions, and I urge you to make at least 2: An overview of the RED BASE and an overview of the BLUE BASE. The most spectacular moments are last-minute returns and you are bound to miss it if your UTV-ing one player (mostly the FC). He gets killed and respawns and before you were able to press 'findflag' again you hear a multikill and the flag is returned and you missed all. When you have a bind for the red base, focussing on the flag, you can switch to this view when the FC is about 5-10 meters away and you make sure you show all the l33t last second action, whoever gets killed. Other fixed positions can be for PU's, but usually I only bind SB and I forget it most of the time, since its not too interesting most of the time. However, on a map like Glacier or Terra, an overview of the mid/shieldbelt is nice to switch to when an FC reaches mid and he has l33t cover while 3 men jump on him (On the right side of your screen you can see the Pu-timers, so you can switch to the SB when its up). How do you make these binds? In the original UTV.zip there's a HTML-helpfile which has the console commands to do this. This is the way to go: Use your 'own camera'-freeflight view to fly through the level and position the camera as you want it. Then copy-paste the UTV-set-command from the HTML or from this tutorial. The command is: set utv.utvmenuitem action set 0 where the 0 (zero) is the number of the view, just a counter, so to speak. In your ut.ini, you need to bind keys to these views. Bind this statement to the keys you want to use: set utv.utvmenuitem action go 0 I have my redbase-view bound to the key ‘1’, and my bluebase-view to ‘2’, so I can keep a thumb on ‘f’ and two fingers on ‘1’ and ‘2’. ‘0’ (zero) I usually use for the Shieldbelt or mid-view. The redbase-overview, bluebase-overview and the ‘findflag’-bind are the keys you should use 75% of the time. Camera Free Flight This is when you use your ‘own’ cameraview to follow the action. You see it used in a few l33t UT-movies with nice flagruns. I have only one advice for this option: DON’T USE IT. You see some UTV-feeders trying to be a 'real' cameraman and do all sorts of l33t fly-overs and all, but in doing so you kind of miss the point, which is THE GAME. Sure, in those movies it looks cool, but the difference is that there, the cameraman has checked out the action and could think about good camera-positions. You have no time to do so and will probably miss a few good moments because you were busy being a l33t cameraman. BEFORE the game starts you have every time to make the UTV-viewers throw up because of your drunken camera moves :P So in short steps, how do I UTV? (In this order:)
Some bugs, irritating stuff & things you should know & do After a map changes when you are UTV-ing, the UTV mod FORCES YOU to restart your UT. This can be a rather ghey thing when you have a n00b admin who sets the server 5 times before everything is right. I always wait untill I’m fairly sure the server is set correctly before I activate UTV. If you have an older UTV-version then the last, you can have all sorts of crazy shit happening. Watch your viewers-comments to see if everything looks fine. Sometimes, if you have logged out and logged in, some viewers can experience forever buffering or uberdelay, then tell them to exit and log in again, this cures most of these things.<> Keep your viewers informed about the status of UTV. You will see your viewernumbers drop if you restart every minute, or if you have spammed ‘UTV is ONLINE!!!’ 5 times already on IRC when nothing’s online at all. Just drop a line every few minutes in the rep-channel so the viewers know UTV is coming up but the players are still servertesting or the admin is to the bathroom. My fixed camera-positions from my UT.ini (for the lazy ppl) If you're really that lazy, you can get Avlan's fixed camera-positions here. That’s about it. GL & HF Grtz. Avlan |
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