How to add spectator option to existing mod Created 4 years ago2020-03-19 15:41:50 UTC by Niborius2

Hi,

So I can imagine the title is a bit vague but I'll try to explain. Basically I have a multiplayer mod installed for Half-Life 1, but it appears there is no option to be a spectator in that mod. Console commands like Allow_spectators and Spectate are non existent. I learned that the game gets its console commands from the DLL file.

The mod in question is Jumbot. Would it be do-able to mod it in myself? Or is that near impossible when I'm not the creator of the mod.

Also tried to run HLTV and make a demo from here, but when I want to Play the demo file using Viewdemo or Playdemo the client crashes with no error message at all.

Thanks in advance!

I think it is possible - Jumbot is I assume a server only mod (if not this probably won't work).
If you use it with an up to date client.dll, you should be able to write a plugin that loads and passes through to the Jumbot .dll, but in your plugin capture the spectator commands and copy their logic from hl.dll

Hopefully that makes sense.

Get the jumbot source and put the spectator mode in there using a tutorial. I am sure there's one because I have used it for my mod.

Jumbot is closed source (and I think I emailed the author many years ago - he no longer has the source).

Fun fact - the bots in Wanted! are based off Jumbot.

https://www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-68398/Jumbot-v2-0
Did not check the files, but the site says:

Code is cleaner and marked well for easy porting to mods/other code bases.

Maybe the SDK is there...

No, just the .dll - I guess those notes are about moving from SDK 1.0 to SDK 2.x