Spectate
What is spectate?
Spectate allows you to watch players from their point of view, simply by typing in /spectate (player). You will see exactly what they see, and they'll never know you were watching them.
You can also watch them from different angles. There's Third Person, Third Person Front (looking at their face), and Freeroam (you can walk freely around and watch them from any angle).
There's also "Scroll" mode and "Scan" mode. Scroll mode allows you to right and left click to change between players, and Scan mode will change the player you're spectating every few seconds (you can set how long until it switches to the next person).
There's also an API, which allows developers to take control of the entire plugin.
To see a full list of everything you can do with Spectate, head over to the Commands page.
Spectate has undergone a complete rewrite.
Please make sure your permissions are up to date, and please report any bugs on the tickets page.
Spectate 2.0 is here!
2.0 includes:
- A complete rewrite of the entire plugin from the ground up.
- Lots of bugs fixes!
- Spectate is now compatible with Multiverse Inventories.
- A fresh new API that lets developers control the ENTIRE plugin!
And some new features:
- A new spectate angle, Third Person Front mode! Now you can watch the player you're spectating while looking at their face. What more could you ask for?
- Another new spectate angle, Free Roam mode! Now you can walk around like a ghost while still viewing their inventory. Spooky!
- You can now see the gamemode and XP of the player you're spectating!
- If you were invisible before spectating, you will still be invisible when you stop spectating.
And many more features I forgot to write down!
So what are you waiting for? Download the plugin for the complete Spectating experience today!
I'm having the same problem on my server!
Dont think this is a spectate specific issue even though it's effecting the spectate plugin. When I am specing a player I can not press T to type if they move. It is cancelling the chat window, so it becomes impossible to type /spec off unless they stop moving completely. I did not add any major plugins recently but only updated some other ones. Just wondering if anyone is experiencing this or know of a cause before I go through the tedious task of removing 1 plugin at a time to make sure there is not a conflict
@ironhide227
Like for a hunger games server? :P
Hello Chipmunk. I love your plugin. Just one suggestion. Could you make an option that makes it so that when someone dies they are in spectate until the server restarts? Thanks.
@brinaq
Yes, I can add that. When I first made spectate I had this idea for another plugin that did exactly that. I can just integrate that right into Spectate, or maybe release it as a separate plugin that hooks into Spectate since that might be a whole new project.
Not sure if this is possible, but do you think you could add the ability to control players too besides spectating? Like I do /control {player} and if I push forward, they go forward, backward they go backward, and so on. Also I can fly and punch things as them.
I would like to use this ability to make a movie with my friends in Minecraft, because I know how to do a few moves like sprint jumping and things for stunts in the movies.
I also plan to use this for a few other uses.
Thank you! Wish you the best, and I love this plugin!
@netherfoam
Yes, I'll add that.
We're having issues with MultiInv and Spectate (inventories are being swapped from world to world, when the inventories should be split by multiinv)
Could you possibly add a requirement that spectaters and spectatees must be in the same world? Including if the spectated person teleports to another world while being watched. Something like spectate.differentWorld as a bypass node
@dropposite
When you are spectating a person you are at the same place as the player but he isn't able to see you. That means that if someone is flying you are also being teleported into the air and the server thinks you are also flying ans kicks you after the time you would need to fall from level 255 to 1.
@dropposite
Do you have Multiverse Inventories installed?
After an hour of mining and collecting supplies as a regular player, someone accused someone of cheating, so I used my magic OP powers to 'spectate' this player and see what he was doing.....He was flying, and shortly after 'spectating' him, we were both kicked from the server saying 'flying is not enabled on this server'.....when i logged back in, My inventory was gone and instead i had that players inv..... He had his own inv as well, but mine is simply gone.....I understand that a player who is mining for an hour shouldnt be spectating anyone, but im an admin and a player......dont know if u encountered this issue before. I didnt feel right Gamemoding my inv back, so i just pretended i fell in lava. But im concerned that Specate may lose my inv if I use it again on a player who is flying, assuming thats the root cause
200,000 downloads !! better plugin
@Blaikie
This is thanks to Minecraft, vanished players still get hit with arrows when they should just go right through them and hit the player behind them.
@Panjinatof
Well I won't be able to reproduce it, could you make a ticket and also list some of the other plugins you're using in it?
Im having an issue with this plugin. Ive used it before and I know how it works. But when i spectate my brother he gets kicked out after 20 secs. Sometimes i get kicked out. It doesnt say kicked it just dissconnects me. Hope this bug can get fixed.
Sometimes when you spectate a player, the spectated player cannot be shot with arrows, they just go through him/her?
@supersean62
Yes.
Does this work with 1.4.7?
@iMontouch
Oh, XP! Right! That's the one thing I've forgotten to do this whole time...
dunno if its already been mentioned. Some mods complaining about issues like picking up XP (double, the spectated wont lose any) or having the inventory of the player after quit spectating.
I told them to only spectate with an empty Inventory and Vanish on, but i think thats not the best solution.
Is this a known issue? I hope it get fixed soon! :)
Really cool plugin by the way <3