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Hey guys,

I posted this in another thread earlier but I doubt many people saw it, so if your struggling with SourceTV this should be supah useful.

Ok, heres a config you can slap in your servers etf2l config or server.cfg or whatever.


//Team Fortress 2 Source TV Config
//This will strangely enough, enable SourceTV
tv_enable "1"

//This is simply the port SourceTV uses, make sure you don't set it to the same one
//as your actual game server or SourceTV will use a different port and you won't have
//have a clue what it is.
tv_port "27050"

//This simply sets how many seconds delayed SourceTV is behind the actual game.
tv_delay "45"

//You win a cookie if you can guess what this does
tv_password ""

//You get another cookie if you guess what this does too!
tv_maxclients "100"

//This is simply the password a relay server will need to use.
tv_relaypassword "etf2lrelay"

//This is the name that SourceTV will show as in spectate to players on the actual server
tv_title "SourceTV"

//This is the name that SourceTV will have in the server browser and to anyone on it
tv_name "SourceTV"

//This will simply hold the map change till the broadcast has finnished. I.E. If you
//do "rcon changelevel cp_badlands", and tv_delay is 60, it will wait 60 seconds for
//the map to change to allow all spectators to see everything up to that rcon command.
//This will stop spectators from missing say the last 30 seconds due to a team map
//changing quickly.
tv_delaymapchange "1"

//This will allow people to noclip spectate the match instead of just a single person.
tv_allow_camera_man "1"

//This will stop SourceTV from auto-recording demos. Its advisable to leave this off so you don't end up with massively laggy servers and 500MB demo files that are 36 hours long.
tv_autorecord "0"

//These some other commands which you shouldn't need to change but feel free to if
//you know what they do.
tv_maxrate "6000"
tv_snapshotrate "16"
tv_relayvoice "1"
tv_debug "0"
tv_transmitall "1"
tv_dispatchmode "1"
tv_overridemaster "0"
tv_chattimelimit "0"


As well as those cvars, theres a couple of useful commands:

tv_record
This will record a SourceTV demo, works exactly the same way as the normal client record command. tv_stoprecord will stop the recording.

tv_status
Much like the main in-game status command, it will print some small info about the STV status such as if a demo is being recorded, how many slots are used, the IP/Port, etc,,,

tv_msg
This will just send a message in the text chat which will only be seen by people in SourceTV, i.e.
tv_msg “Hey guys, Badlands is the second map so we will be changing in a second”

tv_clients
Similar to the tv_status command, it will print all the same information about people connected as the status command would on an actual gameserver.

find tv_
This will print all of the commands starting with tv_ and a small explanation about each one. Do it in TF2 (dosen’t need to be via rcon) at any time if you need a help with it. find will actually work for any cvar in the entire game and any source game for that matter.

VERY IMPORTANT: You MUST change map (even if its to the same map) to enable SourceTV, but you will only need to do this once. You will need to do this after any server restart.

Hope thats useful to someone and that we actually get some people using STV properly now. :P

NOTE: It is possible to disable the use of sourceTV on a server, off the top of my head the only people who do this is ukgame, but there is likely others.

you also need to change map to enable sv_pure… but thats maybe just offtopic

Some useful stuff there, thanks. One question though, what’s the load on a server like when lots of people are connected to Source TV? Is one tv spec equivalent to 1 or 2 (or whatever) normal players or specs, or does it not work like that?

This isn’t good for the new ETF2L config, delay needs to be 90, autorecord on..

and a question, is there an event/command – matchend or tournamentend , i mean when you finish the Tournament to the timelimmit or win limmit..
if you know so il make a CFG for it to auto stop the auto record everytime the tournament ends (and when it starts the record will start too)

i dont use sourcemod.. i prefer using rcon :P
and can you give me a link to it?

This isn’t good for the new ETF2L config, delay needs to be 90, autorecord on..

Imo, 90 delay is pointless, I don’t think someone in STV calling something that happened 45 seconds ago is anymore useful than something that happened 90 seconds ago. It also makes it more likely the spectators won’t see the match end due to map change.

Also, Autorecord is MASSIVE no no. You end up with massive demos that are like 700MB and 3 days long. :P

Thank you for this thread James May <3

OMG

it is…

JAMES MAY!