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1. Overview
2. Spectating Games
3. HLTV Basics
4. Broadcasting Games
5. Recording HLTV demos
6. Larger Broadcasts
7. HLTV Configuration



1. Overview
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Half-Life TV offers theability to have an unlimited number of spectators
watching online games. They can follow the game just like they would as
a spectator on the game server. Spectators are invisible to players and
can't interact with the running game in any way. Each spectator can choose
any view position or choose any player to track individually. To have the
most enjoyable spectating experience,spectators can enable the
Auto-Director mode. Then the camera is changed automatically so that only
interesting scenes are shown from a suitable viewpoint. Thus the spectator
can lean back and won't miss any relevant action. All the time, spectators
may communicate between each other using the standard HL chat system.

Most popular Half-Life MODs are supported likeCounter-Strike, Team
Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat and many others. HLTV providers have full
control over their HLTV system, may change number of spectator slots, add
text messages or change the HLTV logo. The broadcast is delayed by a
customizable amount of time, by default 30 seconds. This ensures that the
playing teams can't use HLTV to get any usable informationabout their
opponents. Providing a single HLTV server for up to 100 spectators is an
easy task and doesn't need any changes in default configurations.

Installing a larger HLTV network for thousands of spectators needs some
more planning time and experience about required bandwidth and CPU/RAM
demands (see chapter 6).



2. Spectating Games-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To watch a HLTV game, start Half-Life, open the Multiplayer menu and select
'Find Servers'. To search for currently broadcasted games, choose the
'Spectate' section and hit 'Refresh All'. After the list has been updated,
double click on the server you want to spectate and you'll be connected.

If computer game leaguesannounce important matches to be broadcasted via
HLTV, they often provide IP:Port addresses of their HLTV servers. Instead
of searching them via the server browser, you can also go to the
'Favorites' folder and add the HLTV address to your server list by pressing
the right mouse button. Otherwise, you can also open the console window and
use the 'connect' command tospectate a certain game.

For example:

connect 192.168.130.42:27020

The default HLTV port number is 27020, but may be changed. It should always
be included in the given address, since commonly this port number is
different from the default port number 27015.

You can spectate the game in different modes: Chase Cam, First Person, Free
Look, Map Overviewand Map Chase. The easiest way to change modes is to
press the JUMP key (default SPACE). Alternatively you can use the spectator
menu, which can be enabled by pressing the DUCK key (default CTRL). Here
you can customize your personal view style and enable the Auto-Director
Mode. Press USE (default E) to cycle through the different
Picture-In-Picture modes.

Thefollowing HL console commands can be used to customize spectator
settings:

spec_autodirector - turns Auto Director mode on or off
spec_drawcone - shows your view cone in map overview mode
spec_drawnames - shows player names under their icons
spec_drawstatus - shows game information (time, map etc)
spec_pip - turns Picture-In-Picture mode on...