Sorry about the delay in fixing some recent issues, school and other projects had me busy.

New release: r19

• Added HitEvents module, which enables hitsounds and damage numbers in STV.
  - Server must be running [SrcTV+](https://github.com/dalegaard/srctvplus) by dalegaard for this feature to work
  - Controlled with ce_hitevents_enabled
  - ce_hitevents_dmgnumbers_los controls whether you can see damage numbers through walls
  - Behavior of damage numbers/hitsounds is controlled by normal tf_dingaling_ and hud_combattext_ cvars
  
• Small performance improvements.
  
• Fixed ce_localplayer_track_spec_target.
  
• Fixed a case where white outlines would show up.
  
• Fixed a typo in ce_outlines_spy_visib(i)lity

https://github.com/PazerOP/CastingEssentials/releases/latest

Tbh I wish voice activity was disabled again, ran into someone last night who had a bad mic (loud humming) + noisy background, he wouldn't fix it when I asked him like 5 times. Match got cancelled, but if it hadn't I probably would have just muted him. Enforcing push to talk fixes this.

Heads up: due to the large number of changes in this release as well as limited time on my end, this is a beta release.

New release: r18

Thanks a bunch to dalegaard for contributing fixes and new features:

• Fixed camera autoswitch being triggered by dead ringer feigns.
  
• Added ce_clienttools_windowtitle, which allows you to override the title of the game window. Useful when running multiple instances of TF2 and matching their window title in OBS.
  
• Added ce_cameratools_spec_entindex to spectate players by their entindex.

Many other changes as well:

• Added ce_cameratools_spec_index <team> <hud index> to spectate a player by their position on the hud.
  
• Added camera group support to autocameras. you can now use ce_autocamera_cycle <prev/next> [group] to cycle between a certain subset of cameras.
  
• Added ce_autocamera_spec_player <free/fixed/follow> [group] which allows "following" a player using autocameras, optionally tracking them with the camera angles.
  
• Added ce_teamscores_delta_blu/red, which offset the team scores for the ingame team scores panel. Useful for golden caps, etc.
  
• Added ce_outlines_spy_visibility, which outlines cloaked spies even when they are not behind walls.
  
• Added the ability to specify FOVs in autocameras.
  
• Added ce_fovoverride_test and ce_fovoverride_test_enabled to help with placing autocameras with custom FOVs.
  
• Added ce_teamscores_text<number> cvars, where number is an integer between 1 and 4. Maps directly to %customtext<number>% dialog variables on the teamscores panel.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when players leave the server.
  
• Fixed camera autoswitch running when in freecam (roaming) mode.
  
• Replaced ce_fovoverride_enabled, ce_fovoverride_fov, and ce_fovoverride_zoomed with ce_fovoverride_firstperson, ce_fovoverride_thirdperson, ce_fovoverride_roaming, and ce_fovoverride_fixed.

https://github.com/PazerOP/CastingEssentials/releases/latest

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he's a tf2 pro, be careful around him please

New release: r17

• Added inverse player health progress bars.
  
• Player health infills now have support for flickering and/or fading out.
  
• Added ce_infills_additive which enables additive rendering for infills (adds to the underlying color, rather than replacing it)
  
• Modified syntax of ce_cameratools_spec_pos: ce_cameratools_spec_pos x [y] [z] [pitch] [yaw] [roll] [mode]
  - Any of the parameters can be a single question mark (?) which is interpreted as "do not change".
  - Any omitted parameters are interpreted as "do not change".
  - mode can be either free, fixed or ?.
  - Breaking change: previously, ce_cameratools_spec_pos would always use a fixed camera. Now it keeps your current spec_mode. This means that if you want the previous behavior of always going into spec_mode 3, you need to specify fixed as the mode.
  
• Added ce_cameratools_spec_pos_delta, which just adds the specified values to your position/angles. Uses the same updated syntax as ce_cameratools_spec_pos.
  
• Added ce_autocamera_goto_mode, which controls the spec_mode to use for ce_autocamera_goto and ce_autocamera_cycle.
  
• Fixed sticky jumper stickies not having outlines.
  
• Fixed dispenser screens causing outlines to disappear all over the place. Whoops.

Didn't post r16 here because it was so minor, but here's what changed in r16:

• Fixed silhouettes being on by default.
  
• Support for actual progress bars for player health rather than HealthIcon hacks.

https://github.com/PazerOP/CastingEssentials/releases/latest

*DEAD* brayden102107 : big incoming

New release: r15

• Fixed a crash in FOV overrides related to spectating a player who timed out.
  
• You can now disable thirdperson camera lock degrees per second limits by setting any of the ce_tplock_dps_ cvars to -1.
  
• Widespread performance improvements.
  
• Added support for ingame team scores. No more alt+tabbing to change scores manually in OBS.
  
• Added support for embedding medigun panels inside specgui player panels. Lots of changes to mediguninfo-related cvars, see the wiki page for more info.
  
• Added support for L4D-style blurred outlines.
  
• Added support for CS:GO-style player infills based on player health.

https://github.com/PazerOP/CastingEssentials/releases/latest

Known Issues:

• ce_graphics_glow_silhouettes is on by default. You must disable this to enable l4d-style outlines.

That's because you're not launching your game with -insecure. This plugin is not signed by valve (like p-rec is), and rightly so, otherwise it could be used on VAC secured servers. It's basically a cheat, using this for purposes other than casting should never be a thing.

New release: r14

• Fixed the new and improved player outlines not including players' cosmetics and weapons. No more clown shoes on soldiers (gunboats would cause their feet to be permanently outlined).
  
• Fixed ubers breaking outlines.
  
• Fixed players being invisible until they die if you were spectating them in firstperson when the round started (floating cosmetics). New cvar ce_graphics_fix_invisible_players.
  
• Fixed a crash in medigun panels.
  
• Fixed per-map configs always running, regardless of the value of ce_mapconfigs_enabled.
  
• Added ce_graphics_glow_silhouettes, which just draws outlines as solid colors. A debugging experiment I left in because I thought it looked nice.
  
• Added ce_smoothing_los_min, which controls the minimum percentage of LOS check points that must pass for a smooth to be started.

https://github.com/PazerOP/CastingEssentials/releases/latest

New release: r13

• Happy holidays.
  
• Added ce_graphics_improved_glows, which allows you to switch between the new and improved outlines provided by CastingEssentials, and the ones built into TF2. I am aware that the game is slightly darker when using the CE outlines. This is a bug.
  
• Added ce_graphics_glow_intensity, a global scalar for the "brightness" of the new and improved outlines (ce_graphics_improved_glows 1 required).
  
• Fixed cases where several systems (medigun panels, player aliases, and killstreaks) would sometimes not work for specific players in a given server.
  
• Updated a signature to match a change in the Smissmas 2017 update.

You should remove old versions of CastingEssentials from /tf/addons and extract new versions to /tf/custom/CastingEssentials

https://github.com/PazerOP/CastingEssentials/releases/tag/r13

Posting this here as well as on the steam discussions: https://masonry.desandro.com/

You can use this to lay out the class tiles on different rows and still have them look nice, so they don't get squished horizontally like this:

https://puu.sh/ygpbc/f885089c6e.png

https://youtu.be/8ayH60ET4U0

sorry we're busy with tf2

800 MB

people who intentionally start hl vs 6s "debates" whenever possible