well this is somewhat ok in 720p but in any setting below that it becomes unwatchable - which is quite the concern if this was used in streaming. especially the radar suffers from that.
the player UIs would need to be altered big time to fit into this concept: get rid of "useless" or 3x information like ammo, timer, UPS, score and itemtimers. every PoV should have a playername in HUGE font at the top, midsize health at the bottom - and thats it.

for optimizing the radar i would make it show even less detail of the map and get rid of the grey colorizing - just outlines with white filling for contrast. even better would be a light colored map for better perception of platforms, levels and general PoV<>map linking.
also theres too much "soso value" information in it (items - even shards, skulls, altering dotsizes for players) that draw the attention away from the important thing "who is where" - especially the playernames arent even readable <720p and even above its no good.

nice idea but this would need a lot of customization before it adds to the viewer experience. try to attempt it with a total minimalistic mindset - the viewer already has to suffer from 4x the information of a fast pace shooter and has barely time to switch concentration between map and PoV. theres just no time for moments of "who is in what window, which icon on the map belongs to what PoV".

yup, thanks for the feedback.
most of what you've said is listed in op.

also, there's nothing i can do about people who want to watch this <720p. i've designed it for 1080p, and even then, youtube REALLY stuffs up any video i upload. the file i uploaded to youtube is crystal clear.

will simplify hud, add player names, and get a better streaming cfg. i can't do anything about the "radar", that's just the U2DDV program by memento_mori.

GTV....+ built in voip+irc for quakelive.. streaming at ingame quality, tiny bandwidth..

i know that gtv is the far better solution from a technical point of view. so you could somewhat say streaming is a giant leap backwards.
theres a reason tho why its dead - it requires the user to actuall do / download / install stuff. noone randomly browses by and thinks "hey lets install and configure all that shit to have a look at this game". GTV was the best solution for quakelovers but total bs* for advertising the game and delivering easy access content for everybody.

QW can do this, check it out

seems unlikely i'll try a game simply because of a demo playback feature it may have haha. cpma had MVDs too.

i love QL, just doing my best to try and get others to love it too.

Cpma couldnt do the display your looking for (apart from multiview) whilst ezquake can.

fair enough. wish ql had something like that.

unfortunately, game developers focus on needs of the masses, rather than the competitive few, when they implement features. makes sense from a superficial outside view, i guess.

but i think proper implementation of competitive features would encourage pub players to play in comps, and also, it's the competitive part of e-sports that have led to the gaming boom. games like NS2 and tribes: ascend failed, hard, coz of, amongst other things, lack of proper competitive features (even though both were claimed to be aimed at competitive play). heck, neither had demo support, or even spectator view.

anyway, i digree :)

you can embed:

[ youtube = http://www.youtube.com/v/YadiQpt127I]

and removing the spaces

thanks

better this http://www.esreality.com/post/2390219/improve...y-project/

smh

It's ok for the streamer, but the viewer doesn't know what to look at first.

just copy CS:GO HUD and gg

maybe in the best case scenario 2 streamers spec one player on each team, cause personally i don't need to see every single player all the time in the entire match

wait wait
why is everyone assuming this is something to do with streaming?

it's something to be made POST-game, then analysed and uploaded to youtube to be watched at leisure, with plenty of rewinding and examining etc.

imo 2d overlay shouldn't be in a fixed window, instead of dropped over the screen, like in cs.

btw don't approve of multipov, it's too hard to follow 3-4 players at once.

This is very distracting tbh, I would rather just watch one pov in full screen then have three or four at the same time. I think just showing one pov with a radar would be nicer. Since this is post match anyway, making it into a "movie" where you switch povs between players manually and keeping the radar would make more sense to me. That way you can highlight players and still show what the rest of the team and enemies are doing.

It's really hard to follow, compare: