How to Record a Demo

Thanks for the reply, it's good to hear I can adapt it easily. Thanks Again,

Matt Coles

Definately sounds interesting... I always wanted to some Tribes-style demos in my game!

Nice recoring device Shinobi
It's very usefull and friendly to use

Nice one

I've made something like this using a .dll for Action Bird - great to see something not using a dll, but rather simple c-script, this is extremely helpful!

This is great! danke Shinobi, lots of other posts asking for something like
this. Mine included

"This is the reason why i made this "


I guess wishes do come true

Another thing i forgot to Point out is , you dont have to use while(1);
in your recording and playing functions loop , you dont have to save every tick .
Better for the performance would be 3 or more . Best for me and my slowly Computer is for example wait(3);

function demo_record()

{
if(demo_mode!=0){return;} // if we already recording or playing , end here
demo_mode=1;
counter=0;
start_timer();
filehandle=file_open_write("demo.DEM");
str_cpy(show_info.string,"Recording Demo !!");
while(demo_mode==1)
{
file_var_write(filehandle,player.pan);
file_asc_write(filehandle,13);
file_var_write(filehandle,player.x);
file_asc_write(filehandle,13);
file_var_write(filehandle,player.y);
file_asc_write(filehandle,13);
file_var_write(filehandle,player.z);
file_asc_write(filehandle,13);
file_var_write(filehandle,speed.x);
file_asc_write(filehandle,13);
file_var_write(filehandle,speed.y);
file_asc_write(filehandle,13);
file_var_write(filehandle,speed.z);
file_asc_write(filehandle,13);
counter+=1;
wait(1); // wait(3); for slower Computer play with 3
}
file_close(filehandle);
str_cpy(show_info.string,"Stoped Recording !!");
}




Dont forget to change Both functions , recording and for Playing

if you want the demo to play Faster as recorded so let it (1) in play function and maybe (2) or (3) while recording .

if you want the demo to play in slow motion so let i (3) in play function and maybe (1) or (2) while recording.

It's better to use waitt(1) instead of wait(1) to solve speed problems, isn't it?

Giebt es waitt überhaubt ? habe es nie benutzt und mal hier und da gehört , aber dachte eigendlich es ist noch aus der alten syntex .

Was genau ist denn der Unterschied zwischen den beiden ?

arebeitet waitt mit time zusammen ?

waitt is indeed old syntax. You should use wait(-x) to wait x seconds.

I guess conitec got inspired by your code.. sys_record.

Nice to see , of course we the Community should show Conitec some ideas and incitations too , to help them to give us a better Engine and script.
So iam happy if i could help a bit in that direction.

Sorry, I don't know this is old syntax. I still have A5 not A6, but waitt(1) or <?>wait(-1)<?> working with time instead of frames.

With the functions from conitec we can only record the user inputs, this means we can as example only record the player actions but what's with the npc actions?

Cool program!! I'd think this should most certainly help with the game I'm going to try to make. In my last game (2D), I made it really hard and it was like no one could beat it, but, even though I'll probably try not to make this new game as hard, it would be helpful to have these demo video clip things.

Feel free to ask if you have any Problems to use this script in your Game , if i can help i´ll do .

thx for this great contribution i remember 2 years back i asked around for this code and no one gave a clear answer
now some one did

i also took the liberty of uploading it to my wdl library.

Realspawn

Hi , i contributed this a while back , Conitec took this idea in their newer updates , with sys_record (if i remember right) your able to record a demo.

Your welcome Realspawn and you did a lot for the Community aswell .

this code is simple yet effective, i was thinking of writing something like this if i was making a racing game, thanks man, you saved me time

your welcome

i am having a problem getting to your site, the link is down.

Try again later , server is down because of so many ppl downloading at the same time . BTW in one week i have a new Webhoster hope its better then .