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Demo Recording
I was reminded of this when Ghost was told that his video was craptacular because it didn't have the latest and greatest VO graphics engine in it.
Another feature from a long ago game was the ability to record a demo for later viewing. People would record flag-capping routes and things like that and distribute them as training materials.
Anyways, I believe the way the demos worked was that it would record game variables, not video, and this kept size down. What was good, though, was that you could replay the demos later with different graphical settings or use a video grabber to record particularly awesome moments without having to run it the whole time you're in game. Because the demos were only game variables, they needed to be replayed in game, so I suppose some interface would be necessary for that.
This sort of feature would be pretty cool with VO, I think. I'm thinking of people like ghost who actually fly well and have interesting fights. Those fights will remain awesome, but you won't have the problem of the engine looking dated because you can just replay the demo recording in the new engine and make a new video.
It would also be nice for newbie training purposes to provide such easily distributed recordings.
Anyways, discuss.
Another feature from a long ago game was the ability to record a demo for later viewing. People would record flag-capping routes and things like that and distribute them as training materials.
Anyways, I believe the way the demos worked was that it would record game variables, not video, and this kept size down. What was good, though, was that you could replay the demos later with different graphical settings or use a video grabber to record particularly awesome moments without having to run it the whole time you're in game. Because the demos were only game variables, they needed to be replayed in game, so I suppose some interface would be necessary for that.
This sort of feature would be pretty cool with VO, I think. I'm thinking of people like ghost who actually fly well and have interesting fights. Those fights will remain awesome, but you won't have the problem of the engine looking dated because you can just replay the demo recording in the new engine and make a new video.
It would also be nice for newbie training purposes to provide such easily distributed recordings.
Anyways, discuss.
gun cams ftw
It would also be nice if we could spectate from another player's point of view, live, in-game, from anywhere (or maybe just any station), ...
It would need some kind of permission system, obviously, but that would be easy.
It would need some kind of permission system, obviously, but that would be easy.
I'm pretty sure that VO used to have (and may still have for all I know) this capability in some form or another, but it was never really accessible to the playerbase... I think you could record stuff, but there wasn't any way to see what you had recorded at all or even find the file(s) generated by the recording.
Well I'm all for it, especially if it will help with marketing.
There is a recording mechanism in there, somewhere, but as Miharu says, there's no playback system. It's definitely something we'd like to expand, it would dovetail with our needs for a build-in benchmark, but it's not a top priority at present.