Improved demo-control possible?

[KadaverJack]

I'm not so sure it would be that slow - the main cost in demo playback is the rendering, skip that and you can get at least a thousand frames/s (watch out for clock precision though, step a fixed time slice between each frame).

But unless you use timedemo, the engine will also skip frames with slowmo if the hardware isn't fast enough...

[tChr]

i want server side demo recording

[divVerent]

Me too, and I think I'll write it some time. It won't work completely though, that is, it will have lower quality than a client recorded demo, but it will be good enough for ladder purposes.

[Psychcf]

I was discussing with doku a while back about a web-based nexuiz server frontend that would intergrate with the ladders, blah blah blah. Anyway I was thinking maybe I could just capture all the packets and throw them in a file, but I suppose that won't work... Anyway I'd really like server side demo recording in 2.4

also, can we get a better stat logging format? xml maybe? json?

[divVerent]

It's working in my current code now... that is, ALMOST working

Only stupid thing is that the file names can just get the IP address in their names, not the player name.


And what is the problem with the current log output? No, certainly no XML. If there is no information missing, you should be able to convert from sv_eventlog to anything else.

[Gut_Eater]

One approach that shouldn't be that difficult to implement is to fast forward from the start really fast by not rendering anything, until one reaches the desired point backwards from the current position.

No backwards time travelling required...

So is it doable? And will it be done?