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quanticc / lawena-recording-tool

Simple movie recording tool for Source Engine games
http://lawena.github.io/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Allow repeat recording of player perspectives #111

Closed joekiller closed 5 years ago

joekiller commented 6 years ago

One thing I'd like to attempt to figure out is how to make multiple renderings of the same video over and over from each player's perspective.

It appears that demo tick segments all run simultaneously even if they are ordered in the VDM file which was a little contrary to what I expected.

I'm imagining a series of aliases that would change to allow multiple actions to occur on the same tick but only be activated after the expected action happened.

IE at tick 3 there are three records. Each runs a different alias command:

Initially

segment 3 has: alias1= record segment; alias alias1 noop; segment 3 has: alias2 = noop segment 3 has: alias3 = noop segment 4 has: exec playerswitch segment N has: alias alias2 = record segment; alias alias2 noop;

next iteration all three fire but only 2 is active so

alias1=noop alias2 = record segment; alias alias2 noop; alias3 = noop

Does this make sense?

quanticc commented 6 years ago

Yes, if you are able to "rewind" or start the demo over, it would work.

I think it would resemble how the recording process rotates between different files each time you press P.