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Demo recording

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LAN fan:
You know what would be a sweet feature?  Demo recording.  :-D

There would need to be a playback feature too, of course.

Perhaps have it automatic for every character.

It would be a great tool for teaching other players, and just for plain showing off.  So long as it records all keystrokes in the game so that we can see what they do in their inventory, with their tactics, aiming, etc.  This way we can start an online archive of the best of DoomRL, with games featuring extreme stunts, unbelievable circumstances, and other cool stuff.  And victories...

JimmyJ:
Wow, sounds nice

Also, sounds hard to program :(

Kornel Kisielewicz:
Quoting: jimmyjAlso, sounds hard to program :(
Nope :-P

Actually it's already implemented... the only problem is that the recorder records a frame each time doomrl calls refresh -- what makes targeting and explosions look stupid :-P.

Kornel Kisielewicz:
Quoting: LAN fan
Perhaps have it automatic for every character.
This isn't good cause the files will get MASSIVE.

Krishh:
I think the best way would be for it to record every level, and delete itself when you quit the level. Then have a button that saves the current level demo to an external file for posterity, if the player does something demo-worthy. Because, if you have to turn them on manually, you'll often miss really cool moments simply because you didn't expect them. Of cource, even a single level demo could get quite big if abused by the player,  but this still would be more reasonable.

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