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General => Feedback => Topic started by: yetshi on March 29, 2008, 02:38:17 am

Title: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: yetshi on March 29, 2008, 02:38:17 am

a master demo recorded by the server that shows every player, freely specable.

A: great for scrims/Tournaments

B: even better for bot hunting

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Plague on March 29, 2008, 02:59:02 am

Server-side demo's are featured on multiple developer todo lists, so it's just a matter of dev time and priority.

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Bajsefar on March 29, 2008, 03:56:44 pm

<3 WTB.
Make everyone able to make freely speccable demos, PLEAAASE? :(

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Death On Ice on March 30, 2008, 05:50:49 am

Well, since the server already records player and projects positions, it shouldn't be an epic step. I only hope that it won't take up epic amounts of space.

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: techhead on March 30, 2008, 12:37:06 pm

It would be smaller than the size of one demo per player, since every player has the positions of everyone in their vis area included in the demo.

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Amanieu on April 01, 2008, 03:30:21 am

You would have to store snapshots of all the entities every frame (every 50ms), which can take up quite a lot of space. It could also be possible to only save modified entities but then more processing would be required.

Server-side demos are on my TODO list, but I am not working on it atm.

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Paradox on April 02, 2008, 07:07:20 pm

Bungie could do it, so can we.

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Lava Croft on April 03, 2008, 10:32:46 am

Screw those cheapasses at Bungie, better look at MVDSV (http://www.qw-dev.net/projects/show/4) on how to properly do multiview demos.

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Paradox on April 03, 2008, 06:12:51 pm

Someone want to splice their code into a trem server?

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Vector_Matt on April 07, 2008, 03:19:48 pm

You would probably need a modified client too. so that you can move around while viewing the demos.

Title: Re: Feature Request: Masterdemo
Post by: Amanieu on April 07, 2008, 05:04:33 pm

No, that's the whole point of a server-side demo. You are a spectator, can't join teams, and all the other players are like bots