Automatic Demos

[Odin]

Sometimes when I play a good game, I realize I forgot to record it. I'd like to have it automatically start recording the game at the game start, and name it "demo####.dm_69". It would start from demo0000.dm_69 and continue all the way to 9999 before starting over again at 0000. This way, if I forget to record a demo, it's still there, and I can rename it to whatever I want. At the end of a game, it should display "Demo automatically saved as 'demo####.dm_69'."
I got the idea from Starcraft and Warcraft III's reply feature. By default, the replay of the game is automatically recorded. If you don't "save the replay", it is saved anyway, as "lastreplay.rep". If I wanted to save the replay, but forgot, it is still there, and I can simply rename the file to what I want it to be. Of course just naming it "lastdemo.dm_69" would not be a good idea, because it would be immediately overwritten when the next map is loaded. Hence the #'s.

[Baxter]

maybe an option to always record the demo and have the demo's name like this:
{server}{date}{server demo number}.dm_99
server demo number means the demo number such as the ###'s on your post but only for that server.

[TinMan]

I use this:

Code Select Expand

cl_autoRecordDemo "1"
the format is [YEAR][MONTH][DATE][TIME]-[SERVER-IP]-[MAP].dm_69

[janev]

I use this:

Code Select Expand

cl_autoRecordDemo "1"
the format is [YEAR][MONTH][DATE][TIME]-[SERVER-IP]-[MAP].dm_69

Yeah that

[benmachine]

It's probably a good idea to bind /stoprecord to a key and press it at the beginning of every map. With cl_autorecorddemo 1, you'll immediately start recording again, but to a new file, which will make things a LOT easier for you if you play for a long time.

[Shadowgandor]

I use this:

Code Select Expand

cl_autoRecordDemo "1"
the format is [YEAR][MONTH][DATE][TIME]-[SERVER-IP]-[MAP].dm_69

Do you have to write that in teh console?

[TinMan]

Do you have to write that in teh console?

You can, or you can add

Code Select Expand

seta cl_autoRecordDemo "1" to your .cfg file.

[Rekov]

what type of file is that. What program?