Record and Playback?

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:31 pm

I read the heading on bzflag.org and it said record and playback as a new feature in 2.0??? What is this?

Post by **trepan** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:37 pm

you can record games, and play them back.
the recordings can be saved from a circular
buffer, or straight into a file. check the bzfs
man page.

SilverFox · Post by **SilverFox** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:46 pm

I can't find "record" anywhere in the bzfs man page. (of the bzflag man page for that matter)

The Gecko · Post by **The Gecko** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:35 am

Cool!!! I was hoping that I could record games. I've tried programs that record what goes on, on the screen, but that makes the game way too laggy, and it usually doesn't do a good job.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:49 pm

why does the server record not the client?

Post by **trepan** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:15 pm

Silver: you are not looking at the right man pages.

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man ./bzfs.6 | grep -i record | wc -l

gives me 15, how is it possible that you didn't find 1?
(note: that's a *nix command to count the number of
times that a word appears in a file, case insensitive)

Scorch: it was originally written to help admin'ing.
The rest I'll leave for you to figure out.

SilverFox · Post by **SilverFox** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:12 pm

heh, I know wordcount. Anyhow... I must have the 1.10.x man page. I did a "find / -name bzfs.6" and only found the one that didn't have "record" in it.

I used the .deb to install 2.0, I wonder if they didn't package it with a man file....

Post by **trepan** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:14 pm

The current CVS man pages can be found at:
http://my.bzflag.org/bzfman.cgi

The man2html tools mangles them a bit.

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:41 pm

How do I utilize this feature?!?!

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:11 pm

Add the command which tells the server where to look for and save recordings eg.

-recdir "C:\Documents and Settings\Brad2901\My Documents\My BZFlag Files\recordings"

If you want to replay the recordings you need to restart the server with the following command:

-replay

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:17 pm

Whenever I restart the server with -replay, it craps out whenever someone joins. Like one of those 'Please send an error report to microsoft' crap out screens.

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:20 pm

Worked fine with me yesterday when I had a 2.0 server running on windows..

Just load the correct clip (/replay load mybzflagclip) and then type /replay play

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:48 pm

Okay..but I cant do it cause my server doesnt seem to work

Memnarch · Post by **Memnarch** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:14 am

So only server owners can record and replay?...

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:39 am

All admins can record and replay but the server owner has to restart the server in replay mode.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:23 pm

and what does "replay mode" do?

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:31 pm

It allows you to type in /replay load myBZFLAGclip and then /replay play. In normal mode you can't do those commands.

romfis-austria · Post by **romfis-austria** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:17 am

HI

on windows the command -replay crashet the server

mfg.
romfis

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:26 am

This happened to me when I tryed to play a clip from a 1.11 server.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:57 am

Same with me.

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Record and Playback?

Record and Playback?

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