Journals aren't Demos? Where to start?
by Scott Sheppard · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 07/02/2010 (12:44 am) · 0 replies
I'm trying to get all server-side movements and actions recorded for an automatic game recording archive feature. The game is sports oriented, so being able to go in and re-watch some plays would be nice. I don't really need a robust playback feature with pausing, rewinding, or fast-forwarding. Something like this http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Demo_Recording_Tools I guess.
After spending a few hours searching through old posts, I finally got pointed in what I thought was the right direction.
http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/Journaling
Journaling works best for debugging, so it seems to lack some pretty key features. Demoing seems possible, but there's no documentation.
So where do I actually start? Has ANYONE implemented this into a game? It's obviously not very common. This quote from Stephen Zepp is the closest I've seen:
"Do know that it is possible however--a company called Valador wrote an extension to Torque that reads in telemetry streams from a file and allows for full recording style control of the simulation. Their team was lead by Eric Priesz, who I like to call "the best non-GG employee Torque engineer in the world" (he denies it!), but it's doable."
After spending a few hours searching through old posts, I finally got pointed in what I thought was the right direction.
http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/Journaling
Journaling works best for debugging, so it seems to lack some pretty key features. Demoing seems possible, but there's no documentation.
So where do I actually start? Has ANYONE implemented this into a game? It's obviously not very common. This quote from Stephen Zepp is the closest I've seen:
"Do know that it is possible however--a company called Valador wrote an extension to Torque that reads in telemetry streams from a file and allows for full recording style control of the simulation. Their team was lead by Eric Priesz, who I like to call "the best non-GG employee Torque engineer in the world" (he denies it!), but it's doable."
