Author Topic: How to Demo Record?  (Read 13210 times)

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Re: How to Demo Record?
« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2012, 01:29:45 AM »
Try "this" to do what? I can't copy the text in the dos window because of the failure pop-up, the dos window can't be accessed, it dismisses as soon as you acknowledge the pop-up.

Let me know, and use small words please. :-)

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You asked about the Mac installer - does that mean you're playing on a Mac? I wrote the program to work on Windows - I don't know the first thing about OSX.

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Re: How to Demo Record?
« Reply #21 on: November 30, 2012, 01:37:57 AM »
I will warn you guys now - the way newer cutscenes are coded is different than how the old ones were done. To prevent people from cutscene-bombing, it now renders the scene in a new 'instance' as it were, and if our characters appear, it's done as doppelgangers.

What this means is, sometimes when you play back the newer ones, there's nothing there - it's because you are now further away than the camera will register. To offset that, what I often do (and JUST for the cutscenes) is edit my POS to about ten feet under the focus of the cutscene (Mother Mayhem, Marauder, whatever) and then replay it. Voila, now I'm in range.

Stuff like the shifting focus that the REALLY new cutscenes have does not render, unfortunately.

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Re: How to Demo Record?
« Reply #22 on: December 01, 2012, 04:34:02 PM »
New question, and please forgive my ignorance.

I know playing back a demorecord requires the game client but will the playback work when the servers go down? Does is require the servers for data?

It does require the client to be installed though, so don't uninstall!
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Re: How to Demo Record?
« Reply #23 on: December 01, 2012, 04:47:17 PM »
2 of my demo records are giving me the message "don't know how to open this demo file." when I try to load it in CoH. The others work. I tried Googling this, but with most CoH places down now I'm not getting anywhere.

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Re: How to Demo Record?
« Reply #24 on: December 01, 2012, 09:11:24 PM »
While playing back a demorecord, hit F2.  That will 'decouple' the camera from the character and you can fly it around the zone (controls are a bit touchy).  I believe you can even dive under zone maps and fly the camera through the stuff down there (shop & hospital interiors, that sort of thing).

How do you control the camera?

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Re: How to Demo Record?
« Reply #25 on: December 01, 2012, 09:19:27 PM »
How do you control the camera?
That one took me a few, too.  Since the demo playback only knows about default keybinds, you'll need to navigate with WASD, SPACE, and X.
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Re: How to Demo Record?
« Reply #26 on: December 01, 2012, 09:39:03 PM »
2 of my demo records are giving me the message "don't know how to open this demo file." when I try to load it in CoH. The others work. I tried Googling this, but with most CoH places down now I'm not getting anywhere.

Do me a favor - copy the first 20 or so lines of the demofile and paste them in this thread.

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