Replay Tweak

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 05 Apr 2006, 03:46

Just a small little thing to add to the replay files to make my life easer. Could the current Spring version and the time/date the game was played be added to the replay file? Something like:

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[GAME]
{
        //Other Information
        
        Version=0.07b3;
        DateTime=2006-04-05 11:44:23;
}

Also, if possible, could the date/time be the date/time for GMT +0?

Thanks

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 20 Apr 2006, 15:15

Bump.

Any news on this at all? I cant imagine it being hard to do...

jouninkomiko · Post by **jouninkomiko** » 21 Apr 2006, 01:00

Should be pretty trivial. If no one has done it in the next few days, I'll patch it up. (Gotta re-acquire the source and libraries etc first). Since it really won't have any side-affects, I think no one will have a problem with me putting it in :)

IceXuick · Post by **IceXuick** » 21 Apr 2006, 05:16

nice idea!

offtopic question.. Is it possible to rewind a replay.. if i want to look at the nice comm explosion again :) !!

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 21 Apr 2006, 05:21

jouninkomiko: Thanks for that, it will be much appreciated.

IceX: Nope. Lots of people want it, but it would be hell to implement.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 21 Apr 2006, 10:58

IceXuick wrote:nice idea!

offtopic question.. Is it possible to rewind a replay.. if i want to look at the nice comm explosion again :) !!

Only technical possibilities for this would be:
1) Store keyframes every now and then and allow '(re)starting' the replay from any keyframe. This will probably cause hiccups during gameplay though, and will make the replay files MUCH larger.
2) When rewinding the replay, restart it from the beginning and run it at max speed (100% cpu) until the desired poiint has been reached. This is easier but still much work because the engine isn't really capable of restarting a game.

IceXuick · Post by **IceXuick** » 21 Apr 2006, 19:41

bollucks! but not a major problem.. it's a pity..

jouninkomiko · Post by **jouninkomiko** » 21 Apr 2006, 23:23

[VERSION]
{
GameVersion=0.70b3;
DateTime=2006-3-21 21:18:24 GMT;
}

Apparently Zaphod added the [VERSION] tag with GameVersion there already sometime in one of the past releases. I'm committing the code that adds DateTime in the manner above

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 22 Apr 2006, 06:01

Thanks, this will really help wth what im making. When the new version comes out, expect a new release from me!

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 22 Apr 2006, 06:43

Actually, now that I think about it, would it be possible to have the time in the Unix time format, as PHP's time outputs? Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, but after thinking about it, this would work much better. Thanks again

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