OS X Recorder: To aid in playback/creation debug recordings

Post by **dlh** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:36 pm

This module is just an interface to start Armagetron Advanced with --record, --fastforward, and --playback, if anyone was wondering. I reckon most users won't be able to start from the command line. Should be finished up pretty soon.

How are the people on Windows using the recording options?

Luke-Jr · Post by **Luke-Jr** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:59 am

More screenshots, please

working on a Qt port... =p

Post by **dlh** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:44 am

I went back and rewrote the whole thing.

= General
* Now stores where the Armagetron app is located in a preference file.
* Doesn't crash.
* Sheets instead of modal dialogs for most everything

= Recording
* Compressing a recording now works

= Playback
* If you open a compressed recording (.zip, .bzip2, .bz, and not yet implemented .gz), it will decompress it and play it. After the recording is done it will delete the decompressed file.

The only other thing missing besides .gz decompression is that the Armagetron app is not given focus. I don't think giving focus to another app started by NSTask is possible.

=Usage
First run you will get an alert requesting you set where Armagetron is located. If you ever want to change that it is in the App menu (Set ArmaAd location or something).

All other options are pretty self-explanatory. Maybe more OS X users will start recording now

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:53 am

You know, it would be nice if we could bind armagetron to a window of our choosing, you know, like how you can do that with mplayer. Does SDL let you do that?

Edit: Yes it does.

From:
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_5fenvvars

The Fine Wiki wrote: SDL_WINDOWID

For X11 or Win32, contains the ID number of the window to be used by SDL instead of creating its own window. Either in decimal or in hex (prefixed by 0x).

Might be worthwhile for you to find out if you can use this in OS X without needing X. Then it would be nice to have a pygame-based interface instead, when you can run it cross-platform.

Next feature request: commandline argument specifying what map to load, another one specifying "embedded", and the game will start up, load that map, and shoot striaght into a game with the AIs on that map.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:18 am

Lucifer wrote:Next feature request: commandline argument specifying what map to load, another one specifying "embedded", and the game will start up, load that map, and shoot striaght into a game with the AIs on that map.

You're thinking about adding a "Test" button to your editor, right?

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:23 am

onearmbandit · Post by **onearmbandit** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:25 pm

wow!

amazing recording app.

very very nice *thumps up

Does anyone know if there is new development on this?
And i thought i read somewhere (can't find it anymore) that it only works on your own mac, so no sharing these files? Would be great tho..

madmax · Post by **madmax** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:40 pm

onearmbandit wrote:And i thought i read somewhere (can't find it anymore) that it only works on your own mac, so no sharing these files? Would be great tho..

You can share the .aarec files... I think there's just some incompatibility between different Armagetron versions, like 0.2.8 <-> 0.3.

As of development what else would you need from this?
This is just an interface to the regular armagetronad --record/playback filename...

Post by **epsy** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:13 pm

madmax wrote:
onearmbandit wrote:And i thought i read somewhere (can't find it anymore) that it only works on your own mac, so no sharing these files? Would be great tho..
You can share the .aarec files... I think there's just some incompatibility between different Armagetron versions, like 0.2.8 <-> 0.3.

No, it's true. Armagetron recordings are totally unreliable, and it's mainly luck when you can play them back on different platforms. They were meant as something to help with reproducing bugs, not for recording matches(or whatever)

madmax · Post by **madmax** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:01 am

epsy wrote:No, it's true. Armagetron recordings are totally unreliable, and it's mainly luck when you can play them back on different platforms.

Yep, you're right... wasn't aware of that:

wiki wrote:you can't play the recording back in any other version of Armagetron than you recorded it with
you can't even reliably play it back with the same version on a different machine
you can't play the recording back at any framerate your client can manage
you can't skip backward
(...)

Don't recall having problems playing back one from a different platform though...