All the time when working with the Demo Smoother, you can still go into "Camera drive mode" and move around the map. Check the "Show All" checkbox to see the complete camera path in your demo file (drawn white). The first thing to do is to pause the playback and load the existing view data from the current demo file by hitting "Reload". To open the Demo Smoother, hit the "Smooth." button in the Demo Playback window. This can be used to smooth out the recorded view or create completely new camera paths. The Demo Smoother is the most complex of all demo tools and allows to override the camera view in demo files. Skips demo playback ahead to a specified tick and resumes playback. The following list gives an overview about the available demo commands:
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Once the demo command list is complete, you can save it to the demoname.vdm file by hitting "Save". Existing commands can be changed by pressing "Edit." or removed with "Delete". Then hit "OK" and a new demo command will be added to the command list. If you added a new Pla圜ommands entry, choose a new name ("My command"), set "Start on" to "TimeUseTick", enter a valid tick and enter the console command to be executed, e.g. Each demo command has a user given name and point of time (clock or tick) to be executed. To add a new command, hit the "New->" button and choose a demo command you want to add, for example Pla圜ommands to execute a console command. VDM text files are loaded and executed each time a demo file with the same name is played. The demo commands are not saved within the demo file itself, but in a extra text file named demoname.vdm. The Demo Editor can not change the camera view, use the Demo Smoother to do that. These demo commands can display text, fade in/out, change the FOV or run any other console command. The Demo Editor allows you to add and execute a set of commands during demo playback. To open the Demo Editor GUI, press the "Edit." button in the Demo Playback window. Press the "Drive." button again to switch back to the normal demo view. When the playback is paused, this is a really useful to make a screenshot (use r_drawviewmodel 0 and cl_drawhud 0 to cleanup the screen). You can move up and down with Z and X, and slow down with the ⇧ Shift key. To navigate the camera, move the mouse out to the viewport, keep the left mouse button pressed and move around using the W, A, S, and D keys. The button will stay in the pressed-down state as long as the "Drive Mode" is active. To change the camera's viewpoint, switch to "Camera drive mode" by pressing the "Drive." toggle button. You can jump to a specific tick within the demo by entering the target tick in text input field and press the "Goto:" button. Like time the current and total ticks are displayed left of the "Goto:" button. Internally recorded demo files use time stamps called ticks to mark single frames within the playback. Under the overall progress bar are the playback control buttons like the toggle button "Play", "Pause", "Resume", step forward ">", go to start "||" (some features aren't working yet, like step back "<", fast backward "<<") Using the slider on the right, you can adjust the playback speed between slow-motion and fast-forward (0% to 600%). The current and total playtime is shown right below. The current loaded demo file name will be shown right beside the "Load." button. To load a new demo file hit the "Load." button and choose a file from disc. The Demo Playback window allows to pause and resume, change playback speed or move your camera viewpoint. Timedemo plays a demo as fast as possible and shows performance stats after the playback is finished (total drawn frames, seconds needed for playback, average frames per second and variability).Īnytime while playing back a demo file, the Demo Playback window can be brought up by pressing ⇧ Shift- F2 or the demoui command.
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If you want to use demo playback for system benchmarking use timedemo "name". To playback a previously recorded game, type playdemo "name". If a changelevel occurs while recording, the current demo file will be closed and a new demo file name_2 (name_3, name_4, etc.) is created. You can start recording anytime within a running game and stop recording with the stop command. The demo file (.dem extension) is saved in your current game directory, e.g. To record a game, type in console record "name", while the file name shouldn't have any special characters or spaces. These functions are provided via console commands or GUI tools like the Demo Playback window, Demo Editor and Demo Smoother. The Source Engine provides a set of tools to record a game to a demo file for possible editing and later playback.