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Updates for playback in CVS
- To: cow@netrek.org
- Subject: Updates for playback in CVS
- From: Jeffrey Nowakowski <jeffno@ccs.neu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:45:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Delivered-To: netrek-cow@netrek.org
I've made several improvements to COW playback with CamBot in mind.
They are:
- Can jump to any point in recording.
- Can lock on to cloaked players.
- Tactical/galactic repaint when paused.
- Can lock on to different players when recording paused.
The interface to jump around the recording is a bit cryptic, but until
someone creates a GUI with VCR buttons, it'll have to do.
Here's how it works:
You can hit '=' to find out where you are in the recording. It'll
then spit out on stdout something like "sequence #15702" if you were
about halfway through the game (there are roughly 30000 sequences, or
updates, in a typical cambot recording).
To jump to sequence number 12345, you would type the following input
characters: j12345j
The first 'j' says to start accepting jump input, and the second one
marks the end of input. If you make a mistake while entering numbers,
you can hit 'J' to abort.
Like I said, it's cryptic, but it works.
-Jeff