[quake3] feature: advanced demo navigation

[Neil Toronto]

Ultra Freeze Tag had server-side demos. It was quite a hack - in a good 
way. The demo files were only a bit larger than MVDs of the same match. 
You could even play them back on the server, and have your team connect 
and watch the demo together. It was just like watching a regular match, 
but it was recorded.

Even though they were so much more useful than MVDs, people didn't tend 
to use them because they were so hard to distribute. MVDs got more 
attention just because of that. You don't have to have access to the 
server to swipe an MVD of your clan match - you just need to be a coach 
or a spectator, and record it locally.

Server-side demos might be easier to do in-engine. We had to jump 
through quite a few hoops to make it work well. And for the curious: no, 
I'm not stepping up to implement any of this. I've got grad school and 
PyQuake3 to do - other than that, I'm just a [quake3] troll. :)

Neil

Jorge Pena wrote:
> Ohhh, yeah that seems reasonable. Thilo, yeah, still a cool topic 
> though, I always thought about this but didn't know what it was called 
> or thought anyone else would think it's a nice idea haha.
>
> On 3/7/07, *Erik Kloppenburg* <kloppenburg at snt.utwente.nl 
> <mailto:kloppenburg at snt.utwente.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Jorge Pena wrote:
>     > Oooohhh, good idea! So then the server would give the
>     information to the
>     > person recording, no? So that'd still pose a risk, no?
>
>     No, I mean the server would record the demo and not give it out to
>     anyone. Except after the match, it can put the demofile up for
>     download
>     on a site or whatever.
>
>