This wiki is archived and useful information is being migrated to the main bzflag.org website

Recordmatch

From BZFlagWiki
Revision as of 10:44, 26 May 2009 by Mr Burns (Talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search

Recordmatch is a standard plug-in that is shipped with the source code. It allows for match games, such as league matches, to be recorded onto the server to be replayed later. It will automatically record when a game (match) is started, and it will record with a filename given by the current date and time. Recordmatch is included in v2.0.6 and later releases.

Usage

When the recordmatch plug-in is loaded, it waits for a match game to be started. When a game is started, it will create a new file to store the recording, named with the current date and time. When the game is ended, it will stop recording and close the file. The plug-in is loaded in the same way as any other and takes no parameters:

-loadplugin "/path/to/the/plugin/recordmatch"

or with the in game commands if the server is already running:

/loadplugin "/path/to/the/plugin/recordmatch"

The "-loadplugin" syntax is used in the server configuration file or at the command line when invoking a game server.

History

The BZFS API was changed in the development of v2.0.6 to allow for recordings to be started. Recordmatch is the first plug-in to use the newly-added capability.