AFireInAsa
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Alright guys, I believe it's time to put these demos to good use. Post your own demos and tell us what's special about it. Is there a sweet play bookmarked? Is the entire demo a marvelous masterpiece of gameplay? Do you need help getting better?
How to Record, Watch, and Get To Your Demos
You begin recording demos by clicking the "Demos" button in your in-game menu and changing "Record Demos" to "Yes".
You watch your demos by returning to the "Demos" button at the in-game menu and loading the selected demo.
You access your demos out of game by going into your Legions/live/legions/data/recording folder.
While you upload your demos, I ask that we use a uniform naming system in order to keep things organized.
Bookmarking
Bookmarks set a time stamp in your recordings so you and others can fast-forward to that time to see a specific moment in your gameplay. You can create bookmarks while playing in-game or while watching your demo by pressing F2. During playback, you can fast-forward to this bookmarked time by pressing F3. If your bookmark occurs after the point you want to fast-foward to, you need to bind a key to the "demo hud" in your options. Using this key will bring up a window where you can enter the amount of seconds you want to seek to before the next bookmark occured.
For example, if you type in 15 and press "set time", it will seek 15 seconds before the next bookmark.
Naming System
PlayerName.Map.Comment.Date
*Remember to rename both your demo and the txt file to the same thing, otherwise your bookmarks will not work
In order to distinguish between other people's demos, we need to throw in our name first and foremost (your most well-known name in the community, please). The map is information in case anyone in seeking demos from a certain map (you can say MultipleMaps if there are multiple bookmarked clips from different maps). The comment tells you what specifically is in this demo. And lastly, the date and time is retained from demo's original name (European style YY-MM-DD and HH-MM-SS). This may all seem a little bit complicated and excessive, but trust me when I say it is needed. Just check out this archive of Starsiege: Tribes demos and see how much of a mess they can be:
http://files.powdahound.com/gaming/tribes-1/demos
Here's some example names:
Fire.Frostbyte.PubChase.13-05-17
This is a demo of mine that showcases an entire pub where I chase.
Jicker.Elegiac.CapRoutes.13-05-18
This would be a demo of Jicker performing routes.
Blackhawk.Reactor.DoubleMidair.13-05-15
This would be a demo of a double midair Blackhawk got.
Shaska.MultipleMaps.BigPlays.13-05-16
This demo would include big plays over multiple maps all bookmarked.
Posting System
Use this template while uploading your demos in order to instruct users what they are looking at and where to look. In the instructions section, post the amount of time before each bookmark the play happens so the users can set the time to seek to.
Demo Name:
Bookmarks:
Comments:
Instructions:
Demo Link:
You have to upload your demo + bookmark (zip them together) somewhere in order to share it (the upload button on this forum does not support the proper extension for demos). Not sure what the best file sharing service is, I use www.mediafire.com
Organization Tips
Some tips on keeping organized.
1. First off, keep your demos short. You end a demo recording by leaving a game, so make sure you do this often (every game).
2. In order to weed out the bad demos, frequently go back and delete every demo that doesn't have a text document with the same name. If you have a good game with no great plays that you bookmarked that you'd like to share, make sure you bookmark before you leave the game just you know it's a good demo.
3. Only bookmark the really good stuff that you know you'll want to show off again.
4. Go through your good bookmarked demos and rename the best of the best stuff with the naming system above to sort it out from the rest of the demos.
Community Frag Films
Everything you post here has a chance to be used in community-wide movies. This is not a guarantee. I ask all movie makers to give credit to the player performing the play. Do not use someone else's footage and pretend it was yourself.
tl;dr
Always record while playing
Rename demos to this format: PlayerName.Map.Comment.Date
Upload to a site (megafire, filredropper)
Use posting template (above in red) and comment
How to Record, Watch, and Get To Your Demos
You begin recording demos by clicking the "Demos" button in your in-game menu and changing "Record Demos" to "Yes".
You watch your demos by returning to the "Demos" button at the in-game menu and loading the selected demo.
You access your demos out of game by going into your Legions/live/legions/data/recording folder.
While you upload your demos, I ask that we use a uniform naming system in order to keep things organized.
Bookmarking
Bookmarks set a time stamp in your recordings so you and others can fast-forward to that time to see a specific moment in your gameplay. You can create bookmarks while playing in-game or while watching your demo by pressing F2. During playback, you can fast-forward to this bookmarked time by pressing F3. If your bookmark occurs after the point you want to fast-foward to, you need to bind a key to the "demo hud" in your options. Using this key will bring up a window where you can enter the amount of seconds you want to seek to before the next bookmark occured.
For example, if you type in 15 and press "set time", it will seek 15 seconds before the next bookmark.
Naming System
PlayerName.Map.Comment.Date
*Remember to rename both your demo and the txt file to the same thing, otherwise your bookmarks will not work
In order to distinguish between other people's demos, we need to throw in our name first and foremost (your most well-known name in the community, please). The map is information in case anyone in seeking demos from a certain map (you can say MultipleMaps if there are multiple bookmarked clips from different maps). The comment tells you what specifically is in this demo. And lastly, the date and time is retained from demo's original name (European style YY-MM-DD and HH-MM-SS). This may all seem a little bit complicated and excessive, but trust me when I say it is needed. Just check out this archive of Starsiege: Tribes demos and see how much of a mess they can be:
http://files.powdahound.com/gaming/tribes-1/demos
Here's some example names:
Fire.Frostbyte.PubChase.13-05-17
This is a demo of mine that showcases an entire pub where I chase.
Jicker.Elegiac.CapRoutes.13-05-18
This would be a demo of Jicker performing routes.
Blackhawk.Reactor.DoubleMidair.13-05-15
This would be a demo of a double midair Blackhawk got.
Shaska.MultipleMaps.BigPlays.13-05-16
This demo would include big plays over multiple maps all bookmarked.
Posting System
Use this template while uploading your demos in order to instruct users what they are looking at and where to look. In the instructions section, post the amount of time before each bookmark the play happens so the users can set the time to seek to.
Demo Name:
Bookmarks:
Comments:
Instructions:
Demo Link:
You have to upload your demo + bookmark (zip them together) somewhere in order to share it (the upload button on this forum does not support the proper extension for demos). Not sure what the best file sharing service is, I use www.mediafire.com
Organization Tips
Some tips on keeping organized.
1. First off, keep your demos short. You end a demo recording by leaving a game, so make sure you do this often (every game).
2. In order to weed out the bad demos, frequently go back and delete every demo that doesn't have a text document with the same name. If you have a good game with no great plays that you bookmarked that you'd like to share, make sure you bookmark before you leave the game just you know it's a good demo.
3. Only bookmark the really good stuff that you know you'll want to show off again.
4. Go through your good bookmarked demos and rename the best of the best stuff with the naming system above to sort it out from the rest of the demos.
Community Frag Films
Everything you post here has a chance to be used in community-wide movies. This is not a guarantee. I ask all movie makers to give credit to the player performing the play. Do not use someone else's footage and pretend it was yourself.
tl;dr
Always record while playing
Rename demos to this format: PlayerName.Map.Comment.Date
Upload to a site (megafire, filredropper)
Use posting template (above in red) and comment
