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This creates files with dumb names, like 'demo0001.dm_71', automatically incremented (anyway you will be able to change them later using your operating system). To end the recording, pull down the console again and type /stoprecord.

To record your own demo, you can pull down the command console and type /record command. The demo files in the demos directory will show up in the demo list when you choose the 'Demos' menu item. If you are in one of the mods, for example CPMA, the demo directory is 'cpma/demos/' instead of 'baseoa/demos/'. 3.5.4 About privacy and server-side demosĪll the demo files you record one way or another will be saved to a 'current-mod/demos' subfolder under your ' homepath folder', for example '~/.openarena/baseoa/demos/' (under Linux) or '~/Application Data/Open Arena/baseoa/demos/' (under Windows XP).

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3.5.3 How to use/watch a server-side demo.

3.4 Export to a sequence of image files.

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3.3.2.4 Enhance the graphical quality of the movie.

3.3.2.3 Saving the movie in a different drive than the OA user folder.

3.3.2.1 Recording a movie from the beginning of the demo.

3.3.1 How to create a movie AVI file starting from a demo.3.2 Using demos against suspect cheaters.1.3 Automatically recording all your games.dm_XX, where XX is a number that changes when major updates to the game change the protocol version, for example a demo recorded with OpenArena 0.8.5 (which uses protocol 71) will have a. avi format (third party software later needed to play and modify AVI video files).Ī demo file has got an extension like. However, it is possible easily to 'export' demos to 'movies' in. If you wish, you can send the demo file to friends of yours that use the game.ĭemo playback elaborates 3D graphics in real-time (the machine does not work like when watching a movie, but like when playing the game): this allows demo files to maintain reasonable size, but they can be played only using OpenArena, and demos recorded with too much different versions of the game may have compatibility problems. This means that you can record your matches (from your own point of view when you are playing, or from someone else's point of view when you are spectating) and watch them later, inside OpenArena. In OpenArena, a demo is a 'recording' of a match, stored in file that can be later played by the game.