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Re: Recording Doom Game

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From: sama... Sean Matheis
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 09:29
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rob...@netlab.cba.hawaii.edu (Robert Chu) writes:

>In an earlier post someone recorded these commands to record a doom game to 
>a lmp file...

>The pertinent commands to do this are:
>doom -wart [1-3] [1-9] -skill [1-4] -record [filename]
>doom -playdemo [filename]
>doom -nodraw -timedemo [filename]

>Ex.
>  doom -wart 1 1 -skill 4 -record demo1
>  doom -playdemo demo1
>  doom -nodraw -timedemo demo1
>Demo files use a default extension of .lmp.  You don't need to include
>an extension.

>The first command line runs properly as I go directly into doom, but once I 
>exit no file is created.  Am I to end at a certain point in the game?  do I 
>have to save?  Is exiting the proper way to record the file?

You need to either finish the level or die for the file to be written -
I *think* this is in the FAQ :)



On a side note: Hank, you are a god.  Thanks for compiling that beast :)

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