Server-side demos for ded server [Feature Request]

[jkr4m3r]

Consider this a feature request. Q3SDC back in the day made my Painkeep Arena Server popular as heck. I could take the most recent server demos and play them on a separate demo server in a rotation, and we would gather as spectators and laugh our butts off. I could even replay funny parts since I was the admin.

[brasey]

This would be cool, +1

[ensiform]

There's a patch for this already. See discord pinned messages. But it's experimental.

[jkr4m3r]

There's a patch for this already. See discord pinned messages. But it's experimental.

Thought I found it, but the links were dead. Also, I wouldn't know how to compile. Is there a recent ded server binary with this included somewhere?

[ensiform]

No there's not a server with it. It's not in the main code yet due to its unfinished state.

http://www.edawn-mod.org/binaries/q3e-mv-20190609.diff

It also likely won't apply correctly on the current codebase.

[jkr4m3r]

Cool, thanks for your help. It's such a cool feature on the QW MVDSV I thought perhaps I could find it somewhere for Q3.

[jkr4m3r]

I see an enhancement label has been added to this post... does this mean it may end up in the server?

That would be awesome.

[sedawkgrep]

My bud and I have spent the last couple hours scouring the Internet to see if this is doable in 2023.

We would LOVE to have this as an enhancement.

We use a dedicated headless server; hopefully doing demo recordings don't require gfx.

[jkr4m3r]

Curious if, or when, this may make it into builds for us regular non-coder player types?

TIA!

[sedawkgrep]

Curious if, or when, this may make it into builds for us regular non-coder player types?

TIA!

I hope it's on someone's to-do list. There's a group of five of us who play on my server. We've built a web page to rate maps, make comments, track statistics, etc. There's a sort of larger "environment" around our q3 gaming now, and being able to add demos to the mix would be a really, really great feature.

Not to mention that my bud and I have been playing q3 since it was released, and all of this is not only for our amusement, but for posterity for the kids. As weird as that may sound. :D