Many people find this less cumbersome than launching via a modified shortcut or other method. However, it is imperative that -demoplay is the last parameter if more are provided.Īn alternative to playing back a demo via a shortcut to the game client is to use an application specifically designed to play back a demo (the application still does this via the game client but handles all of the operations required for demo playback automatically). Similar to above, however if you leave off the your_demo_name in your shortcut, you can drag and drop any *.cohdemo file onto it and that particular demo will play without need to specify the file name in the shortcut. Note that when playing back a demo via this method, the demo you specify in the shortcut properties must be in your client_demos folder. This should launch the game client into demo playback mode and play the demo you specified.
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To play back a specific recorded demo via a Windows shortcut, use the following steps: Two of the more common methods are either to create a shortcut to the cityofheroes.exe application and modify it to launch a demo or to use a player-made application specifically to play back demos. Recorded demos can be played back multiple ways.
In the example used above, the "coolinvasiondemo1" file would be found as follows: The demo recording file will have a suffix of "cohdemo". The recorded demo will be saved to your City of Heroes directory in the "client_demos" folder. It may therefore be advisable to wait until after the big boss fight to stop your demo recording. If you have recorded a very large demo (either lengthy or one featuring a lot of in-game activity), the game may pause very briefly when issuing the / demostop command. Please note that the demo will also automatically cease recording if you zone, such as when exiting a mission. To stop the demo recording, type the following on the chat command line: The demo name should be all one word and should not contain any punctuation (hyphens and underscores are acceptable, spaces should be avoided). Do not use quotation marks in the actual name. Where "demo_name" is the name of the file you wish to save the demo name as. To begin a demo recording, type the following on the chat command line: The demo playback can then be captured with a video capture tool and then further edited to customize your film, and to share it with others. This gives you the ability to modify demo recordings (or even create them from scratch) to make custom "movies" for playback via the game engine, allowing situations and events which may not exist during actual play. Because the demo files are just text files, demo recordings can be edited with any text editor, or with player-made tools specifically designed to manipulate demo files.
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The recordings created this way are not actual video documents, but simply text files with a record of all the commands, models, effects, and animations that tell the game engine how to render the recorded demos.
The demo feature allows you to make recordings of your gameplay and use the game engine to play back those recordings. 6.1 Commands Used In-Game for RecordingĪ demo in City of Heroes is an in-game recording made via the / demorecord Slash Command.
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