recording demos in half-life

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Feb 08, 2002 5:08 pm

i posted this in the general forum and got no answer so maybe you guys would know.

is there anyway to record a demo in half-life , i saw something @ [H] forums about playing a demo but they would not tell how to record one ?

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Fri Feb 08, 2002 5:23 pm

Drop down the console. Type record blah.dem and it will record. To stop it type stop .dem

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Feb 08, 2002 6:27 pm

thanks bud , now how do i play one ?

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Fri Feb 08, 2002 7:03 pm

You need this

http://geekboys.org/geekplay-cs/index.p ... -1.0b3.zip

Install it, find the demos in your HL folder and your all set

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Feb 08, 2002 8:41 pm

hey thanks it works except when it goes to play it goes for about 5-10 seconds then the graphics get all funked up and it kicks back to the desktop.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Feb 08, 2002 8:47 pm

i think the problem may be it frezzes up when it loads to a new level in half-life in the demo.
could that be ????

noxiousg · Post by **noxiousg** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 11:05 pm

Hmm... the first description sucked, dunno about the linked file or whatever... but here is the commands...

record demonamehere.dem - start recording
stopdemo - stop recording
playdemo demonamehere.dem - play the demo

I've got more advanced commands for making the demo into a file which can be converted into an avi/divx/whateverthehellyouwant if you want that stuff too...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Feb 13, 2002 9:16 pm

Originally posted by noxiousg
I've got more advanced commands for making the demo into a file which can be converted into an avi/divx/whateverthehellyouwant if you want that stuff too...

sound interesting please go on

and thanks CoolJ that geekplay thing works well.

noxiousg · Post by **noxiousg** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 4:49 pm

Here's where I learned at...

http://csanimation.arenawars.net/making2.shtml

I've done 1 cs video and 1 dod video... it's fun to play with

but it's a time investment...

when you take the timedemo and do startmovie then timedemo agian, it will go ever so sloowly...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 5:44 pm

looks interesting will have to try that , thanks

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 5:57 pm

Originally posted by noxiousg
Hmm... the first description sucked, dunno about the linked file or whatever... but here is the commands...

Worked did It not?

n/p Snake

C-S wanna be · Post by **C-S wanna be** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 5:12 pm

you dont need to download any speacial stuff to watch a demo just open counter-strike or half-life whatever your playin then type playdemo blah.dem and away it goes