Why not just record the demo to where it will end up anyway and skip the whole moving part?
With SourceTV you can change the demo path by simply doing like tv_record "path/to/demo.dem", probably the same with the standard record command. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of N K Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [hlcoders] Change default demo directory and move demos after creation Hello everyone. I've got two rather special questions which I doubt have been asked before. I'm guessing that's also why I haven't been able to find anything about it on the internet so far. First of, I'm working with the OB version of the SDK. I've added a custom trigger to triggers.cpp that is supposed to start and stop a demo when the player touches it. That's where my first question comes up. I'm recording the demo to a temporary file that I want to rename and move after it's fully recorded. For that purpose I'd like to save the temporary demo in another folder than the root dir of my mod in /sourcemods (say in /sourcemods/mymod/temp). Is that possible somehow or is it not in the hands of modders? I have not been able to find anything about it in the source code the SDK provides so I'm getting the feeling it's not. Secondly, once the demo is stopped, I want to rename it after a certain scheme and then move it out of it's temporary folder (respectively the root dir if I can't change that). The problem is that it takes a certain time until the demo is stopped. Right now, touching the stopping trigger calls the Touch( CBaseEntity *pOther ) method from where it issues the following two commands: engine->ServerCommand( "stop\n" ); pPlayer->MoveDemo( pPlayer ); I've implemented the MoveDemo method in basecombatcharacter.cpp cause I need to access player specific variables I added to the class. Now my question is simply how I could work around this problem, meaning how could I make sure the MoveDemo function gets called when I can be sure that the demo isn't used by the application anymore. In that context I just thought of another question that's of similar nature. I don't want to stop the demo at the exact moment the player touches the trigger. I'd rather have a little time difference of say 6+ seconds so the demo doesn't stop so abruptly. I'm really happy about any input from you guys cause I'm completely stuck because of these problems right now. Thank you. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
