Improving "ProQuake" Demo Record At Any Time

[qbism]

That is much more elegant...
Record could take an additional argument, milliseconds, which is how far back in time to "rewind" the buffer. (Or a new record command with this behaviour.) "-1" or something could mean back to the max size of the buffer, which could be from the beginning if memory is large enough as Spike mentioned.

[r00k]

I'd suggest the following instead:

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      CL_UpdateDemoStat (STAT_TOTALSECRETS);
      CL_UpdateDemoStat (STAT_TOTALMONSTERS);
      CL_UpdateDemoStat (STAT_SECRETS);
      CL_UpdateDemoStat (STAT_MONSTERS);

And:

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void CL_UpdateDemoStat (int stat)
{
   if (stat < 0 || stat >= MAX_CL_STATS) return;

   MSG_WriteByte (&net_message, svc_updatestat);
   MSG_WriteByte (&net_message, stat);
   MSG_WriteLong (&net_message, cl.stats[stat]);
}

Adding this call to Host_Spawn will drop to console in local games
just using cl.stats[ in cl_demo instead of the pr_global_struct-> seems to work fine though.

[mh]

I don't mean add it to Host_Spawn, I mean use it in CL_Record_f instead of the code that Baker originally posted. Host_Spawn is fine as it is.