Demos at the end please!

[ajay]

Is it possible to play a number of demos at the end of a level/game etc - it would be right at the end, so nothing, parms etc, would need to be saved?

Thank you.

Me.

[Wazat]

Well, you can stuffcmd to the player "playdemo demoname", but after that it might be a fight to give control back to the player, since I don't think demos can initiate map changes, and once that demo is playing your current QC loses control.

Maybe you could do something like:
stuffcmd(player, "playdemo endingA; wait 330; map town");
which would presumably play the demo, wait 5 and a half minutes, and go to the town map.

[Urre]

Wazat, you should know that demos can very well initate map changes, and whatnot

I'm not entirely sure how it's done, but I know some old mods do this. Best guess is that there's quite simply a "changelevel blah" at the end...

[LordHavoc]

Is it possible to play a number of demos at the end of a level/game etc - it would be right at the end, so nothing, parms etc, would need to be saved?

Thank you.

Me.

call stuffcmd at the end of the demo, that will write a svc_stuffcmd message into the demo which will do whatever you want, Nehahra used this to end its cutscenes and go back into the game (note: it stored all the parms off into cvars so they'd survive the cutscene, and restored them on entering the new level).

[Gilgamesh]

Is it possible to play a number of demos at the end of a level/game etc - it would be right at the end, so nothing, parms etc, would need to be saved?

Thank you.

Me.

call stuffcmd at the end of the demo, that will write a svc_stuffcmd message into the demo which will do whatever you want, Nehahra used this to end its cutscenes and go back into the game (note: it stored all the parms off into cvars so they'd survive the cutscene, and restored them on entering the new level).

So, if we use a alias like "demo_ended" and stuffcmd it, we can change it before the demo initiates, giving use a "reusable" demo? Nice!

[ajay]

Thanks everyone, I've got it running one demo, but I can't get it to return back to a level, or play another demo.
This is really interesting:

call stuffcmd at the end of the demo, that will write a svc_stuffcmd message into the demo

But although I partly get it, it's kind of outside of what I can freely write myself, could someone write an example?

Sorry and thanks

[Sajt]

I believe making a demo call a map back is done via one of the demo utilities that have been released by third parties... basically, a 'map level' stuff can be added at the end of the demo. I think that's also how they did successions of demos (other than startdemos)

[Kools]

Keygrip works well for such things.