Status

• You can get the source from the download page. This code is for experienced developers only. You have been warned!
• OpenDemo has a working prototype for JK2, Q3A, RtCW, SOF2, and STEF.
• Nobody updated the RtCW Windows project files for the use with OpenDemo, so there is no possiblity yet to create the OpenDemo Windows shared library (DLL) for RtCW on a Windows system. They were compiled with a cross-compiler under Linux.
• I make the compilation batch files with the main Makefile, they may not work but no Windows user tried them out yet.
• OpenDemo can record a demo on the server side into a plain text file.
• The demo file can be edited with any decent text editor or even better with a XML editor.
• The XML file conforms to a DTD for JK2, Q3A, RTCW, SOF2, and STEF.
• The (manipulated) demo file can be replayed.
• On replay, the viewer can choose between a first-person look or a free-flying spectator look (``user controlled camera''). Is there any other art form, which uses recorded stuff but gives the viewer full control over his viewpoint?
• The server can replay the demo file endless, which makes a good ``demo server''.
• Since november 2001 Eugene 'HMage' Bujak starts contributing to OpenDemo, which finally brings it to a usable state.
• I started coding on the record part of OpenDemo in march 2000 but had to stop in may 2000. But fortunately, Conor Davis took over and finished in march 2001 a first full working version of OpenDemo. Starting in august 2001, I participated again more actively.
• game/bg_lib.c/AddFloat() needed fraction support to allow printf with the %f format. Matthew Raymond provided me with the necessary patch.