Replay current demo

[Jovian]

Hi guys

I am q3 defragging and often watch demos to improve certain things in my play. Thus I'm looking for the command that lets me replay the currently playing demo.

Since I use seismovision, its no problem to replay it, when I use this extra programme. But when I play a demo out of q3/demos/folder, I need the command to replay it. This would enable me to add it to my small demojog.cfg file that I exec everytime I'm looking at demos out of q3 defrag itself.

I found the way over ucguides.savagehelp into this forum. The help site is pretty good, this forum is active, so I thought I'll ask you guys.

Cheers!

[Tormentius]

I'll move this to Quake 3 Discussion for you. You'll probably get more help over there.

[dzjepp]

Do you mean fast forwards and rewind?

[dzjepp]

I'm not sure what you're looking for, but maybe give this demo cfg a try, it has a ton of useful commands in it:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/mdaar/photo.zip

[Jovian]

I never thought it'd be hard to understand, but I'll try again:

1. I start Quake 3 Arena
2. I choose from the menu: Demos (click)
3. I start the a random demo (click)
4. The demo runs. Ok, now there is a particular scene at the beginning of the demo that I want to see again, thus: I interrupt the demo by pressing esc and exit. So I am thrown back to the menu, where I can choose 'Demos' (point 2).

So: I want to restart the demo while it runs. It's that simple. The very moment in the demo I am so interested in just passed, and I want to see it again. So I want to restart the demo immediately.

That is: press a key and have it run again.

To do this: I need a command to restart the demo while it is running. So my question is: what's the command to restart a demo, so I wouldn't have to go through the menus again.

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[Don Carlos]

cant be done sorry dude
Just gotta find the demo name and then in the console type:

/demo *demo name here*

[[xeno]Julios]

i'm sure if you bind a function key to the bind that donny pasted it would work

/bind f5 "demo demoname"

then hit f5 during the demo.

thing is, it will still have to reload the map and all.

[dzjepp]

How about you just use timescale? Oh wait, but you can't rewind you can only fastforward.

[Jovian]

Good idea with that F5 bind, but that would require me to bind the exact demoname and do a lot of cfg editing.

It's possible, I know it, cause Seismovision (a small handy tool to replay demos and change angles and stuff during the demowatching), actually CAN do it. They bound a key to the function "replay current demo". But I can not find the exact command in the cfg files of Seismo anywhere. It must have been hidden in the programme's code, which is why I came to this forum. :icon27:

[[xeno]Julios]

does it reload map or is it able to replay demo straight away?

[Jovian]

it does reload the map also.
but that wouldn't really matter.
I just don't want to head through the menus again...

So I am just looking for the command or string or var-command that replays it whenever I press a key while the demo runs.

[Don Carlos]

Just copy the demo name from your demo's fold
load quake
type :
/demo *paste demo name here*

Just type that every time you wanna play it

[Zyte]

If you dont mind that the map is loading again when you restart, it doesnt really matter.

Just do as carlos said:
/demo *demoname*
when you start the demo, and when you want it to restart you hit ~ followed by UPARROW followed by ENTER and you're there, it restarts. So thats 3 keys you have to hit. Big deal.

[Jovian]

Thanks for your help.
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