Does Blockland's Current Modified TGE support videoplayback

[Ladios]

Older versions of the engine do, I know, but I haven't really gotten it to work within a game environment yet.
Even more, I don't know if the functions are even still present in Blockland's code.
I figure though, if we could still make it work it would add alot to what we can do in terms of story in our gamemode files.

Anyone been messing with this feature still know if it's functional?

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[HellsHero]

This was supported by default in v8 (With a main menu selection and all)

Not sure exactly how to do it, but these are part of it most likely. Don't know the arguments though

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%client.playDemo()
%client.prepDemoPlayback()
%client.prepDemoRecord()
%client.startRecording()
%client.stopRecording()

The thing is about the demo recordings is that it creates a LAN server to show you the demo, this was how it worked in v8 anyways.

What you could do instead is just use a camera that moves according to your script to do some cinematic, there's no need for prerecorded anything

[Blocki]

Gamemodes = garbage.

[Ipquarx]

Gamemodes = garbage.

This is completely irrelevant and unhelpful in every possible way.

Blockland DID have a demo recording system, as posted by HellsHero, but it was scrapped before even I joined blockland (v9) and does not work.

[Port]

What the hell. Less than 5 versions back I saw and successfully used a GUI control named something along the lines of "GuiAvi???Ctrl". I just checked and it doesn't seem to be there anymore.

[heedicalking]

cut more features! cut more features!

[-Jetz-]

I remember demos in Blockland Alpha. They were kinda neat, but they took forever to load and were pretty glitchy. I suspect it was just something Badspot and Kompressor never bothered to optimize, and eventually it got to the point where there was virtually no hope of updating them to work with the vastly different game.

Gamemodes = garbage.

Just gonna call it now - You'll get banned for voicing this opinion at some point in the future.

[Eeposs]

Gamemodes = garbage.

You're an idiot.

[Doomonkey]

Not too many versions ago the demo recordings happened to work when I was messing around with them. It was super duper neat.

[Ladios]

Gamemodes = garbage.

I apologize that there has not been a good enough example yet to show why these are much better. I have been hoping for something like this for a while now actually, and I am working on figuring out what I want to start on first. It's kinda hard to find time to mod while working two jobs.

The Camera idea is a pretty good fix for now but as I was kinda looking for things to hide level loading that might be a bit tricky but thanks.