My goal is to be able to record a game to a file and then watch it like a replay/demo. This patch adds the recording part, by storing actions to a file (~/.wormux/record.dat). Rate is around 1KB/s.
My planned roadmap: - update GUIs for entering more thoughtful information in the file - read the file and somewhat be able to launch the replay. - provide another menu entry for loading replays. Ultimately, after that, cool things could be to: - be able to fast forward - modify replay file format (v2) to introduce key frames where full synchronisation can be performed (difficult, requires full game state storage); this could be useful for live action replay during game - be able to seek back during replay - update gui for any of the above actions that are possible But let's concentrate for now on what this patch does. There are 3 steps: - recording actions, which requires some modification to the Action class - the Replay class where most things is and will be implemented, and makefile.am to match that - interfacing with it; basically, wherever network packets are sent, we store them to in the Replay buffer I believe this requires some real review before going in. The changes are not simple, and could become even more intrusive with time. Maybe that's a dead end, and instead, creating a local server and client is a simpler solution (a la X11, where nothing really goes in the network). Comments highly sought after. Best regards, Kurosu[RFC
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