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Cool!

Here's a quick little video I made testing RypelCam and visual settings with a demo from a game played today:

https://www.youtube.com
The way I did this involved a lot of guess work, placing the flags at different points and trying to time the demo replay with the camera movement. As you can see I lost the flag carrier at one point. Is there some way to set where you want the camera to be at the specific curtimes in the demo?

Yeah, the "autostart" mode does that for you. Whenever a campoint is created it receives a timestamp, so RCam can accelerate the camera accordingly.
Activate "autostart" by pressing the key "5". As soon as the demo time reaches the timestamp of the first campoint, the demo will pause. Set the view to the camera with "3", unpause, and the camera will start automatically.

Obviously, you will need to take attention while creating the camera path. You need to frame the scene correctly whenever you create a campoint. You should pause the game and take your time for this. I believe that is what the extensions to the demo manager by Poema are good for: you can fly around while the demo is paused!

Great! Just with my initial test it seems to play back fine now (had to tick third person spectate in the demomanager). What changes did you make to fix this?

A minor change so that SmartCTF does not know we spawn an actor - it assumes every new actor must be a player, leading to the crash.

And how can you force a demo to play back if it's missing files? I had demos I really wanted to watch that were just missing one file, a version of NewNet. I'm guessing that file isn't really necessary for the demo's playback.

I can upload the modified demo manager. Maybe put it all together as an official UT99 RCam update.

Here's a quick little video I made testing RypelCam and visual settings with a demo from a game played today:



The way I did this involved a lot of guess work, placing the flags at different points and trying to time the demo replay with the camera movement. As you can see I lost the flag carrier at one point. Is there some way to set where you want the camera to be at the specific curtimes in the demo?

Anyway, thanks again. Good to finally have this figured out after so long.

Great! Just with my initial test it seems to play back fine now (had to tick third person spectate in the demomanager). What changes did you make to fix this?

And how can you force a demo to play back if it's missing files? I had demos I really wanted to watch that were just missing one file, a version of NewNet. I'm guessing that file isn't really necessary for the demo's playback.

Try the attached RCam regarding the SmartCTF_4E crash.
It is supposed to be used with the remaining UT99 RCam files, esp. the demo manager, since that version has additional camera and movie making related code by {GkC}Poema. You can try if other versions work as well, of course, since newer versions have a lot of fixes for the demo playback.

Looked through the cache files and it looks like one of the cache files might've been updated between when the demo was recorded and now.

I couldn't find the correct version of "Multimesh.u" for that demo, had to modify the demo manager to force the playback even with missing files... it played fine anyway.

That demo played all the way through okay for me without RypelCam, using a DemoManager version from 2016, udemo.u is 301 KB and udemo.dll is 143 KB. Usually my demos recorded on that server will crash in the middle, supposedly due to problems with NewNet. But that's a separate problem.

Just did a little test playing the demo back with the DemoManager version included with RypelCam and it was fine. It's only when I go to Mod > Demo3+LoadCam that it crashes.

Looked through the cache files and it looks like one of the cache files might've been updated between when the demo was recorded and now. Here's a more recent demo if you want to see if this one plays. I know for sure it crashes about half way through.

https://mega.nz/#!ZShQ0ADL!SZwnliLJEaH8-wkXZWm9zIKRlrNY4Awicze2JQWEI-Y

Several demo manager versions I tried had issues with loading the demo at all, there is some issue with downloading the files required for this demo. After modifying udemo 3.5, the demo played fine, but without RCam - this is not the version that is supposed to be used in combination with RCam.

Did you get the demo to load if you don't use RCam, od did it always crash for you?
I'll test the RCam version over the WE.

Sure, sorry for the delay.

Here's the demo I was trying to use RypelCam with:

https://mega.nz/#!tbQFyAia!7nk-UB0aTmyxmPOKlVHXu1ukl4cxjS4M0TNac_vwckU

If you need cache files or the map, here's the server it was recorded on:

unreal://74.91.112.56:7777?password=pug

Mind sending me the demo to reproduce the error?

Thanks for this answer. I did notice that the RypelCam download here contained a different udemo version than the one I was trying (there are so many versions of the same file it can get confusing). Tried this one, and unfortunately the same error.

Hello abc,

RypelCam_UT99_v12 is the most recent release by RypeL.

RCam does not fix issues with UT99 demos, but rather allows to create camera paths. There is no reference to playerreplicationinfo whatsoever.

On the other hand, the third party demo manager (included in the RCam download), appears to apply all kind of fixes for the demo recording process and also the playback.

There are more recent versions of the demo manager with many fixes in the changelog. You may give them a try: http://medor.no-ip.org/index.php?dir=Utilities/udemo/

The most recent version seems to be "udemo_35", but there is also a version specifically called "udemo32_with_smartCTF4Dfix".

But apparently, for RCam to work properly, the included version "Unreal Tournament Demo Manager 3.0 by UsAaR33 with extensions by {GkC}Poema" might be required.