Replay Player Camera.

[Kalvirox]

What if, we had a mod that would sync into replays so that we could switch to a players POV and see what they had selected and what part of the map they were looking at?

They have it in Starcraft. I think it would be a nice idea to have it for FAF aswell

[ZLO_RD]

that would be great

[Crotalus]

Yeah, played around a bit with this a couple of months ago. It would require some sane delta-compressing of camera movement and then come up with a way to store the actual camera commands with the replay.

Some ways how it could be implemented:

* Bad way: Every player save their camera data with SimCallbacks which then can be used at replay, Not very sane due to performance reasons (lots of calls during a game which scales with n-players).

* Better: Save the camera-data to server via GpgNetSend calls, after game completes the server can either store that data into FAFReplay header or just provide another way (http) of getting them at the time you want to watch the replay.

Theoretically this could be a better way of casting replays, instead of a "non-interactive" youtube video we can launch the replay + caster recorded audio/camera movement (which was saved when he watched the replay) and other players now have camera control / eco overview during the casting. On top of this we could let users add comments / chat / notes whatever when watching replay which then would get shown for subsequent viewers. (Soundcloudish).

The sugar on top would be to also have support for synchronized replay playback with friends. Throwing in the sink would be to let the server record a playback of the actual casting and auto-upload it to youtube for the audience currently lacking FAF-capability.

Aim would be to create a "community feeling" around each separate replay

[Nexus_of_Reality]

I really hope someone will make this happen It'd make learning from replay watching easier ^^

[Aulex]

I really hope someone will make this happen It'd make learning from replay watching easier ^^

Don't hope, seek someone out and support them as much as possible.