Recording and Exporting AutoCam replays

[Alberto]

Hi!

We've just added a new, un-announced feature: Recording and Uploading of Autocam replays!

Please note it's a brand new feature and we would like to hear your feedback, so we can make it even better.

To use it:

1. Play a battle, any battle. Frak some toasters
2. Choose View Replay
3. During the replay, press the Esc Key to bring up the control panel.
4. Select Record Autocam - The game will automatically rewind to the start of the battle and start exporting a video of the battle.
The videos are stored in \Documents\Black Lab Games\BSG\Videos
5. Once the video has finished recording, carry on playing!

To View and Upload:

1. On the main menu, select Video Browser
2. Here, you can view and replay all the videos that you've exported

To View:
1. Press Play to view the Video and select the Full Screen button to view full screen

To Upload:
1. Press Upload to upload the video to your YouTube channel
2. The upload program will ask your permission and ask you to authorise with your YouTube channel
3. It will then spawn a window to upload the video file
4. The video will be uploaded to your YouTube channel with a Public privacy setting and will appear on your channel once YouTube has processed it

To Delete:
1. Press Delete to delete the video

Thanks!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iza2WWfbBkY

[Berserk Belta]

引用自 Simulacra_53：

引用自 Slitherine_Iain：

We used to have the menu appear but people were missing the auto cam and as its so cool we wanted to default to that, so we think this is the better of the two options but happy to listen to feedback.

I'm not sure what you mean about the buffered replay. Whats the difference between that and not recording the replay as it works now?

The normal way a game replay is saved, is as in game code - which was what I tried to describe as "buffered replay". BSGD only offers to save an mp4 recorded version of the replay. That's great for exporting quickly to youtube, but inefficient if you just want an ingame replay.

I hope I make myself clear.

As for menu vs autocam, I don't see why this is mutually exclusive, but I am not in your dev team and won't press the matter :)

Amusingly in anything on a really big scale like TW battles this can get a bit error-prone, and people have expressed many times their wish for easy export to video.

Not that it's likely to affect this game's battles, it just made me smile to see this going the other way.

@devs - Depending on how much time you have to work on it, what might be good is if the ffmpeg export you're using could be configured in a text file, that we can fiddle with/share (at own risk/unsupported obviously). Some of us would be comfortable doing tthis and those who aren't can pick up a config that works from other players. Heck, even if we could just choose from some presets and have one default that might save you/us some problems.

[BoromiR]

devs i really love this feature but problem still persists. i am on a beefy pc (i7 4k, 8gb ddr3, gtx760 2gb) but when recording my fps goes from stable 60 to 20. i cant show to anyone laggy and jagged footage like that. there is something wrong with your recorder/encoder. every other recording software fraps, nvidia shadowplay, bandicam etc records stable 60...

[Shards]

@ Boromi, most other capture tools are running in a seperate process and just capturing whatever Windows is rendering. In order to capture in-game, we have to draw each frame to both the screen and also append it to a movie file. All whilst doing the usual game operations in the background. It's a more complex task and we're working on ways to improve it if we can.

Though if you have access to those other pieces of software, you may well get better results from them and should use them if you prefer!

[Haquat]

Why sometimes does the record feature just not work??

I mean it goes through all the auto-cam footage with the little record icon in the corner, but at the end, you just get that loading symbol non-stop.

I've just had such a fun battle (Chapter Ten) and wanted to record it, but after 2 attempts, it's just not saving to the videos folder....

[Laphtiya]

Same here, just receiving the endless "working" loader. I've tried updating the ffmpeg encoder but sadly no luck. I've missed out on recording some really amazing battles because of this. It has only ever worked for me once, but never again.

[Machine Spirit]

Ive not played this for a while, did they patch the ffmpeg error when some players try to record a game? I cant uninstall ffmpeg because Blender uses it, so I am hoping for a fix but if it has been fixed by now, it is all good.

Edit: I see they havent fixed it. Come on devs, this will impact my review when I eventually write one.

[Shards]

Hi,

Uninstalling FFMPEG would be bad as that's what is used to encode the videos :)

We're working with the third-party that developed the tool that we use to work out why it's just not working for some people. We don't have a confirmed fix yet, but we're certainly working on it!

[Machine Spirit]

Thanks for the update!

[jscott]

On my home PC (Windows 7) this feature works great. On my laptop (Windows 10), it looks like it is working when I click record Auto Cam, but the "Working" message never displays after the replay is finished and no video is ever saved.

Any tips on what is causing this?

[Shards]

Windows 10 doesn't always come with the base codecs that Windows 7 did.

You can try installing this from MS to see if it helps?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/search/result.aspx?q=Media+Feature+Pack

[jscott]

Pretty sure the U.S. version of Windows 10 Home does come with that. I can't find a download link that works for my version anyway.

[Shards]

The next patch will have an updated video library in it which may fix a few issues like this. When that releases, can you retry? If it's still not working then it might be useful to get logs from both of your machines so we can compare and see if there's a culprit?

Thanks!

[jscott]

Sounds good. I will wait for the patch and then give it a go.

Thanks!

[togo002]

I've lost the ability to save videos. I had to use OBS to record footage, its stuck on the working prompt.

[Socialitik]

引用自 Larkis：

I think the system could get some additional improvements.

1. Wait until a scene end befor you switch to the next. In this video, the cam following the one cylon torpedo is sooo awesome but before the torpedo hit the target the camere switched. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M6u1mEBXyo

2. Replay should start with ships jumping in. Maybe first 5 sekonds show the cylon fleet waiting of moving, then the colonials jump in. Or show the colonials waiting and then the cylons jump in. The shots in campaign replay when reinforcements jump in looks so great! Sadly you will never see it in a normal game. :(

3. More Damage States for the Sections. So when maybe front loose ther arme, whe should see fire and air venting out of the hull (look for example on empire at war for inspiration) so we can see without the data, how damaged the ships are. Made the autocam battle much more readable.

4. Battle-Chatter. it dont need to be real speech, it could be fake-speech like sims. But hearing the pilots talking durnig fight, big ships give commandos or damage reports (and explosionsounds) when torpedos hit a ship would be really awesome.

Add the ability to customize certain moments, for example(what I want):
Show the percentage of runs (of all missiles/ Nukes and conventional)
The number and type of displayed pictures for the fighters(fight, flight, launches and landings, deaths)
Show the number of deaths in ships(Or death of certain ships from the list of participating).

Maybe it is possible to add a percentage of perspectives of the battle.

Add a standing camera, which slowly enters the ship.


Добавить возможность настраивать определенные моменты, например (чего хочется):
Процентное соотношение показываемых запусков (всех ракет,/ Нюки и обычные)
Количество и тип показываемых картин для истребителей(битва, полет, стартов и посадок, смертей)
Количество показываемых смертей у кораблей(Либо смерти определенных кораблей из списка участвующих).

Может есть возможность добавить еще и процентные соотношения ракурсов битв.

Добавить стоячую камеру, в которую постепенно влетает корабль.