vespene.gg — BW replays in browser - Page 3

On May 24 2026 11:47 p4fn2w wrote:
Bug report on supply count with this replay: https://vespene.gg/?replay=bw:MM-FC39DC3C-5374-11F1-A3DD-FA167B5461B6

I am focusing on dlqwkdckdl's POV (Red protoss, bottom right)

Supply counter (top left panel) bugs:
- Inconsistent build order timings: when he builds his first Pylon, the supply counter on the top left shows 7/9, but it should be 8/9. I think it is not counting the probe currently being built? This off-by-N is consistent across a big portion of the replay, so it's difficult for me to record the exact supply when he constructs a building or a unit.
- Supply denominator not updating instantly: when the first pylon finishes around 1:11, the supply denominator doesn't increase from X/9 to X/17 immediately. It only does so after a while. Similarly, at 1:38, the Brown protoss shows 10/9 supply

Build Order Queue tab (top right panel) bugs:
- When I switch to "Queue", "Me", and have it show the build order, these supplies are not exact. For example, the gateway at 1:15 should be built during 10 supply, but this panel shows 11 Gateway. Similarly, the Dragoon at 2:39 should be built during 16 supply, but this panel shows 22 Dragoon.
- Duplicate entries: the Dragoons built at 23 (x2), 24, and 25 seem to be queues, but not actual unit production. Same goes for Pylon at 26 and 27 (x2)
- Low priority QoL request: instead of "Me" and "Opp", it would be nice to replace those text with the actual player names (dlqwkdckdl and NCS_Bestt) or, if its too long, maybe the player color (Red and Brown)

Audio is a nice QoL! Right now it only plays the Zealot confirm action audio though. I'm assuming it's still being worked out and should have all the different unit sounds eventually. I am a big fan of the background music in Starcraft, so would love the ability to play the background music too!

I notice a bit of lag when the canvas first finishes loading and renders the replay this time. My entire browser freezes and I can't switch tabs. This only happens on the first frame after loading when the browser draws the map tiles, and my browser freezes for like ~5-10 seconds. I think something changed to cause it to be more demanding. I didn't notice this lag before.

On June 02 2026 19:02 iCCup.Trent wrote:
Hey deth, this is amazing work, thank you!

I'm interested in the underlying architecture if you'd be able to share more? I don't see a repo to look into. This technology would be useful outside of a "live replay" UI, since it can augment information that is not available by consuming the replays directly.

UPDATE: ran some research on this, tell me if I'm accurate here. Are you using OpenBW and running a downgrade_replay-like tool to be able to consume 1.18 replay files onto it? If so, I see the value in a CLI tool that simply "extracts" the augmented replay content, much like screp does for replays themselves, as a foundation for richer output use cases like this. I'd be keen to collaborate on this.

On June 14 2026 18:35 p4fn2w wrote:
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I love when you click on a unit they talk back to you. However, it is a bit hard to click on a unit. I think their hitbox may be misaligned with the visual sprite? ..... So if you click on the dragoon sprite itself, it won't register, you have to click on its top-left corner. All the units seem to work this way.

Small note: the top bar has very nice updates and seem to follow the game state more accurately now (worker count, supply, mineral, etc). However, the supply counter seems to count only the already built units, not the ones currently building (which does take up supply in-game, and also is used for build order timings). Is this intentional?

On June 16 2026 23:37 Wintex wrote:
this is frickin beautiful work, i wish i could make something so cool.

On June 17 2026 05:29 p4fn2w wrote:
QoL request (low priority): I would like there to be some way to easily count the number of units. Sometimes I want to scan how many probes are mining in this expansion, or how many dragoons are moving out in the push. Is it possible to add a drag-box multiselect just like in the game? Or if that's too complicated, maybe a ctrl + click (which multiselects all of the same units in the screen, just like in the game)?

This is a super low priority (I can always just pause replay and manually count), so no worries if not

On June 26 2026 06:33 p4fn2w wrote:
It's been great! Definitely feels more polished and helpful as a study tool.

Some small QoL suggestions:
1. From landing page -> Pro Brood War, can the page remember my search filters from last time? So I don't have to set the filters every time?
2. From landing page -> Pro Brood War, can each replay entry in the search results table show the date of the replay, and the Blizzard server (eu, korea, etc)? (and some way for the search to filter by date or server)
3. When a replay is opened, can there be a way to view the replay metadata details (date, MMR, map name, and possibly the Blizzard server)? Maybe an extra button in the Menu dropdown?
4. When a replay is opened, for the build order timeline (right side of screen), when I click on for e.g. a Pylon it jumps the replay to that point in time the player builds the Pylon. Can you make it so that when I double click on the Pylon, it also jumps the camera to the location of the Pylon being built?