EPTProgram to resume games from replays - Page 3
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
Frankly all the cpp makes my head hurts but I trust you did a good job  | ||
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Oktyabr
Singapore2234 Posts
On April 13 2012 14:40 Canas wrote: Warcraft 3 has this function so I don't really think that's the case WC3 doesn't allow you to boot up a replay and let you resume playing from it. However, it does have the save and load tool for multiplayer games, which quite frankly, should never have been taken out of SC2. But I suppose that they might fear that their network code could be leaked in the process. And AFAIK this tech isn't something new. I remember clicking around like an idiot in AOE2 while watching "recorded games" and I end up controlling the units + production facilities. Might be a bug or it could be intentional, but I never bothered to find out. | ||
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hai2u
688 Posts
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
On April 13 2012 14:38 mrRoflpwn wrote: guy with 1 post posts download links, expects people to actually believe him. Or he expects that there are people on this forum who can read the source code he provided. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10325 Posts
On April 13 2012 14:48 Oktyabr wrote: WC3 doesn't allow you to boot up a replay and let you resume playing from it. However, it does have the save and load tool for multiplayer games, which quite frankly, should never have been taken out of SC2. But I suppose that they might fear that their network code could be leaked in the process. And AFAIK this tech isn't something new. I remember clicking around like an idiot in AOE2 while watching "recorded games" and I end up controlling the units + production facilities. Might be a bug or it could be intentional, but I never bothered to find out. I was wondering why they didn't allow you to save and load. Those functions would make it SO much easier to practice some things =/ Hm, that reminds me of that old chess game "ChessMaster" or something like 15 years back, it was one of the default games on windows 98 (?) or something. You could watch replays but sometimes it would glitch especially if you click on stuff, and the computer AI would start making moves like it was a game. Then sometimes it would go back to doing random moves as if it were still a replay lol. | ||
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nakedsurfer
Canada500 Posts
Looks, smells and sounds quite fishy. Besides, it's a third party program so if Blizzard could implement something of the sorts, they would and with their own program. They wouldn't do it through a 3rd party though because it'd have to be tournament only. That would end up leaking out and people would have it which they wouldn't want. Hence no lan and no "tournament only lan". | ||
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Shade_FR
France378 Posts
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Oktyabr
Singapore2234 Posts
On April 13 2012 14:51 Yoshi Kirishima wrote: I was wondering why they didn't allow you to save and load. Those functions would make it SO much easier to practice some things =/ Hm, that reminds me of that old chess game "ChessMaster" or something like 15 years back, it was one of the default games on windows 98 (?) or something. You could watch replays but sometimes it would glitch especially if you click on stuff, and the computer AI would start making moves like it was a game. Then sometimes it would go back to doing random moves as if it were still a replay lol. Yes, something like that. Most likely a glitch or something, but I understand why a save function might not as relevant in a RTS when disconnects are unpredictable, and the momentum of the game can be shifted in under 30s depending on whether a cheese or a timing attack is discovered before the disconnect. I was hoping that at least a reconnect function would be in by HOTS though, since that would help out as well. | ||
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MarKeD
Australia183 Posts
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Severian
Australia2052 Posts
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Amaterasu1234
United States317 Posts
does this mean...I can skip the first like...6 minutes of a zvp (the boring part) and just jump straight into 6:01?? 'because that'd be absolutely amazingly useful for speeding up practice! | ||
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SockArms
United States591 Posts
OMG AMAZING TOURNAMENTS SHOULD USE THIS! the possiblitys could be endless with this type of tool, practicing micro battles, jumping into the seat of your fav pro player vs a friend playing as his, not having another GSTL finals, I hope blizz brings this feature into hots or at least a reconnect like in dota2. | ||
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hegeo
Germany194 Posts
On April 13 2012 14:38 mrRoflpwn wrote: guy with 1 post posts download links, expects people to actually believe him. Guy writes proof of concept program to resume replays in SC2. Since being a first time poster on TL, comments for months in LR threads/Nada's body to gain credibility. Comes back and says he developed a program to resume replays months ago. Comments will call this fishy and unlikely- why didn't he post it months ago when he programmed it? | ||
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Severian
Australia2052 Posts
On April 13 2012 15:00 Severian wrote: Ok I just built and tested it somewhat. I can confirm that it allows you to resume a replay on your own (I tested it by creating a short replay against the AI with distinctive commands (spread my first drones out in a formation) then attempting to resume that replay. It replicated the actions perfectly and I was able to continue playing). I tried to load a replay from a very old version of SC2 but it didn't work, which isn't surprising. I don't have anyone available to test the ability to co-operatively jump into the replay, though I don't see why it wouldn't work. fyi I built my copy from source. I didn't download the binary from the OP, so I don't make any claims that the binary is virus-free. Same for the source but at least I'm subjecting myself to it too  | ||
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DigitalDevil
219 Posts
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BlackGosu
Canada1046 Posts
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hegeo
Germany194 Posts
On April 13 2012 15:04 DigitalDevil wrote: One programmer can do this within such a short span of time and Blizz can't implement something decent for who knows how long? I'm wondering - did they ever say they couldn't? I don't think so. | ||
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
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PeZuY
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