What was the problem with some recordings? I suspect the name that was processed by the EUT was not exactly in good condition and the generation of unusual invalid altered filenames. If you ask me if I solved the problem, the answer is: It seems to have been solved.
I have changed the strategy of recording names using the old and ancient "underline" character instead of ":" and "." used in time-stamp...
Then I wrote a small mutator that does pretty much what EUT says, but it automatically starts recording when the game starts. Using a "more normal" filename, we generated a DEM record named after the map name, start date and time.
The recording can then be moved more or less automatically somewhere to be examined. We have a small advantage from udemo which shows us which files are not OK to view the recording and it is desirable to have EXACT the files we have in the server. I repeat, the recordings have details in HUD and sounds very much like what a client sees when playing EUT games, it is not the same everywhere. The toy addressing server is basically like here, simple without a configuration so far:
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class SDemo expands Mutator;
var bool bDemoStarted;
var string filename;
event PrebeginPlay()
{}
event PostBeginPlay()
{}
function ModifyPlayer(Pawn Other)
{
Super.ModifyPlayer(Other);
if (bDemoStarted) return;
else
{
if ( DeathMatchPlus(Level.Game).bStartMatch && !Level.bDemoRecording )
{
filename = String(Outer.Name);
filename = filename$"_";
filename = filename$LogDate();
log("Match and Record have been started using"@filename,'AutoRecord');
Level.ConsoleCommand("demorec \""$filename$"\"");
}
bDemoStarted = True;
}
}
function string LogDate()
{
local string d, t;
d = Level.Year$"-"$PrePad(Level.Month,"0",2)$"-"$PrePad(Level.Day,"0",2);
t = PrePad(Level.Hour,"0",2)$"_"$PrePad(Level.Minute,"0",2)$"_"$PrePad(Level.Second,"0",2);
return d$"__"$t;
}
function string PrePad(coerce string rv, string p, int i)
{
while (Len(rv) < i) rv = p$rv;
return rv;
}
Good and... less good things recommended in said EUT server with regard to INI - simplified... if not too simplified.
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[Engine.Engine]
NetworkDevice=IpDrv.TcpNetDriver
Console=UTMenu.UTConsole
Language=int
GameEngine=Engine.GameEngine
DefaultServerGame=EUTSource.EUTDeathMatchPlus
Input=Engine.Input
Canvas=Engine.Canvas //I don't see which demoDriver it's used - does it work then ?
... //there is no render defined and nothing else related to clients
[Core.System]
PurgeCacheDays=30 //Server won't cache anything anyway
SavePath=../Save
CachePath=../Cache
CacheExt=.uxx
Paths=../System/*.u
Paths=../Maps/*.unr
Paths=../Textures/*.utx
Paths=../Sounds/*.uax
Paths=../Music/*.umx
Suppress=DevLoad
Suppress=DevSave
Suppress=DevNetTraffic
Suppress=DevGarbage
Suppress=DevKill
Suppress=DevReplace
Suppress=DevSound
Suppress=DevCompile
Suppress=DevBind
Suppress=DevBsp
Suppress=DevNet
Suppress=ScriptWarning //Hooligan behavior - you should be arrested quickly and jailed !
Suppress=NetComeGo
Suppress=NotifyAcceptingConnection //I did not know this
...
[Engine.GameEngine]
CacheSizeMegs=128
UseSound=False //I suspected that server don't need this - it's stupid - plain servers by EPIC are having this TRUE, after messing up with GetSoundDuration too...
ServerPackages=EUTSource //This is probably pointless - game-type goes automated mapped in ServerPackages
ServerPackages=EUT_Sounds
ServerPackages=EUT_Textures
...
ServerActors=EUTSource.EUT //this is firing mutator responsable with demo record and HUD and... all that stuff - excuse me but these docs have holes
...
[Engine.GameInfo]
...
PlayerViewDelay=1.000000
PlayerSpeechDelay=0.300000
PlayerTauntDelay=2.000000
bLogAdminActions=True
LoginDelaySeconds=3.000000
MaxLoginAttempts=3
ActionToTake=DO_KickBanPlayer //Now this is good for spoofing logins in order to gain a native weak ban...
...
)
to sleep. Turns out when you play with sub-conscience behind the wheel, - it may be even better.