Demos

Requirements

Jumping demos

• Be sure that the jumps are not in our pack already! Means: watch our demos before you start making your own ones.
• The jumps must be well performed. Means: no plumming, screw-ups or any other irrelevant behaviour, like writing between the jumps.
• Correct filenames. Means: the packet jumps_mapname.zip and demos inside the packet mapname_j#.dm2, where # stands for the number of the jump.
• No J-mod puppet jumping. Means: you can get to a million places through million different routes if you use J-mod’s puppets, so there’s no sense of providing that kind of demos here. Exception: when you can get to some place only with help of a puppet, then we can reconsider uploading it.

Clanwar demos

• The CW has to be special in some way. Means: we are not going to host all the normal newbie matches you’ve got out there.

How to

Viewing demos

1. Open the demo packet with an archive program.
2. Extract the contents of the .zip into your Quake2’s subdir action/demos. Make sure it doesn’t create a new subdir into demos/.
3. Start your Q2 client and load AQ2 by typing set game action;map base1 to the console.
4. All Q2 clients have the command map, so type map demoname.dm2, where demoname is the name of the demo. The other way is nowadays supported by most used clients: type demolist, find the demo ID, and then type demoplay ID.
5. If there’s anything you wish to skip in the demo, use timescale. Typing timescale 2 results in the demo going on 2 times the normal speed. Remember that you can’t rewind it, so don’t overuse this.

Recording demos

When you’re on server and ready to record, type record purepwnage and the demo will show up in your action/demos folder with name purepwnage.dm2. When your demo is done, just type stop. Simple as that.

Some more advanced clients, such as AprQ2 and NoCheat, have automatic recording function.