Is it possible to convert the original doom demos?
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Re: Is it possible to convert the original doom demos?
Yeah, that could work too. You're right, the codebase is pretty bad, I do remember that.
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Re: Is it possible to convert the original doom demos?
It does make me wonder how big such a recording would be, since I imagine the output would might be something akin to a UDMF TEXTMAP lump per frame. Manageable for IWAD-sized maps but something like BoA has a 9MB TEXTMAP. Even if you remove the static geo like vertex positions, that's still a lot of data.
Hmmm... Maybe saving just the deltas from each frame would make a workable "universal" demo format? If you could do it fast enough, that is.
Hmmm... Maybe saving just the deltas from each frame would make a workable "universal" demo format? If you could do it fast enough, that is.