Investigate re-enabling the demo recording system

[ijemafe]

Unreal Engine 2 had a "demo recorder" system which allowed you to record gameplay and play it back in-engine after the fact. It appears that this was disabled for Raven Shield.

However, there is still some code commented out here: https://github.com/ijemafe/raven-shield-1.56/blob/19bed4d29d2f712df7b7ead226653712410204df/engine/Classes/DemoRecSpectator.uc

I'd like to investigate the possibility of re-enabling this functionality, after Jugulator posted a cinematic made using a Rogue Spear demo in a similar manner.

It's possible that this is entirely too much work, but it's worth checking out.

[ijemafe]

From Twi:

Ubisoft disabled demo recording early in the development process, and then built an enormous amount of custom uscript for the gameplay, without compatibility with the existing unreal demo system in mind. So even if we could get demo recording enabled again, I would bet that 95% of what goes on in a game doesn't get recorded anyways.

[rvstwi]

If it was possible to re-enable, it could also be the basis of a COD-style death replay. As well as a great tool for server admins against cheaters.