Opulent -- 4/12/2003 -- some Doomsday notes

Intro:
Doomsday is much closer to Quake than DOOM.  It uses external resources, key bindings, and console interaction.

Hopefully this will make some things easier for people in the DOOM demo community.(since this info seems to be missing from their latest FAQ...)
Lastly, this is an excellent port... the frustration to record demos in no way diminishes the outstanding work the Doomsday people have put into their releases... although the damn thing locks my computer about every 5th time I run it  =/


Installation:
1) download doomsday engine 1.7.8 from http://www.doomsdayhq.com/
(the install is good for DOOM, Heretic, and Hexen)
2) unzip it with sub-directories enabled.
3) move your Heretic Iwad -- that is patched to version 1.3 -- to the ...\deng-1.7.8 root directory
4) create a directory called 'Demo' at .\deng-1.7.8\Run\jHeretic\demo


To watch Andrey's demos:
1) create the 'demo' directory as in the Installation instructions above.
2) put the unzipped demos into that directory
3) run a batchfile with 'jheretic -playdemo <demoname>.cdm'
OR
3) start the game (jheretic.exe)
4) press the ~(tilde) key to pull down the system in-game console.
5) type 'playdemo <demoname.cdm>'
6) enjoy madskillz!  hehe
7) repeat for every demo in the directory until you feel so unworthy that you uninstall Heretic forever.  =P

note: in some operating systems(Xp for example), you can associate the file extension .cdm to the program to make this easier.  And with the kickstart launcher, this is probably easier too, but this way works for me, so nyah.  =P


To record a demo:
(for simplicity this is using Heretic as the example)
1) launch a new game (I recommend the jheretic.exe, but that's because I be old-fashioned :)
2) START a new game (on whichever skill setting you wish) in the gui in the game
3) bind t "stopdemo; -warp 1 3; -recorddemo temp"
(or modify this key binding in your cfg before you start the game)
press the 't' key
this will warp you to e1m3 and record a demo called 'temp'
note: A flashing message appears on-screen while a demo is being recorded.

personally, I'd edit your jheretic.cfg file (\deng-1.7.8\Run\jHeretic\jHeretic.cfg) with
bind +t "warp 2 3; recorddemo temp.lmp"
bind +y "stopdemo"
this will put the demo in the demo directory.
note: Doomsday doesn't care what you call the file -- 'a.lmp', 'a.out', 'a'  are all the same to the game.
note: as with any game that allows aliases and bindings, you can create a very elaborate demo recording and playback system with just the keys if you wish)

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gl and hf, Opulent