Fun with recordings!

[Kmot]

All of you genius's probably know about this already, but just in case there is one person who hasn't figured it out yet....... :p

Back in G3 I used to play multiple recordings together and it was a lot of fun. Then in G4-G4.5 we 'thought' we had lost the ability to do this but it was pointed out in a thread that a Console command "loadrecording" could be used to run multiple recordings.

I made another last night. One at a time, I recorded one of the various 1930's race planes available in RealFlight and/or on the Swap Pages. I flew them at Air Race Stadium, and made five laps around in the same circuit. I did this with seven different airplanes.

When finished, I loaded all seven recordings. As I loaded each one in turn, I hit the "II" pause button and then dragged the time line back to the starting point.

When all seven had been loaded, it looked like the first picture here. Seven playback windows stacked on the screen and seven aircraft stacked on each other at the spawn point.

I quickly, as fast as I could move my cursor around, clicked on the ">" start icon and got all aircraft airborne.

This is where the fun starts. :)

You can drag each playback window and stack it on top of the other so that you end up with only one playback window visible on your screen as shown in the second photo.

Now with all the aircraft flying and restarting continuously, you have several options. You can load another airplane, and go flying and "race' the other planes. You can also while doing this go into "chase view" and follow them around the course.

Or, as I do, you can simply "spectate" the races. But, I use the "Walk" command to move about the field into a more interesting viewing point. And I use the scroll wheel on the mouse to lift my viewing point directly in the path of the aircraft. Further, you can select in your "View" command which aircraft you want to look at. Select an airplane, and now the "C" command will put you into, or in chase view of that particular airplane and you can follow along as it 'races' the other plane.

Hours of entertainment! :p

[Hammer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SkJai8RFM

this video here has 20 recordings flying in formation. I had all those little windows closed out before the video began. It used to crash my G2 to start more than 5 at a time, so i waited for them to come around each time than added 5 more until they were ready for the recording. Getting all the recordings the SAME LENGTH was key.

[grndpndr]

Great idea, you should post a recording to the swaps. I think you've singlehandedly solved the multiplayer issues. The next time it goes down we can load your recording and go racing. And yes I am being serious it is coincidence that it seems comical. ;) :) )

[Kmot]

I forgot to mention that before loading up all the recordings, I first loaded a different, small airplane. Then using 'chase view' I moved the airplane to one of the pylon towers, and killed the motor.

Then go back to 'fixed view' and the scenery for all practical purposes is now clean and devoid of any aircraft.

Load your recordings as above. :)

[Kmot]

Okay, here is a video of some different angles I pieced together. I had toggled my audio to be "On" but for some reason Fraps did not record the sound. Too bad actually because you can hear planes behind, overhead, in front, etc. Anyway, I added a music track to it just to keep people awake. :p

http://www.vimeo.com/7871139

[theluthier]

Finally got around to trying this. I made a couple of recordings flying through the Aqueduct Obstacle Course. Lot of fun chasing "myselves" through the course. Way more fun than flying alone.

Thanks, guys.

Regards
Michael

[Kmot]

I tried another variation yesterday, and it was pretty fun also.

I loaded a 3D airport, and then one by one chose an aircraft and flew it around in a circuit while recording it. Same as above with th pylon racers. But these are all different sorts of airplanes, glow, and electric. I recorded eight different planes and then loaded all the recordings, while using a ninth plane as my 'current' airplane.

Again, as above, eventually after a few minutes the planes are starting, flying, landing, at different times. This makes it like a busy day at the model airplane field. I can either sit back and watch from various angles; fly in the pattern with them; or go into chase mode etc and fly formation. :)