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Why is this not possible? Devs pls this would be a quality of life upgrade to replays
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| 1 | Within Spring a replay is played as a stream of actions, as calculate within an engine. The state of the game, where units are, what actions are ongoing etc. , is not stored. Only the starting state. To have this, 'key frames' need to be included, where the game-state is fully known. | 1 | Within Spring a replay is played as a stream of actions, as calculate within an engine. The state of the game, where units are, what actions are ongoing etc. , is not stored. Only the starting state ( also indirectly, as it is calculated) . To have this, 'key frames' need to be included, where the game-state is fully known. You could call them 'save-points', like a save, but lightweight. |
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| 3 | To create these frames you need to serialize the entire state, this can cause memory/CPU spikes and freezes. | 3 | To create these frames you need to serialize the entire state, this can cause memory/CPU spikes and freezes. |
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| 5 | To have a more fluent user experience the game and its engine-instance should not fully reset, just the state. | 5 | To have a more fluent user experience the game and its engine-instance should not fully reset, just the state. |
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| 7 | Point is that it hasn't been made. | 7 | Point is that it hasn't been made. |
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