[Feature Request] Internal recording of gameplay in the app without controls

[Thewisem]

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Name of the game:

Player platform:

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• A savegame next to the problem (if it is not at the beginning of the game)
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Describe the issue in detail and how to reproduce it:

It would be amazing to have an in built screen recorder which would record the gameplay and would help in creating gameplay videos

[fdelapena]

There is a "recording" gameplay feature implemented since #1096 (also #2301).

How to use:

From the Player command line documentation: https://easyrpg.org/player/manual/

To record, use some deterministic random seed. 123456789 is just an example, you can set any other integer number but use the same number when recording and reproducing. Using a specific number will make random actions to behave the same once reproducing it again:

easyrpg-player --seed 123456789 --record-input SOMEPATH

To reproduce:

easyrpg-player --seed 123456789 --replay-input SOMEPATH

This is not exactly a video recording output, however this should allow to record without requiring to control it.

You could also add --new-game to the command line if you want to skip the title scene, or load some savegame automatically with --load-game-id NN where NN is the save slot (1 to 15).

[Ghabry]

I'm pretty sure this is Android related. No way to set the command line.

[fdelapena]

These command line arguments are a good candidate for a global settings scene to implement this.

[Thewisem]

Yeah a way for android to implement this command line features.

[carstene1ns]

I honestly do not think this is a feasible feature for the player, since there are screen recorders for every platform around.

Setting the seed and such could be added to a small popup menu in the game selection screen though. This popup could also allow starting a save directly and toggle test-play mode as well. Maybe hide this behind some "enable advanced game settings" checkbox in global settings.