Correct ping during demo playback

Chruker · Post by **Chruker** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:31 am

Hi

I was wondering if the ETPro team could give any hints to how etpro displays the correct ping during demo playback. Vanilla ET shows a maxed out ping, although the snapflags are there.

Also can you tell me if there are any commands that restarts a demo, just like map_restart restarts the map. Of cause I could do 'demo chruker1' again and again - but are there something faster?

Chruker · Post by **Chruker** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:02 am

Ok, it seems that the snap->ping used to draw the lagometer, contains numbers between 20000-100000+ - they are obviously not pings, and they don't vary much during a demo.

Does etpro store the ping's in another structure, and then use those during playback? Or do you 'patch' the engine?

Post by **bani** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:35 pm

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        // add this snapshot's info
-       lagometer.snapshotSamples&#91; lagometer.snapshotCount & &#40; LAG_SAMPLES - 1&#41; &#93; = snap->ping;
+       if &#40;cg.demoPlayback&#41; &#123;
+               static int lasttime = 0;
+               // rain - #67 - display snapshot time delta instead of ping when
+               // playing a demo, since I can't think of any way to get the
+               // real ping
+               lagometer.snapshotSamples&#91;lagometer.snapshotCount & &#40;LAG_SAMPLES - 1&#41;&#93; = snap->serverTime - lasttime;
+               lasttime = snap->serverTime;
+       &#125; else
+               lagometer.snapshotSamples&#91; lagometer.snapshotCount & &#40; LAG_SAMPLES - 1&#41; &#93; = snap->ping;
+

Pedro · Post by **Pedro** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:52 pm

Pointers FTW!

Pedro · Post by **Pedro** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:53 pm

Pointers FTW!