Recording / Playback

Quick guide on how to record and playback a game.

Recording a game can speed up your game development for game logic.

They would usually start off by using trough switches then adding credits and starting a game.

Any events after this to test any recorded sequence like clearing a target bank, draining your ball.

Testing modes and testing the complete game.

Recording

Recording files are saved in the user://recordings/recordname.record

Example game dir: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\BasicGameGodot\recordings

You can get to the app_data directory for the game using app_data bat file

Record Step by Step

You can enable a switch window from the inspector options when running to record switches from.

  • Enable record in the autoload/Machine.tscn godot inspector or direct in file
  • Run the game. Hold down Q,W,E,R (Activate Trough switches) and push start 1
  • You can release the trough switches
  • Activate all the trough switches again to end the ball.
  • ESC to close the game window
  • A playback filename will be logged to the output window

Playback

  • Enable playback in the autoload/Machine.tscn inspector
  • Add the filename in the inspector user://recordings/recordname.record
  • Run the game to playback the recorded events
  • Logs will display when finished

Tips / Notes

  • Records could also be loaded from the project directory res:// . Some files are not visible in the FileSystem but can still be accessed.
  • Rename and keep good records to use for automation res://recordings/drain_3_balls.record