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This was all done in about 4 hours of crunch. I was just in the groove. Recording is pretty much completely working. You can record things in realtime, you can pass that data onto a playback object (haven't written that part yet but I've written the in-between), and you can save recordings to a file, either as a binary file (efficient) or as an XML file (definitely not). There's more I might want to do with the encoding in the future, namely some compression. Like if a value hasn't changed in a while, we don't need to store it every tick. I believe this is called "temporal compression." The XML data actually compresses incredibly well (I guess I shouldn't be surprised; the data is 90% the word "Property"). That might be worth looking into. Anyway, playback coming soon.
ActionRecorder
ActionRecorder is a demo playback system I wrote for Unity. The initial reasoning for this project was to suit my needs for a small game I tinkered with involving past copies of yourself interacting in a world. Some people have expressed interest in the code I used, so I decided to rewrite my original code to be more advanced, configurable, and easy to set up.
How To Use
Note: This project was built for use with Unity 2020.3.14. Not sure how it works on other versions. I would imagine it has no issue working elsewhere, but I am not sure.
To install, download the DLL from the releases page (or see Building From Source). Then drag the DLL into the Assets folder of your project and let it recompile. That's it for installation, simple right?
Binaries Mirror: https://git.thatonenerd.net/That-One-Nerd/ActionRecorder/releases
Building From Source
This project targets .NET Standard 2.0, which apparently means it can target any Unity version 2018.1 or higher.
- You'll need Visual Studio with the Unity/VS Tools installed.
- You will also need your own copy of the
UnityEngine.dllfile.- You can find it at
PATH_TO_YOUR_EDITOR/Data/Managed/UnityEngine.dll, where the path to your editor is the folder with the Unity executable. - Once this source code is cloned or otherwise downloaded, place the DLL file in the root of the project, along with the
ActionRecorder.csprojfile.
- You can find it at
With all prerequisites, just build the project or solution. It should "just work" with no errors or warnings. A DLL will be generated in either bin/Debug or bin/Release depending on what configuration you set it to. Drag the DLL into the project as you would with a DLL found in the releases page, and have at it.