[Feature Request] Star/Stop Recording Functions

[byjokese]

A great idea would be to create a couple of functions for starting and stopping the recording. This way we can skip some moments of the missions that are not interesting, like people joining to an event, it may take 10-20mins for some big missions and co-op missions between clans to get started.

So having this possibility can be quite interesting. And should not be very complicated to implement over what is already done.

EDIT: I haven't seen them, maybe are already planned or implemented.

[alexcroox]

Thanks for the suggestion! You'll be pleased to hear this is already in master/the version you are running. Just set this variable on the server in admin console or as part of your mission framework: aar_main_logEvents = false

Then set it back to true when you are ready to continue logging events.

[byjokese]

each time is set to true it will create a new record on the DB, right? It Won't add them to the previous session, will it?

[alexcroox]

It won't create a new mission, it will simply pause or resume the logging of events to the same mission entry

[byjokese]

So, there's no way for creating a new entry manually, unless restarting the mission. Copy.

What our group does normally are persistent missions, so we don't restart the server/mission. And we wanted to record only the mission itself, not the time in between missions. But even pausing it will create a quite long log of events as it can take a couple of weeks (6-7 missions until we restart).

Thanks for the info.

[alexcroox]

Ah makes sense, this is something I might add to the rewrite (currently going on in a different branch)

[byjokese]

As you consider, it can be interesting.

Thanks for all.

[alexcroox]

I'm still interested in doing this and had a cursory look this evening, however it turned out to be a lot more complicated than I initially thought. We would have to loop through every unit and remove all their existing R3 variables before re-initialising. Not impossible, just time consuming to implement.