Quake tutorial: How to make a video from your demos

Since Quake Live is after the corner the hype got to me, so I started to look for Quake videos, and how I have lots of Quake 3 demos from the old days when I was playing  I started to make my own video. I’m not the best player out there but there are some cool moves in all these demos. I decided to make a small tutorial for all of you who were struck by “the hype” or are just good at quake and finally decided to show the world. Till now all the Quake 3 console commands work in Quake Live too, so you probably can make a Quake Live video using this tutorial but it is mainly designed for Quake 3 Arena. I assume you are familiar with Q 3 console commands and cfg files.

Here are the steps you should follow:

• first of all make some demos. I usually record all my games, you never know when you’ll do a cool move. To record a demo you have to enter this 2 commands: “g_syncronousClients 1″ and “record demoname”. demoname should be an intuitive unique name. To stop a demo you type “stoprecord”. You should bind these commands

bind F1 “g_syncronousClients 1;record”
bind F2 “stoprecord; g_syncronousClients 0″ Read more