Hey Guys!
I want my players to be able to record a video from my game. Is there a way to do this using something like the matinee record function? This will be from inside a packaged game. Not from the engine interface.
you can record within matinee, the problem is that it needs much power and stores incredible high amounts of data (a HD video is about 1-5 gb/ 10 seconds in my cases) so i think it would be easier to somehow record what the player is / was doing and replay this in the actual scene if you want to watch this “movie” in game.
Thats the way from GTA IV and V and some other games with capture function.
As siebencorgie pointed out, the best way would be to try and record the actions and results of what happens in the game and then replay that at a later stage. Quake 2 worked like this.
Another option would be to try and integrate some video capture library to record that for you … that would undoubtedly require C++ coding and engine changes. You might want to look at Twitch APIs or something similar … but once again that will require C++ code and engine changes.
You could maybe look at this: Cross Platform Video Capture Library