.rec file

.rec files

The rec files are the files recorded by the VCMP server using the plugin-npc04relxx. Normally, the files are created by recording a player's action. They then can be used by the npc scripts for playback so that the npcs reproduce exactly the same actions. Only rec files in the npscripts/recordings directory can be accessed by the npc scripts, while the rec files created normally lie in a folder also named 'recordings' in the server directory.

General Structure

The .rec file format consists of a header, followed by a non-separated sequence of data blocks. Every data block completely describes the player state at a specific moment, and so the NPC's actions are stored fluently. The data is stored as bytes in little endian order. Single data values can be 1, 2 or 4 bytes long, and so either are bytes, shorts, integers or floats in IEEE-754 format. ).

HEADER[8]DATABLOCK[76]DATABLOCK[76]... ( for on foot recordings, datablock size is 76 in v.1.3 )

File Header

The .rec file header got the same structure for both vehicle and on-foot recordings. It is 8 bytes long, where the first 4 bytes are an integer. It is 1000 for recordings created by the first version (April 2022) of the program, whereas in release v1.4 it is 1001. The other 4 bytes represent an integer which is 1 for on foot recordings and 2 for vehicle recordings.

Offset*	type	meaning
0-3	integer	File identifier, always e9 03 00 00
4-7	integer	1 for onfoot recordings, 2 for vehicle recordings

[*]Offset is relative to the beginning of the file.

Data blocks

On-foot data

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Offset*	type	meaning
0-3	unsigned integer	time in ms when to apply this block's data
4-7	unsigned integer	the players keys
8-11	float	player's position x co-ordinate
12-15	float	player's position y co-ordinate
16-19	float	player's position z co-ordinate
20-23	float	player's Angle
24	unsigned char	Health
25	unsigned char	Armour
26	unsigned char	Weapon
27	bool	IsCrouching
28-31	float	player's speed x co-ordinate
32-35	float	player's speed y co-ordinate
36-39	float	player's speed z co-ordinate
37	bool	IsAiming
38-41	float	player's aim direction x co-ordinate
42-45	float	player's aim direction y co-ordinate
46-49	float	player's aim direction z co-ordinate
50-53	float	player's aim position x co-ordinate
54- 57	float	player's aim position y co-ordinate
58 -61	float	player's aim position z co-ordinate
62 (new)	bool	IsReloading
63-64 (new)	unsigned short	ammo

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