How to make easier to see the movie of an entire game.

[Knaust]

Here an idea for BTS to make easier to see the movie of an entire game.

Players must save their movie files in separate directories, i.e. C:/Programs/CMBO/PBEM/Chupacabra/Riesberg01 refers to Turn01 of the Riesberg scenario you are playing with Chupacabra.

In the Main Screen of CMBO there will be a See Movie button.

When you click the See Movie button the program starts the See Movie routine.

A panel will ask you for:

- Movie directory (C:/Programs/CMBO/PBEM/Chupacabra/)

- Scenario name (Riesberg)

- Movie start turn (03, if you wish to see your movie starting from Turn03)

- Movie end turn (15, if you wish to end your movie at Turn15)

- Pbem password

Afetr you click OK, the See Movie routine starts loading

C:/Programs/CMBO/PBEM/Chupacabra/Riesberg03 without asking for password.

You see the Turn03 movie as many times as you wish; when you’re enough you click the DONE button as usually.

The See Movie routine, instead of saving a return pbem file, starts loading next turn (C:/Programs/CMBO/PBEM/Chupacabra/Riesberg04) without asking for password, and so on until you reach Turn15 or you click the Alt-Q or Alt-A buttons as usually.

If this patch may be easily implemented, I think it would be great.

Moreover loading of successive turns after the first might be faster, if the routine doesn’t load redundant data. In fact every pbem movie file after the first contains redundancy such as map data and OrderofBattle data, which are likely to be the bulk of the file.