[Dr. McKay]

[ANY] SMAC AutoDemo

v1.2.0

Description:
SourceMod Anti-Cheat is a great tool to make sure cheaters stay away from your servers. However, every so often someone will appeal their automatic ban and you have no proof of their actions. This plugin utilizes SourceTV to automatically record demos when a potential cheater is detected. Recorded demos are saved under addons/sourcemod/recordings.

The suspected cheater(s) and a timestamp will be displayed on automatic demos on games that support HUD text. Note: This information will also be displayed to anyone spectating via SourceTV.

If you have the bzip2 extension, demos will be compressed with bzip2 compression.

If you have the tEasyFTP plugin and smac_autodemo_ftp_upload is set to 1, demos will be uploaded to the FTP server specified in the "autodemo" configuration.

If you create a file named smac_recording.cfg under cfg/sourcemod, it will be executed when a recording starts.

Cvars:
smac_autodemo_version - plugin version
smac_autodemo_compression_level - level of bzip2 compression, from 1 to 9; set this to 0 to disable bzip2 compression; this only has an effect if the bzip2 extension is installed (defaults to 5)
smac_autodemo_ftp_upload - enables FTP uploading of demos; this only has an effect if the tEasyFTP plugin is installed (defaults to 0)
smac_autodemo_auto_update - enables automatic updating (has no effect if Updater is not installed) (defaults to 1)

Requirements:
Requires SourceMod Anti-Cheat.

Installation:
Put smac_autodemo.smx into /addons/sourcemod/plugins, and reboot your server or type "sm plugins load smac_autodemo" into your console or rcon.

Auto Update:
Install Updater. The plugin will be auto-updated according to your Updater settings. It'll work without Updater.

Changelog:

• v1.2.0 (4/15/13)
  • sourcemod/smac_recording.cfg is now executed when a demo recording starts
• v1.1.0 (2/15/13)
  • Suspected cheaters are now printed to chat on games that don't support HUD text
• v1.0.0 (12/28/12)
  • Initial release

Download Plugin (smac_autodemo.smx)
View Source (smac_autodemo.sp)

[ocwoody]

Nice idea! Will definitely give this a try!

[TnTSCS]

Great plugin - installing now - thanks Dr. McKay... btw, they need to bring that damn show back - I really enjoyed it, said it only lasted 5 seasons... okay, back on topic

[AeroAcrobat]

- will the recording stop if the person is banned or will it record until map end/change ?

[TnTSCS]

from the looks of the code, it will stop on player disconnect (whether banned or they just left), unless other clients are being suspected of cheating by SMAC, in which case it will log that client 1 left, but other clients are being recorded.

[nightrider]

Very cool idea.
Thank you Dr. McKay.

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by AeroAcrobat - will the recording stop if the person is banned or will it record until map end/change ?

TnTSCS is correct. It'll continue recording until all suspected players have left.

The recorded demos will have a timestamp in the bottom-right corner and at the top it will list all the players that are suspected of cheating.

[CuriousG]

Does this automatically setup the SourceTV part or do we still need to have the necessary

tv_enable 1
tv_port 27020
tv_name "Source TV"
etc...

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by CuriousG Does this automatically setup the SourceTV part or do we still need to have the necessary tv_enable 1 tv_port 27020 tv_name "Source TV" etc...

This will automatically enable SourceTV. While this plugin is running, tv_enable is locked to 1 and tv_autorecord is locked to 0. If you wish, you may change the SourceTV maxplayers cvar to 0 to disable spectating and you may change the tv_name cvar to change the SourceTV bot's name.

[CuriousG]

L 12/29/2012 - 07:48:59: [smac_autodemo.smx] WARNING: SourceTV bot not present. AutoDemos cannot be recorded until the SourceTV bot joins (usually next mapchange)

SourceTV does show up on spectator and I put these lines in my sourcemod.cfg
tv_maxclients 2
tv_delay 0

I can type tv_record <name> and it does record. When I try to playback from the client I just get 3 viewports and I can't change any views. When I connect to the SourceTV port to spectate I can't go in free mode and can only change camera views from the fixed player in the director mode. Pressing ALT does nothing. These questions are probably all basic SourceTV related.