MOD REQUEST: Tracking, Remembering, and Recalling Progress

[LittleBitMore]

What is this mod idea? This is a mod idea I've been wanting for a long time: a mod that lets you return and watch your spacecraft do their things, so you can rememeber your most cinematic or most nostalgic missions in a save. I imagine it would work much like Replay Mod works for Minecraft. I imagine it to be one of two ways, depending on some variables and how much coding the author wants to do:

More difficult method: If the file sizes required for the recordings are surprisingly small, then I'd like the mod to track EVERYTHING to the point where you can return and watch as if it were a YouTube video, with time controls that act as time warp both forwards and backwards in time. Explosions, particles, animations, and crewmates are all recorded in real time. You'd be able to toggle map mode and normal mode, and follow any craft at any time. This would be PERFECT for YouTube videos. I do understand how intensive this would be and how everything would need to go absolutely perfectly for this method to be remotely possible, which is why I proposed a cheaper and easier yet less awesome version below.

Easier method: However, if file sizes for the recordings are large, a more economic way of doing it would be restricting the replays to Map Mode only, and watching from there. This way you can determine the base facts about your mission, although lacking the cinematic shots. As you are stuck in map mode, you cannot watch any craft do any delicate operations, and so some things may be obscure when seen from the map, but this would still be satisfactory for me if executed well.

Further details: I'd imagine this mod could track everything the in-game events tracker does, like when parts collide or kerbals are killed, and put those on a timeline of some sort for you to explore and recall back to. You could scroll through and find when Jebediah died, and remember how he died. This would be especially useful for mission reports, YouTube videos, and other similar content where you might forget or forget to record some parts, and never be able to figure out what happened at that point ever again. Plus this would mean unlimited cinematic shots for YouTube videos or images, meaning you can record YouTube videos without worrying about things like ugly shots or the HUD being in the way of your scenic Interstellar-esque docking scene.

Are there any mods like this? If not, can someone please attempt to make this for me? It'd mean a great deal to me.

[goldenpsp]

6 hours ago, LittleBitMore said:

Are there any mods like this? If not, can someone please attempt to make this for me? It'd mean a great deal to me.

This is how new modders are born.  You have something you wish you had, and then make it.

You might get lucky that a modder is bored enough they want to just create something.  But generally modders create things that "they" wanted in the game.  Very rarely I've found someone who just loves to code so much they will volunteer time to mod for someone else.

That being said there are tons of game recording options.  They won't track the in game tags you are looking for, but they can easily record your game sessions for later viewing. 

[Caerfinon]

There is this mod; 

It records screenshots of your activities and lots of logs about what is happening in the missions. Haven't tried it with 1.11 yet.

[LittleBitMore]

On 12/21/2020 at 6:57 AM, Caerfinon said:

There is this mod

I'll check it out, thanks