Replays

I've noticed that for a lot of things where GetLocalPlayer() is used, the replay will display things from the point of view of the player who saved the replay, not the selected player. Is there anyway to fix this?

I've heard people talking about adding meta data to replays. What is this for, and how do I do it? Which data is saved automatically be the replay, and which things would I have to add through triggers?

there was a thread just recently, and afaik it said that you can't get the player from whom's point of view the replay is being watched.

fix map, dont use local player, this is possible to ajust data without local player.

For display Texts, yes we can use use the native function DisplayTextToPlayer, but i think the issue is also for all things that don't affect the game play, like locally texttags, effects, and so one, and for them you can't avoid the use of GetLocalPlayer().
But maybe the issue is only with texts, didn't test it.

@Storyyeller :
http://www.wc3c.net/showpost.php?p=1031574&postcount=22

Is there anyway to change the visibility of a texttag without it?

AFAIK, no.
But because of the limit of 99 textags per player, instead of play with the visibility for each player, create them locally for the player that you want, it's 100 % safe, without any desynch.

Storyyeller
You can add replay detect function and additional check for textags, when run as replay game will act in other way (show all text tag to everyone (not local player)) show text to everyone and soo one, this is ok.

How do you create a text-tag locally, then (without using GetLocalPlayer())? As far as I can tell, it's always created for all players.

IsReplay must be a custom function which return if it's an replay or not, we have resources about it here.

@Diod : That's clever.

EDIT : Hmm wait it's not enough, in replay mode they will be undesired things showed.

Also, wouldn't the replay detection use up a pause?

Pandanmine's version use it but i think Strilanc or someone else had submit an other one in the same thread, read it to be sure.

there is no problems with pause...

Strilanc not posted his system as i know.

There is a limit of 3 pause per player in multiplayer game.
Personally i would deactivate the pause during a multiplayer game, but maybe some people think have "only" 2 pauses is not enough ...

Hmm i was pretty sure about that, maybe it was in an other thread.

EDIT : That was here :

http://www.wc3c.net/showpost.php?p=1...&postcount=140

You're using GetLocalPlayer().

Nevermind, I think I may have misunderstood your original post.

you can trigger pause if you like soo, such pause will be on your full control (pause game native unlimited)

you will need local player anyway, but you can undo its usage in replay with IsReplay() function