csutcliff / wow-recorder

A desktop screen recorder application that records and saves videos of in-game World of Warcraft encounters, and provides a graphical user interface to view the replays. It is completely free, open source and contains no adverts.

Warcraft Recorder

A desktop screen recorder application that records and saves videos of in-game events, and provides a graphical user interface to view the replays.

Nothing magic happens here, the application watches the combat log file for events, records to disk and then plays back the recordings in the user interface.

Only 64 bit Windows (any modern version) and retail WoW are currently supported.

How to Use

1. Download and run the most recent installer (e.g WarcraftRecorder.Setup.2.6.0.exe) from the releases section.
2. Launch the application and fill out the settings page.
3. Pick one of the below options to enable combat logging.
   • Install the SimpleCombatLogger addon to automatically combat log.
   • Use MRT automatic combat logging in a similar fashion to SimpleCombatLogger.
   • Manually type /combatlog in-game every time you login or reload.

Optionally, test it works by clicking the test icon after you have completed the above steps.

An example of valid config can be found below.

Size Monitor

The configuration has a 'max storage' option. The app will never exceed this storage usage on disk. I suggest 100GB is a reasonable size for this setting.

This feature is inspired by car dash cam behaviour: it deletes the oldest video when the size limit is hit. You can mark a video to be saved by right clicking it, so that it won't be cleaned up by this mechanism.

Bug Reports & Suggestions

Please create an issue, I will get to it eventually. Bear in mind maintaining this is a hobby for me, so it may take me some time to comment. If you think you can improve something, feel free to submit a PR.

I've created a dedicated discord for this project, feel free to join here.

Motivation

This project is free and open source. It is built on the electron-react-boilerplate repository. It is released in the hope that it will be useful to other players.

Contributing

If you're interested in getting involved please drop me a message on discord and I can give you access to our development channel. Also see contributing docs.

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Warcraft Recorder

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.