You can record and play back any Vortex®-based simulation by using the controls available on the Record and Playback tab.

Record and Playback is useful both to the instructor and to the student. The instructor can play back a student session, thereby providing the student valuable feedback on areas to improve and on areas where they already do well.

A recording does not allow restarting a simulation from a given point. To restart a simulation from a given point, see Key Frames.

Start new recording
Open existing recording
Save current recording to file
Stop playback; this sets the application mode to what it was before entering playback mode (the simulation is also restored to that point)
Loop the playback
Jump to start frame
Seek reverse
Play back; sets the application mode to Playback
Record
Seek forward
Jump to end frame
Scrub control
Current frame

Before you can use these controls you must have already loaded a content file from The Browser tab. Then you can use these controls to perform several actions:

Start recording during the simulation
Stop recording without interrupting the simulation
Save or load a recorded simulation to or from disk
Play back recording in a continuous loop
Pause simulation to play a recorded simulation
Leave playback and return to simulation

There are two things to keep in mind about recording: You can overwrite either a portion of or an entire recording session just as if you were using a tape machine. You cannot start a recording once a session is in progress.

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