Posted by el vagrant on June 17, 2000 at 23:03:55:
In reply to: Re: a demo scene recorder? posted by odjo on June 17, 2000 at 14:28:52:
el Ojo..
(all seeing Eye?)
ok, so we'll be able to See
our own demo scenes soon?
: rec_tr.com is the TR_Recorder. It records TR Playing gamelog from the start
: till you quit TR. A TR_Replayer hopefully reruns TR_Recorder gamelog. If
: gamelog splicing/editing know-how is established, you'll be able to show your
: whole gameplay till game completion to your audience.
: I do suspect that demo scene data was captured from usual gameplay with
: built-in gamerecorder of tomb.exe ( of course, not the published version,
: but the development version )string:
:
: 000b4290 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 45 58 49 54 00 00 ..........EXIT..
: 000b42a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 4c ..............PL
: 000b42b0 41 59 42 41 43 4b 20 44 45 4d 4f 00 00 00 00 00 AYBACK DEMO.....
: 000b42c0 00 00 52 45 43 4f 52 44 20 44 45 4d 4f 00 00 00 ..RECORD DEMO...
: 000b42d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 4c 41 59 20 46 4d 56 00 00 ......PLAY FMV..
: 000b42e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4c 45 56 45 4c 20 ..........LEVEL
: 000b42f0 43 4f 4d 50 4c 45 54 45 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 COMPLETE........
:
: "PLAYBACK DEMO"? "RECORD DEMO"? "PLAY FMV"? Have you seen these words
: in your gameplay?
I wish!
: Perhaps the recorder subroutine itself was erased from the published version.
: Or by any chance it is still there, but never called? Some occult key
: combination activates the recorder?? ( i doubt it :) )
so do I, there isn't even a screensaver in TR1; they're not
about to give away anything for free...
: TR levels other than two levels equipped with demo have no demo scene data.
: In TR1, if you rename some level as LEVEL2.PHD and let the demo start, the
: game crashes as the renamed level has no demo data in it.
wouldn't it crash because the "world" co-ordinates, textures don't
make any sense,compared to the original recording?
I guess a "cut scene" contains absolutely nothing of value
towards a demo recorder?
:
: rec_tr.com is a very tiny program.
: I'll soon email the rec_tr.com with source and its readme will explain how
: to make demo scenes from rec_tr.com gamelog. then i'll upload somewhere the
: TR_Recorder Kit.
Great! I'll be able to get a lively snomobile demo
for my level.
I've started back on it again.
I'm going to get Lara off that sled and try to learn
(and use) as many TR1 platform jumping/switch puzzles as I can.
I figure that RTV was about 1/3 done.thanks for the reply &
success to you, Kevin