iortcw 1.42 or 1.42a avidemo

[Tuomas]

It seems that avidemo isnt working on 1.42 or 1.42a when it should. Is there any solution for this? I wanna record some trickjumping demos and avidemo them! :p

[MAN-AT-ARMS]

Record your demo normally.

Then, playback your demo and use the /video <output name> to convert to AVI. (avi is uncompressed, so files get large)
Also you need to use base sound to record the AVI.

eg.
/set s_useopenal 0
/snd_restart
/demo <demoname>; video <aviname>;

Output files will be in the 'videos' folder

Hope this helps

[Tuomas]

Thank you!

[MAN-AT-ARMS]

Thanks...that's something I meant to go back and look at when I was swapping out the demo recording functions and totally forgot about it.

I've reimplemented the old cl_avidemo command (screenshot method) in case someone actually prefers that method for creating videos (but obviously still will not have sound). It will be available again in the next release.

[Tuomas]

Okay, thanks! I have another problem too. When I record the demo to video then the fps is max 18 and the demo playback is quite choppy for a video. Is there any way I could change the fps? I changed cl_aviframerate to 60, its 60 fps file but the ingame fps is still hanging at 18.

[MAN-AT-ARMS]

The output video is choppy? Or is it just choppy when converting to avi?

[Tuomas]

I got it solved. sv_fps was "20". I set it to 60 so the demo wasnt choppy anymore.

[Tuomas]

But, sorry for bothering :D. The game crashes in between map changes. Start RTCW -> spdevmap <some map> then again spdevmap <some map> -> crash. This happens only on the 1.42 version.

[MAN-AT-ARMS]

1.42 is the older version..there's no reason to use it anymore. It was replaced by 1.42a which is the newer version which fixed several issues.

[Tuomas]

Im using 1.42a

[MAN-AT-ARMS]

What platform? I'm not seeing any issue here...do you have a crashlog.txt you can paste here?

[Tuomas]

Win7 64 bit. It happens when I write /pmove_fixed 1 in console, then I spdevmap <some map> to change the map. And when I click the yellow arrow to move to the level, boom. Crashed, no errors, nothing.

[MAN-AT-ARMS]

Good catch...very strange one but good.

There was a mistake in the code as released by id, so it wasn't specific to iortcw...It's probably always been broken.
Anyway...It's fixed now.

Fix will be in next release