Your favorite battles on your shelf. Record a video stream.
by Killer77 · in ThinkTanks · 01/09/2004 (1:49 pm) · 6 replies
Yeah, its possible to record video stream in thinktanks. To do it on Mac:
1. Open Terminal (or X11 if u have one)
2. Type the full path.... hmm heres an example:
/Users/xxxxx/Games/TT/ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -jSave filename.txt
and run it. (This is just an example. Your path is different i think) It will run the usual
game. When u exit it, you will find a file "filename.txt"
in ThinkTanks.app/Contents/Recources/ folder. -jSave stands for recording.
If you wanna watch your record type:
/Users/xxxxx/Games/TT/ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -jPlay filename.txt
with -jPlay. Youll see full record from opening your TT window till exit.
It is different on pc but i dont want to spend time for that, figure it out by
yourself.
Enjoy!
1. Open Terminal (or X11 if u have one)
2. Type the full path.... hmm heres an example:
/Users/xxxxx/Games/TT/ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -jSave filename.txt
and run it. (This is just an example. Your path is different i think) It will run the usual
game. When u exit it, you will find a file "filename.txt"
in ThinkTanks.app/Contents/Recources/ folder. -jSave stands for recording.
If you wanna watch your record type:
/Users/xxxxx/Games/TT/ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -jPlay filename.txt
with -jPlay. Youll see full record from opening your TT window till exit.
It is different on pc but i dont want to spend time for that, figure it out by
yourself.
Enjoy!
#2
Devestator
03/13/2004 (6:08 pm)
Do me a favor brave tree. MAKE IT SO WE CAN DO IT IN GAME! shift r for exampleDevestator
#3
03/13/2004 (6:38 pm)
Wat do u mean "record a video stream"? do u take the action and tape it or something?
#4
03/14/2004 (3:20 am)
@ mudda if you set it up right you can record and play back your sessions of tt. there is a way for pc and mac unfortunately if you want to do it for the pc the instructions are on a ptt thread , i cant remember how to do it , maybe someone else can!
#5
Do I need a hex editor to access the file in the ThinkTanks OSX document?
I had mine in full screen and when playing back I had to use option-cmd-esc to interupt it.
I saw a lot of dialog in the playback that I missed during the game.
One of the playbacks was at 1.5X speed.
If there was some way to access and edit, we could make a highlight reel.
03/14/2004 (5:40 am)
Cool, how did you know how big it was 77 ?Do I need a hex editor to access the file in the ThinkTanks OSX document?
I had mine in full screen and when playing back I had to use option-cmd-esc to interupt it.
I saw a lot of dialog in the playback that I missed during the game.
One of the playbacks was at 1.5X speed.
If there was some way to access and edit, we could make a highlight reel.
#6
Do any of you know how I could then play this recording on the server and clients at the start of a game?
Best wishes, Ryan
03/16/2004 (8:49 am)
Hello, I would like to create an attract sequence that will play at the start of my game. It seems the best way to do this would be to use the demo recording capability built in torque.Do any of you know how I could then play this recording on the server and clients at the start of a game?
Best wishes, Ryan
Killer77
- I recorded 4 games and got file about 5.9 Mb. Large enough....
- Forgot to tell: if you use X11 you have to type full path like in my previous post.
Using Terminal (from TT folder) you can type this:
./ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -jSave filename.txt
It doent work in X11.
- Apparently, for PC one may use the same command line as for dedicated server, but without
"-deicated" etc:
(from TT folder) ThinkTanks -jSave filename.txt
ThinkTanks -jPlay filename.txt