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[blazer]

This is the support topic for the tutorial Cutting Demos with Media Manager Tool (ET Movie).  Please post here if you have any questions or feedback.

[-=Medic=-]

Thanks for the tutorial  



EDIT: Cr!TicaL hum is it you the one played at FAG server  

[blazer]

Yea that's me ... Yay you remember me ..

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Cr!TicaL, on 09 August 2011 - 07:36 PM, said:

Yea that's me ... Yay you remember me ..

ofc I remember you muaahahahahaha

also I remember your debate with nutwister about rate and maxpackets thing if I'm not wrong... but you were good that's all  

[blazer]

lol

[ferkel]

U said it works with Jaymod demos. Dont work for me :/

[hobbit]

I actually was surprised when hementioned it worked for other mods outside of etpro since i only thought it worked with etpro.

[SunLight]

as far as I know jaymod demos have some nonstandard things, I remember when I wanted to write a wolfcam for jaymod, for example the game events are all in a different order,
strange though... I would expect it to work with every mod, now I am curious to test it, pity that Hannes decided to write that library in bloody c# or whatever .net sh*t and I have to reboot to windoze.

If I find out some useful stuff I'll post it here

[SunLight]

@ferkel:
I have managed to cut a jaymod demo without problems... maybe if you give us more details about your problem we can help. Be sure that you can play the original demo before trying to play the edited one, maybe it's a jaymod/et version problem, or something else.

If compared to other mods demos I noticed that all the info about sprees is missing, probably because (as I mentioned before) in jaymod all the game messages are in a different order than the standard ET ones. So the demo can be cut, but you get no spree info unless someone (not me because I am the laziest person on earth) makes a jaymod version for it using Hannes' idtech3 api, now I see that in his website there is no download link anymore for that thing...

So, the problem is knowing where to cut it, not the cutting process itself, at least I had no problems in doing that.

[ferkel]

Oops,  i described my problem not enough.

My Problem is to find the sprees on jaymod demos. Etpro is no problem. So its not possible without the Hannes idtech3 api?

Anyway thanks for ur help

Edited by ferkel, 02 September 2011 - 06:17 AM.

[SunLight]

ferkel, on 02 September 2011 - 06:17 AM, said:

Oops,  i described my problem not enough.

My Problem is to find the sprees on jaymod demos. Etpro is no problem. So its not possible without the Hannes idtech3 api?

Anyway thanks for ur help

the idtech3 api is that decoder dll inside media manager, it's probably a different version than the one I downloaded some time ago when I first got the news on crossfire, the problem is that it's sort of undocumented, I 'played' with it a bit and I managed to write a little ugly console application to get the server info from a jaymod demo, but in order to get the frags, I need to extract all the 'obituary' messages from the events. And then it would be ugly and without gui...

The problem lies in the fact that this message with 'x was killed by y with weapon z'  (ev_obituary) in jaymod has a different index than standard ET, so the default function in the dll doesn't get it, because it thinks it's another event.

[Frated1]

Sorry to reawaken a old topic, but since this is the support topic...
Ok, so I've done the first step and I've clicked on my ET.exe. However, no demos appear. It loads everything in my Wolfenstei folder except the demos. Any ideas?
Thanks.

[SunLight]

Frated1, on 17 November 2011 - 10:10 PM, said:

Sorry to reawaken a old topic, but since this is the support topic...
Ok, so I've done the first step and I've clicked on my ET.exe. However, no demos appear. It loads everything in my Wolfenstei folder except the demos. Any ideas?
Thanks.

It's been a while since I last used that tool, and I can't check it from Linux, but I think you have to choose a folder where your demos are stored. Go to modname/demos

[Frated1]

Yeah, when I go there its completely blank.

[SunLight]

Frated1, on 18 November 2011 - 06:14 AM, said:

Yeah, when I go there its completely blank.

which mod are you using? which version of et? that tool is mainly for players who use ETPRO and et 2.60b, maybe your demos are not compatible? is the demo .dm_84 ?