Re: SoCS DOOM II?

Sturt Ison (tshison@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:16:08 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, rj wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Jedd Rashbrooke wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Roland John Turner wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sturt Ison wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it possible to capture a sequence in doom?
> > > > > I want to be able to then turn this sequence into an .avi that can be
> > > > > played in the yearbook.
> > > >
> > > > THAT is ambitous! (sp?)
> > > >
> > > > Some untidy hardware hacks spring to mind...
> > >
> > > Perhaps not. I was thinking of giving the idea of a walkthrough of B4/L4.
> > > That could be accomplished by starting up in frag mode, and then every
> > > few 'steps' dumping the screen. The resulting pcx's could then be turned
> > > into an avi.
> > >
> > > Does anyone want to attempt this for the yearbook? You do not have to be
> > > a final year student. (We are all freaked out on final year subjects :) )
> > >
> > > Cheers, Sturt
> > >
> > > Sturt Ison <tshison@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au> http://ftoomsh.socs.uts.edu.au/~sturt
> >
> > I'm not a final year student . . . but I did manage to find
> > time to read the readme.txt in the doom2 directory.
> >
> > Add "-record demoz" to the command line. If it's going to blow out
> > a bit in size, you can add the "-maxdemo <K>" commandline option to
> > increase the buffer.
>
> This records the moves made in the game and requires the doom engine for
> play back. What Sturt was asking for was something to record the screen
> images and convert them to an avi or the like. The idea of doing multiple
> screen shots will probably work but the game play will be a just a tadd
> slow and jerky. It will probably rival the games i had with someone in the
> US(or was it sweeden ?) with 1000ms ping times.
>
> rj.

I guess I should read my mail from the most recent first huh.

That's it on the nose. I need to give people a feel for building 4 in
SoCSBook.

Sturt.

Sturt Ison <tshison@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au> http://ftoomsh.socs.uts.edu.au/~sturt