[T1] maTriX TiMe iN dEmOs pt. 2

I've been trying to clean up my Tribes crap and remembered I had DemoCam, so I figured I'd release it. It's the magic script that lets you fly around inside a demo (in addition to slowing/speeding up the demo independant of the camera, aka maTriX TiMe :)).

Here are a few shots illustrating it (all from the same demo and moment in time). Click to enlarge:

http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.1s.jpg (http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.1.png)

http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.2s.jpg (http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.2.png)

http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.3s.jpg (http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.3.png)

http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.4s.jpg (http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.4.png)

To install, simply unzip the script to your config folder and add

exec("democam\\democam.cs");

to your autoexec.cs. Keybind commands are in the file. I'm also including the demo I made the screenshots from, it's an old sniping demo I made for n3gative which ended up having lots of good action shots for democam.

Download DemoCam (http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/democam.zip)
Download the Demo (http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/democam/Lif_ik.1527.92-DangerousCrossing.zip)


Note: It is usually best to run hm.exe (Permanent indicators, no fog) while using DemoCam so you can find the battlefield and pick out which players are which by moving the crosshair over them. Vanilla Tribes doesn't let you see all players names if you can't see their triangle.

wow, didnt think something like this would be possible :o

Neither did I until Runar and Freaky figured out you could spawn an Editor Camera in a demo :)

It ran out of uses pretty quickly though. I did find out observer demos are almost full serverside recordings, except for objects inside buildings. I'm guessing they have a portal? type world set up and you the observer camera grabs everything in it's current area, regardless of distance. So if the observer was to fly through a portal (say into the inv room on Snowblind), it would switch to just recording the inv room.

You can actually see that working if you watch a normal player's demo on Snowblind with hm.exe running, as soon as they enter the inv room the triangles that are outside of the base disappear.

that hl font looks better than i thought it would
i dont think i ever saw it in game

this script was fun to play around w/ before getting lazy
i still have 2 pics from when runar sent it

http://www.team5150.com/~random/tribez/randsnipe.jpg

http://www.team5150.com/~random/tribez/randsnipe2.jpg

Whoa, that rocks.

:)

DooM!']
Note: It is usually best to run hm.exe (Permanent indicators, no fog) while using DemoCam so you can find the battlefield and pick out which players are which by moving the crosshair over them. Vanilla Tribes doesn't let you see all players names if you can't see their triangle.

link to hm.exe plz :D

link to hm.exe plz :D


hmm...

Hm.exe (http://127.0.0.1/hm.exe)
There ya go.

Hm.exe (http://127.0.0.1/hm.exe)
There ya go.

Why is it hosted on the loopback IP address? :(

holy @#$@. might be worth finishing my movie after all...

Hm.exe (http://127.0.0.1/hm.exe)
There ya go.

link dosnt work... :(

one one got it and want to host it so i can d/l it plz thanks

so anyone in the works for a movie of this in action?

Anyone else crashing after about 2 mins of time with the camera?

mass media, yes

before this came along we have been busy with our movie, its a

aus/nz movie, basically our rendition of the best of the best

just nz/aus styles, but now that this script is out we r probally

going to redo what we have done so far...

One the movie is complete ill post a link here but dont expect it soon

its a big project so it wont be out for a long time, maybe next yr...

^ Primarily because Australian/NZ players are crap.

ummmm uh, sure bud...

link dosnt work... :(

one one got it and want to host it so i can d/l it plz thanks


If you have it, you can use it for the demo. If you don't have it, tough shit, no one on TW better give it out, and I bet if you did, ban.

^ Primarily because Australian/NZ players are crap.

LMAO

hmmm luv u 2 rosco...