Customiseable Demo Loop

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by Siggi » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:38 pm

Oh, I was wondering about that.
Now what Graf was saying makes more sense. This is very usefull.

by randi » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:21 pm

Yeah, I should probably change that to use the IWAD's name instead of just Doom.

BTW, Autoload and Autoexec are different. There's an Autoexec section that lists console scripts to execute when you play that game. The Autoload section you have to add to the ini yourself, and that defines additional PWADs to load with that IWAD.

by Graf Zahl » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:09 pm

Doom is Doom. Sorry.

by Siggi » Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:26 pm

I guess that does work.

Is there anyway to make the autoload thing different for each Doom wad?
Or is it only limited to
[Doom.AutoExec]
[Heretic.AutoExec]
[Hexen.AutoExec]
[Strife.AutoExec]

by Graf Zahl » Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:10 pm

Put them in the autoload section of the .ini file and you have what you want.

by Siggi » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:41 pm

True, although the current loop only plays demos that are in a loaded wad file.
I'm suggesting that external demos are used (ie not in a wad file, but the ZDoom root directory)

I just tested this with ZDoom: recorded a demo in map01, saved it as demo1.lmp. Then ran Zdoom to see if it would play. It did not, I've assumed it will only play demos that are in loaded wad files or when zdoom if executed with -playdemo.

by Graf Zahl » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:34 pm

You can already do that. The demo loop is executed normall, just the demos aren't played.

by Siggi » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:27 pm

I suggested this largely because there is no backwards compatability.
Being able to define your own demo loop through a config file will make it possible to just record demos that replace the old uncompatable demos with new working ones without making changes to the wad file.

by Graf Zahl » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:22 pm

And that's why it is unlikely that any work will be invested here.

Customiseable Demo Loop

by Siggi » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:18 pm

Currently, ZDoom doesn't play any demos in the demo loops from the origianl IWADS, and understandably so.

So I figured - If it were possible to create a custom demo loop through the config file that is wad specific.
This would allow ZDoom to play a demo loop without you having to add demo lumps to a wad and including it when you start ZDoom. The idea being to make it easier to record demos and get them to run in the loop that would normally happen when Doom starts, but doesn't happen because the original demos are for an older version.

an entry similar to this in the config file.

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[Demo."wad file name here"]
Looptype = "play through once, repeat, random repeat"
Demo[1]= "file name"
Demo[2]=..
Demo[3]=
Demo ..etc
Backwards Demo compatability would be nice, but I don't expect that to happpen.......... ever.

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