"WriteMIDI" command

[Ilya_Efimov]

Hello! Well, I'm not sure that it was discussed before, but how to use "writemidi" command properly? It's not as simple as it is in Zandronum. In Zandronum you should just set some music track to play, then use "writemidi" command and write a filename with .mid at the end. After that a MIDI track is saved inside Zandronum directory. But when trying to use this command in GZDoom it doesn't save the MIDI track in a MIDI format, it doesn't even open and play it. In older versions of GZDoom this command acted the same as it is in Zandronum, but later this command was "improved" somehow. Can you, please, tell me, what do I do wrong?

[Graf Zahl]

It looks lke there's a small bug in there. The command was supposed to be 'writemidi musicname filename' but it always uses the musicname as file name as well, so if you want to write d_runnin you have to say "writemidi d_runnin blah" but the file will be named 'd_runnin'. That's why writing the playing track with 'writemidi * filename' won't work, because * is not a valid file name to write to.

I think it says a lot that in the 4 years this bug existed it has not been reported.

[Rachael]

I think it says a lot that in the 4 years this bug existed it has not been reported.

Don't be deceived. It's true that it could say something about the usefulness of the command, but it equally could also be true that it may have something to do with how well known the command is or how well documented it is.