Is there a program (like mediaplayer) to run the movies outside cs/hl? Could do you convert them to e.g. mpg?
Probably - but then they wouldn't be interactive.
Here is one.
http://www.planetquake3.net/seismovision/ (http://www.planetquake3.net/seismovision/)
Isn't that just another demo player like Geekboys?
QuoteIsn't that just another demo player like Geekboys?
Looks that way ... if I am lucky it will not crash my PC as Geekplayer does. :D
there are ways of converting demos so that they are .mpg files, i viewd some videos a while ago, i think i got them from oldie. they were cool.
Yes, Silly did a whole loada stuff on this not so long ago. I think he eventualy found a proggie, ask him! =)
I made one of those videos. I have nowhere to host it (~18Mb) but can dcc it in irc or something if you're interested. It's in wmv format because at the time windows movie maker was the only way I had of adding audio to my avi.
The process of converting demo to avi/mpeg/whatever isnt done in only one step unfortunately. (Step 3 isnt exactly necessary, especially with faster pc's but can help avoid some jitters)
- record your demo files and make sure you have lots of space on your HDD!
- open up halflife and go to the console
- timedemo demoname
- let the demo play through so that it's loaded into memory and then
- playdemo demoname for first person demos or viewdemo demoname for hltv ones
- when the demo gets to the part you want to make into a movie type startmovie moviename where fps indicated how many frames per second you want it to do (this never quite works as I expect it to and is an optional switch.)
- the demo will tick by a lot slower now as it outputs all the frames
- once the bit you want to keep is over type endmovie
- now you will have 100's of .bmp screenshots in your halflive folder named "moviename_0000.bmp" and you need a movie compiler to change those into an avi.
Bear in mind that the bmp files require a LOT of space. 10 seconds of movie at 30fps will create 300 bmp files. A 1024x768 bmp file is approx 2.25Mb so that requires about 700Mb of hdd space. When converting to a movie use whatever processing you like. I convert all the 1024 bmp files into 640x480 or 320x240 jpeg's using irfanview batch conversion and then usually the mpeg v4.2 codec when creating my avi files.
www.doom9.org (http://www.doom9.org) has loads of video editing tools. virtualdub is my favourite editor. Used to have something else for the jpeg sequence --> avi though but I cant remember what it was called