how to make pak files?? sorry!

2004-12-23 02:08:56 am

everyone else seems to know but i dont Grin

i got an episode 1 run but i wanna get them all into a pak file instead of having each map played separately, simply chuck em all together.

demtool sounds good but i have no idea what im doing Grin

can someone help me out?

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Radix

2004-12-23 02:10:46 am

I'm addicted to games

Use Dzip

sshplur

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sshplur: 2004-12-23 02:22:26 am

2004-12-23 02:18:44 am

i just figured it out.

thanks!

sshplur

2004-12-23 07:16:54 am

another things that keeps me boggled, i looked at a few marathons and it makes sense they are cuz qstats carries over the recorded time when you continue w/o restarting a map.

but i gave it a goe, replayed it, and it just played the level i told it to record and displayed the others only in text when you pick up items. do i have to add the other levels as well in the command or something??

M0rf4n$

2004-12-23 08:59:44 am

Can you explain that a little clearer, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

i) What are you trying to achieve?
ii) What marathon did you record, i.e. what levels?
iii) What commands did you use?
iv) What EXACTLY do you see when you try to play it back?

Mandel

2004-12-23 09:38:11 am

Mumma

It sounds to me like you're experiencing the multi-level demo bug. It happens for everyone, but I don't know the explanation... You only see the first level you recorded, the others just rush past.

However, there is a solution. Included in the download for QdQstats is a zip called compile. You have to use these programs on your marathon demo before you can replay them again. The sweet thing about it is that compile also automatically makes a pak file from the marathon.

Extract everything from the compile.zip into a new directory
Put a copy of demtool in the same directory
Copy your demo to the directory as well
Start a dos prompt and cd yourself to the above directory
compile demo.dem pak0.pak - remember, you have to give two arguments, a demo name and a pak name

Between 4 and 5 you could say demtool -g demo.dem if you want to get rid of grenade counters. I've been so bold as to put "demtool -g %1" in compile.bat, before the "mkdir tmp" line, but that's optional.

Now, there's your marathon in a pak, ready to be played. The later demos will play automatically each one after the other, after you just manually start playing the first demo.

It sounds to me like you're experiencing the multi-level demo bug. It happens for everyone, but I don't know the explanation... You only see the first level you recorded, the others just rush past.

However, there is a solution. Included in the download for QdQstats is a zip called compile. You have to use these programs on your marathon demo before you can replay them again. The sweet thing about it is that compile also automatically makes a pak file from the marathon.
[list][*]Extract everything from the compile.zip into a new directory
[*]Put a copy of demtool in the same directory
[*]Copy your demo to the directory as well
[*]Start a dos prompt and cd yourself to the above directory
[*]compile demo.dem pak0.pak - remember, you have to give two arguments, a demo name and a pak name[/list]
Between 4 and 5 you could say demtool -g demo.dem if you want to get rid of grenade counters. I've been so bold as to put "demtool -g %1" in compile.bat, before the "mkdir tmp" line, but that's optional.

Now, there's your marathon in a pak, ready to be played. The later demos will play automatically each one after the other, after you just manually start playing the first demo.

sshplur

2004-12-23 10:09:47 am

ur a legend, mandel!

to clarify for morfans basically it's this, now stay with me on this;

i recorded a marathon via 'record demo e1m1'

ran through episode 1

replayed it, but only e1m1 is played

the other maps are only displayed in text form - loading, picking up items - 'rushed'
e.g) loading the necropilis - e1m3 (or something), with
picked up 15 health
picked up 25 nails, following.

this carries on for the rest of the episode.

all i wanted was a marathon run played like any other demo, but the above had me stumped ala wtf??

and that's that

sshplur

2004-12-23 10:23:16 am

just one more thing Grin

is it possible to do the latter, compiling individual demos into a marathonic pak file (levels of the same episode), or do i have to do that menu thing like the qdq projects?

Mandel

2004-12-23 09:31:56 pm

Mumma

You can chain individual demos together into a marathon-like run without making a qdq-style menu. Take a look at demtool and the -p command for that.

Once you chained all demos together in the order you like, you just make a pak file with the demos in it, simple as that.