Patch elma.exe with milagros

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 29 Sep 2005, 23:36

John wanted from me to do the patch that will automatically save pcx of every frame, so you can simply do avi with program like videomach...
DO IT YOURSELF!

so how to do it?

Step one:
we want to set to dump pcx by default
this can be done by many ways, the easiest must be to change key checking.. so change value at
0x1bafa 74h->75h

Step two:
balazs allowed only 100 dumps (or atleast then will be not in order mixed) so we want to change it. Dunno why Balzs didnt use right switch for sprintf, so there are two possiblities - for dump<10 and dump>=10.. we need to change it at two places
0x4d8f0 snap%d.pcx -> sn%05d.pcx
0x4d8fd snap0%d.pcx -> sn0%04d.pcx

Step three:
dump is slow (takes 0.6s on my comp) so we need to set default slow motion, so easiest way is to switch testing for hib's bit for that key
0x55939 74h->75h

Step four:
it's not slow enough, we need to slow it more (change to 1/4, if we want to 1/8, change to 05)
0x5593e 02h->04h

AND IT'S READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 30 Sep 2005, 08:55

paych doesnt take pcx when you press alt+tab ( i might take a look at it), now its good to use windowed elma, that fixes the problem so you can play those #ranks or whatever during dumping

8-ball · Post by **8-ball** » 30 Sep 2005, 09:01

oh my god, you incredible arse!

Zweq · Post by **Zweq** » 30 Sep 2005, 09:10

'DO IT YOURSELF!' 'patch elma.exe with milagros'. 3 words, shat the fak =D
forum version of game stepmania?

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 30 Sep 2005, 11:38

looks liek nobody likes patching so i'll do some prog today that will patch it itself.. (like elmaconf)
adn variable speed should be added, because it works quite fast on some comps (john's...), maybe good vsync helps

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 30 Sep 2005, 11:50

window mode doesnt solve that problem but its muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch faster
i'll make a prog that sets speed, maybe real time dump possible;)

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 30 Sep 2005, 19:01

i've uplaoded auto dumper for 30fps in real time (also while playing)
and also 60fps (30fps but 2x slowed down) for replays
but IT HAS TO BE USED IN WINDOW MODE! (otherwise 10x slower)

John · Post by **John** » 30 Sep 2005, 19:48

didnt get those windowed to work properly, didnt get smooth animation in videomach...

anyway that final.exe downloadable here works fine if u just dont let screensaver start or alt tab out from elma.
If u do there will be jumps in final recording. So framedump when u have lots of time and something else to do. Also I calculated framerate to 43,572621035058430717863105175292 =) so when adding frames to videomach (which I can send to u on irc if u want) add them with framerate close to that for realistic speed later in the avi.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 30 Sep 2005, 21:01

I tried making a video of my 56:xx Tricks abound rec. Worked pretty good, the video is 320x240, ~ 8MB and 23 secs, so it runs in turbo speed

Pretty smooth though.

twipley · Post by **twipley** » 30 Sep 2005, 21:06

can you upload, just to show us a view of how it is going

The_BoneLESS · Post by **The_BoneLESS** » 30 Sep 2005, 22:55

Ok, now i get why mila is the cheatless, such a prog master

And that pcx program looks awesome.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 1 Oct 2005, 01:23

now its made with constant (and selectable) framerate
i hope someone will upload it to some safe place..

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 1 Oct 2005, 01:32

http://www.kulde.net/constfps.zip - its here

twipley · Post by **twipley** » 1 Oct 2005, 03:41

is it you who wrote that wonderful story

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 1 Oct 2005, 19:04

after some thousands frames it slowly slowed down... fixed (download somewhere

)

John · Post by **John** » 1 Oct 2005, 19:54

mila next update on patch should be either screencapture hotkey to be able to start and stop capturing whenever u want to. Or program like that bmpscanner I sent u, which makes jpg out from pcx.

Quite some hdspace otherwise if whane labpro end recorded.. ;X

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 1 Oct 2005, 20:20

that start/end is ez.. only lazy to do that now:)

Xiphias · Post by **Xiphias** » 2 Oct 2005, 02:54

a bit off-topic i think:
mila
couldn't you do a patch wich makes it possible to zoom in and out while playing? fx. instead of playing with 2.00 zoom all the time. Kinda hard to play a whole level with the same close up zoom.
this could make it possible to max hoyl a level.
for a programmer like you, it shouldn't be that hard. just some hotkeys.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 2 Oct 2005, 12:11

ye, it ez but might take a while..
that zoom constant (this time variable) is used in quite many places (where hib rewrites it with elmaconf) at at all those places that variable needs to be put but variable is bigger in asm code than constant (or same??0, so might take a while to do all thos jumps and .. ye, maybe ill do that, anyway i dont think anyone will use it

Kestas · Post by **Kestas** » 7 Oct 2005, 16:28

gosh mila that's some nice and such a bomb patch you have did!

it can open a huge perspective in smooth and high quallity elma movie making and i beleave soon there will be much more of great elma stuff to come up.

max nice

total respect

anpdad · Post by **anpdad** » 7 Nov 2005, 23:01

Quite useful thingie. Always wanted to ask somebody to make it and now BAH! Already done o_O man, its cooooooooool.

Xiphias · Post by **Xiphias** » 25 Nov 2005, 19:42

Everyone have allways talked about instead of a Top10 in the game there should be maybe Top50 or 100..

So why don't you or someone who would know how.. Make a small patch that every time you finish a lvl.. the time would be extracted to a .txt file.. something like that.. Or just straight in the game.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 14 Jan 2006, 18:37

fixed that turn bug (it was in hib's part)
took major pain.. or i suck
and now you can set any fps

after I fix elmaconf I'll publish it (so it won't check CRC which is not valid anymore)
..so go for smooth animations!!!

culinko · Post by **culinko** » 14 Jan 2006, 22:37

nice to hear that news. thx mila :-*

Domovoy · Post by **Domovoy** » 14 Jan 2006, 23:07

mila, maybe it will be better not to remove crc-check, but just fix it to new value

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 15 Jan 2006, 00:41

http://www.kulde.net/constfps.rar
this should be it
use d2dwindower with that, it goes 10x faster

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 13 Jun 2006, 10:41

could someone upload constfps? i can't download it anywhere

John · Post by **John** » 13 Jun 2006, 11:26

http://mxb.dk/upload/constfps.exe

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 13 Jun 2006, 11:33

thanx, John

you're cool!!

error · Post by **error** » 14 Jun 2006, 05:08

This is mini-presentation of my "Error Elma Kup"

he he

http://upload.wosb.ru/files/EEK.rar

simon_labroue · Post by **simon_labroue** » 14 Jun 2006, 21:16

error wrote:This is mini-presentation of my "Error Elma Kup"

he he

http://upload.wosb.ru/files/EEK.rar

shittt..... did you see that apple taking???? taht's sick0r!!!!

Xiphias · Post by **Xiphias** » 14 Jun 2006, 22:46

simon_labroue wrote:
error wrote:This is mini-presentation of my "Error Elma Kup"

he he

http://upload.wosb.ru/files/EEK.rar
shittt..... did you see that apple taking???? taht's sick0r!!!!

i SAW it

that's CRazYZ applz takzir.!!:!!:!

Lee · Post by **Lee** » 16 Jun 2006, 07:23

just experimenting with a small flash:
http://cg.50webs.org/banner.swf
...he fell off his bike

maybe add more?

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 16 Jun 2006, 07:31

watefak, why all the offtopic?

A.K.B. · Post by **A.K.B.** » 16 Jun 2006, 10:45

I just whane see more siX elma movies.

Xiphias · Post by **Xiphias** » 20 Jul 2009, 04:26

I noticed that I can take screenshot every frame in normal belma.exe ... wtf? there used to be few seconds delay between each shot. like elma lag.. now Nothing. I hold down the button and I get screenshot every 0,02-0,03 sec.. prolly every 0,03 which is every frame.

anyone else experienced this?
could be very useful for live online movie making

Mawane · Post by **Mawane** » 20 Jul 2009, 04:30

i always get 2 screenshots when i press the button, i just press normally
anyone can explain?

Igge · Post by **Igge** » 20 Jul 2009, 04:32

Mawane wrote:i always get 2 screenshots when i press the button, i just press normally
anyone can explain?

Happens to me too sometimes.

Zweq · Post by **Zweq** » 20 Jul 2009, 05:21

you have to stop pressing the button like a mongo, press normally plz

Igge · Post by **Igge** » 20 Jul 2009, 05:21

Oh, you and your nab numpad screenshot key..

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