I'm wanting to make a script to capture & encode demos. The encoding part is done, I just have 2 issues. Opening nex & running a timedemo, it'll close once done, this doesn't happen with playdemo, it waits for further input. Also some demos need reloading on initialisation to display the map.

So how do I automatically quit after, "/path/to/nexuiz/nexuiz-linux-glx.sh -benchmark +forceqmenu 1 +cl_capturevideo 1 +cl_capturevideo_fps 24 +playdemo demos/team/test.dem" ?

& anything to overcome the occasional missing map on the 1st initialisation?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

You may not need a shellscript to do this. data/quake.rc can be used to queue demos that you want:

startdemos demos/demo1 demos/demo2 demos/demo3....

How about:
startdemos demos/demo1
cl_capturevideo 0
cl_capturevideo 1; startdemos demos/demo2
cl_capturevideo 0
cl_capturevideo 1; startdemos demos/demo3
cl_capturevideo 0

Or something similar?

lost wrote:Also some demos need reloading on initialisation to display the map.

Move these maps from your "data/dlcache" folder to "data" to fix this.

Thank you [-z-], the maps are now loading flawlessly.

Ed, that was something that I was unaware of, thanks for the insight.

All I need now is the ability to exit Nexuiz once a single demo has been played, much like what happens when you invoke Nex via the cli to run a timedemo.

Further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.

Maybe you should have a look at this:
http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk/mis ... iew=markup

IIRC it is editing the demo so you specify a start and end time. The demo is modified to have a very fast slowmo value until you get to the time you want, then it is set back to "slowmo 1" and capturing starts (so the DEMO gets the cl_capturevideo 1 thing somehow ... injected ... I dunno how to express it).

If you have a look at that script you can see at which places it injects "cl_capturevideo 0". you could edit it so that it also injects a "quit" command so that Nexuiz automatically closes after the recording was done.

I'm sure divverent can give you more hints about this.

Actually a tutorial on how to use it and how it works would be cool (for the ones who aren't smart enought to decipher the code in that script on their own, such as me)

Thank you, that looks good.

Injecting a quit is not necessary.

The "black map when playing back demos" problem in the engine is worked around now, so if the map is in dlcache, the demo will find it.

Then, you simply play back the demo using the -demo command line option. That will automatically quit when the demo is over.

-demo

It felt as though I was missing something simple. It works great, thank you divVerent.

& here it is: http://prophets.aforumfree.com/scriptur ... pt-t80.htm

It's a bit rough & it's certainly nothing special, it is simple & effective tho.

Thanks again for your help, it's appreciated.