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mzmonsour / open-prec

Record demos in Team Fortress 2 automatically
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Tf2 64-bit support? #1

Open Toudahl opened 5 months ago

Toudahl commented 5 months ago

Hello,

The 64 bit update broke prec.

Do you have any idea how close in feature that prec and open-prec is? And do you have any idea how much it would take to build this with 64bit support?

Thanks.

mzmonsour commented 5 months ago

Hi,

From what I recall, this plugin supports the basic auto-recording settings, as well as killstreak marking. If there are more niche features of prec that I didn't know about at the time, or ones that came after I wrote this plugin, they probably aren't supported.

As for building in 64-bit, I don't think there is anything in my code that would break it, but being that it's 9 years old it's built against a very old version of the Source SDK. I imagine the SDK itself will need to be updated to a version that supports the 64-bit build, which will come with its own problems if anything has changed drastically. It is also worth mentioning that although this plugin is pretty benign, I never had it signed by the developers, so VAC servers will probably take issue with the plugin.

For what it's worth, I think that TF2's built-in auto recording settings have all the same features as this plugin, so it's probably better to use those instead. Let me know if you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer from what I remember about this project.

Toudahl commented 5 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply.

So the high level todo list seems to be:

I am not yet committed to doing this. But if I find some time - would you prefer I make a PR to your repo, or fork this one?

Also, do you recall where you saw the original prec code? I can't seem to find it.

mzmonsour commented 5 months ago

I would prefer if you fork. I'm happy to offer what help I can, but it's been a long time since I've worked on this code, so I probably wouldn't be very active as a maintainer.

The original prec, as far as I know, is not open source. The original motivations for this project were to recreate the functionality of prec with my own code so that it could be easily modified, and to have a version that could be compiled multi-platform. Prec could not be used on TF2 for Linux since it was distributed only as a DLL, so that was one of the big reasons I wrote this. Any code from this repo is pretty much entirely my own, available under MIT, so you can do basically whatever with it as long as the copyright notice follows.

Toudahl commented 5 months ago

Ah, I didn't realize you made it from scratch. That's pretty cool :-)

Thanks for the offer of help, I might take you up on it.