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Default Re: Fritz Phase Two Progress Thread - 02-09-2004

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Originally Posted by Sniper
oooohhhh Your FPS is really bad!!
Thats because of the way I make movies. Heres how its done:

1. I record a normal demo. Here, I'm getting normal frames with no problems.

2. I playback the demo, and while doing so, turn on Wolf's CL_AVIDEMO feature, which has it taking about 15-20 screenshots a SECOND! This is why you see the hurt on my frames - the computer is REALLY busy creating those shots. BTW: the best setting is CL_AVIDEMO 15, which is 15 frames per second. You can do more, but its not really needed.

3. I take those screenshots and use a program to combine them into an .avi movie. I use the "pjBmp2Avi" program, which lets you pick whatever codec you want to use, and how you want to compress it. I compress them pretty hard, to keep the filesize down, which is why they look fuzzy.


Playing normally, with the settings turned up fairly high, and 10 or so bots on a map, playing on a P3, 866, I never dip below 60 FPS.
Needless to say, keeping these bots fast is very important to me, since I have an older system - if I wasn't careful, I wouldn't be able to play them myself.


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