built in screen capture

[amantonas]

is there any possibilty that we could have a built in screen capturer for fof? Would it be too hard?

[BlackFate]

Would it be too hard to push print screen?
Or use xfire screen capture?
Or any of the other programs used for this?

Mike.

[Kotti]

Do you mean recording a video? I suggested that long time ago, but it never got anywhere further than RF-mods to-do list.

[amantonas]

well, mike, maybe some of those programs take up the 20% of free system resources that i have left from fof and brings fof down from 100fps to 14fps.

oh yeah, look at this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAK9J71hn2k

[coolguy567]

A built in screen capture could just remember which notes were hit and when notes were held down and released and when overstrums occurred, and generate the video from this data after the song ends. That would mean much less lag while you're playing the song.

Not sure how hard it is to generate a video.

[Kotti]

That's the same idea that came up in my old topic. Dunno why it wasn't made, maybe RF got lazy or something.

Hehe, my comment was removed from that video.
"That doesn't prove that Xfire capturing sucks, that proves that your computer sucks."

[Elodius]

That's the same idea that came up in my old topic. Dunno why it wasn't made, maybe RF got lazy or something.

Hehe, my comment was removed from that video.
"That doesn't prove that Xfire capturing sucks, that proves that your computer sucks."

So as mine
my pc sucks
but i record with fraps in low quality and works pretty well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7iiFCfDDCI

[amantonas]

how do you set it to low quality?
I bought fraps, but im not that impressed

[Elodius]

how do you set it to low quality cuz i bought fraps.

its not low quality in fraps
its on frets on fire -.-"

[dorkvader]

In linux you usually have a separatye program to do screen shotting. So If I run fretsonfire in fullscreen, I'll miss the next 30 seconds waiting for the program to load, or, alternatively, after it loads, I have to click on a button to save it. Very bad for playing fof.

So this is a better idea than it at first may seem. I support it.

Though I am going to look for alternative screenshot programs.

[raph666]

I wonder how it would run, resource-wise, if the game wrote the key presses to a file so you could playback that replay in-game, instead of having to record videos and publish them on youtube, recording to some lightweight .txt file with a "cerealizing" security system like the scores have. We could share those replay files. A bit like Toribash replays system.
I'm pretty sure someone already talked about that before

[Razlo7]

i support it because it would be much easier! however u can just open fraps then minimize it and open FOF and use a hotkey to start and stop recording pretty easy lol

[raph666]

i support it because it would be much easier! however u can just open fraps then minimize it and open FOF and use a hotkey to start and stop recording pretty easy lol

We all know that, that's why the topic title is "Built in screen capture"

[BSRaven]

The text-based replays is interesting... but someone might be able to crack the format and out-perform Jurgen for YouTube (and claim it as legit without cutting any parts out)...

[amantonas]

well we could have a verification system of some sort....