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Development => General Development => Topic started by: TinMan on May 22, 2007, 06:03:10 PM

Title: DP2DEMO - Windows Shell Extension to launce demos
Post by: TinMan on May 22, 2007, 06:03:10 PM: I stripped down cure's demoplay for paintball2.
http://cure.gamepoint.net/demoplay/cure_demoplay_windows.html

Q: What is it?
A: It's some scripting that will let you right click a demo file anywhere on your computer and run the demo by clicking "Play Demo" on your right-click shell menu.

Q: My dpball isn't installed to C:\Games\Paintball2\, will it still work?
A: You'll need to modify the files, but they're pretty noob friendly so it shouldn't be too hard for you to get it to work.

Q: How does it run the demo from ANYWHERE?
A: It copies the demo to pball/demos/tempdemo.dm2 and runs that.

Q: How do I uninstall?
A: Run the "uninstall.reg" file and then delete the dp2demo directory.

Q: Will this work on Vista?
A: Maybe, I only tested it on XP and Win2K.

Q: Who has mad hops?
A: Spook does, and you can open his jump demos easily using this.

Instructions on dp2demo:
1. Download the attached file
2. Extract so that the dp2demo directory is C:\Games\Paintball2\dp2demo\
3. Double-click "install.reg" to add the registry key (for shell extension)
4. Right click a .dm2 file (from any directory) and click the "Play Demo" option on your shell extension
5. Enjoy!
Title: Re: DP2DEMO
Post by: TinMan on May 22, 2007, 06:12:21 PM: I'm double-posting here, why did KnacK touch my stuff?
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« Last Edit: Today at 06:07:33 PM by KnacK »
Title: Re: DP2DEMO
Post by: Spook on May 22, 2007, 07:15:44 PM: Nice...

any way i can get my demos to automatically record to that folder?
Title: Re: DP2DEMO
Post by: TinMan on May 22, 2007, 08:33:02 PM: You don't need to, they automatically go to the pball/demos folder, go into your pball/demos folder, right-click on the <demo-name>.dm2, and click "Play Demo". If you installed it right then it should work fine with any demo anywhere.
Title: Re: DP2DEMO
Post by: KnacK on May 23, 2007, 08:13:19 AM: Quote from: TinMan on May 22, 2007, 06:12:21 PM
I'm double-posting here, why did KnacK touch my stuff?
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« Last Edit: Today at 06:07:33 PM by KnacK »

I had changed the title to make it more descriptive as to what it did. I was also considering it for sticky status as I think it's a great idea.

But apparently you don't so no worries...
Title: Re: DP2DEMO
Post by: Spook on May 23, 2007, 02:26:01 PM: Go ahead and sticky it, he just wanted to know what you touched. =]
Title: Re: DP2DEMO - Windows Shell Extension to launce demos
Post by: TinMan on May 23, 2007, 02:34:34 PM: Yeah, go ahead. Thought you were gonna modify my uploaded files to wallhacks or something, lawl. Anyways, I edited the title a bit.