Game Music and Demos

[vinnie01]

Hi all


When Messing with Vavoom I tried to get it play doom, I have sound but no music when I looked in the console it says no instrument mapped to drum set 0 or another number. To play music does this program use timidity files or something.

IT seems to miss demos too where it attemps to do a demo it cant find the demo files.


Do u know what is wrong here as I havent used this program for long.

Vincent

[Firebrand]

Yes, Vavoom uses timidity for music, as for demos, demos in the original doom format don't work, if you want, you can record your own demos for it.

[Karnizero]

[...] demos in the original doom format don't work, [...]

That's an annoyng part of the modern source ports. I dont know a modern source port who allows playing Doom original demos, appart of PrBoom, Chocolate Doom, and similars.

[Crimson Wizard]

I wonder is it possible to write a demo converter? we have an open Doom source code (right?) and we have a Vavoom code, so these may be compared.

[Janis Legzdinsh]

It's impossible.

[Crimson Wizard]

But it's weird, I still cannot record demo in Vavoom. I am using 1.29. Before starting a game (doom2) I type, for example, "record mydemo map22", play for a bit, got killed, exit the game, and there was a mydemo file with only 4 bytes of data once again.
Am I doing something wrong?

[Firebrand]

I'm not sure, I think you need to type that command while ingame .

[Janis Legzdinsh]

Currently it works only for multiplayer games. To record single player you have to set console variable use_standalone to 0.

[Crimson Wizard]

I'm not sure, I think you need to type that command while ingame .

Firebrand, if you're not sure, you should try it in game first before giving advices to others
It works both.