An update on my TAS program for Windows Just keeping people updated on this, and because I like sharing progress. I'm currently developing a program to TAS in windows, and I've managed to get complete keyboard/mouse input, as well as displaying the amount of frames that had passed since the first time you injected (injecting a dll into the target process). From here, I'll be working on being able to save and record multiple sessions, but I'm not really sure how I would approach frame-by-frame edits. Here's a sample video of me playing Terraria where I can see the input and frame count: https://youtu.be/gDQZogMDSek This video isn't playing or recording any input, but once I get that finished then I'll make this available to people. It may not look like much without actual frame-perfect playback.
I've been working on something these past few days and I've finally begun with something that can do frame-perfect input. However, it's VERY barebones right now, because of my lack of coding knowledge, so all it does right now is click every other frame. Hopefully in the future, I'd be making something similar to Bizhawk's TAStudio program. The only two things I've tested this in is in Minecraft and Terraria, and also random windows that I moused over when I actually got the clicking to work. Minecraft worked fine and it clicked every other frame, but Terraria has some sort of check and just didn't process any of the clicking that wasn't actually from my mouse. I'll post updates on this in the future, and publicly release this once I get some sort of "modularization" going on. You can see a video here on me showing off what I have so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtCzK3oJ2Y For tech nerds out there: This does not mess with the system's clock, but instead injects a DLL program into the desired application to watch for frame updates. This whole system is actually someone else's work that was open source, I've just added some really barebones thing with it to click every other frame However, this arises a problem: DLL injection. Currently, Terraria goes fucking NUTS when you try to run OBS and record while the DLL was already injected. It's got some sort of anticheat set up with it, I'm not sure exactly what's happening here. But somewhere halfway it fails to do something, and it ends up corrupting the process. Colors show up as the wrong hue, things using alpha are slightly darker, and at one point it stopped music from working altogether. TL;DR, I'm working on a program to TAS windows programs. It's not released yet, and there's already some problems with it. I'll release it when I find a way to play back input.
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