(I'm not sure if this goes here, if it goes somewhere else, please tell me where it should go)
(Also, what I'm trying to do is for personal use only. I'm not thinking of making a movie for publication (if you don't want to help, you don't have to))
Me and my brother were thinking it would be cool to be able to make a TAS of our RPG Maker XP games. They are written in RGSS, and I know Ruby, so I was wondering how I could do that (it would have to be written in Ruby). I could think of a frame advance type thing, but I would like help for a few other things:
1. recording. I can think of something that would record a movie, but I can't think of something that would be able to play back those. If there was some way I could edit the Input module, that would be great.
2. savestates. Would I just have to store everything into a global variable then change them later? But then how about the RNG? Would I have to change the srand method or the rand method? Or maybe the Time class to keep at a certain time so that the srand method would always return the right seed?
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I think I found a way to have it push the buttons I want. They won't play back correctly though because the RNG will be different...
EDIT: I got the RNG to be the same each time you play, but I still can't make savestates. It's the only thing I got left now.