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Valve Demo Toolchain

This collection of tools allow you to perform useful operations on Valve's .dem files, including automatically recording your TF2 Demo files with OBS.

• Events to VDM
• Demo2Obs

Tools

Events to VDM

Transforms your _events.txt into VDM files that are read by the Source engine.

Usage

python events_to_vdm.py "path/to/demos/folder"

With

• "path/to/demos/folder" as the path to where your demos are located (usually tf).

Optionally with

• --time_before_killstreak int (DEFAULT 1000) Ticks before a killstreak event to start recording.
• --time_before_bookmark int (DEFAULT 1000) Ticks before a bookmark event to start recording.
• --time_after_killstreak int (DEFAULT 500) Ticks after a killstreak event to start recording.
• --time_after_bookmark int (DEFAULT 500) Ticks after a bookmark event to start recording.
• --demos_folder_in_tf folder/ (DEFAULT "") If you have symlinked your demos folder to another path, use this to specify where to look inside tf for the next demo file.
• +nochat (DEFAULT FALSE) Disable chat replay.
• --custom_start_commands "commands_seperated by;" (DEFAULT "") Commands to be run at the start of a demo. Takes in "" containing ; separated commands.
• --custom_end_commands "commands_seperated by;" (DEFAULT "") Commands to be run at the end of a demo. Takes in "" containing ; separated commands.

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Demo2Obs

See this README

Attribution

Created by realSaddy.

Thanks to Ryuk for inspiration with RyukBot. Please check him out for a solution that utilizes TF2's internal exporter.

Licensed under AGPLv3.