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Reading a Warcraft III Replay???

Started by Miraglade, July 10, 2004, 04:15 AM

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Forged

#15
September 02, 2004, 07:48 PM
This is a bump, but did you ever get around to making the viewer?  Some people on my forum were asking for one today.
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#16
September 02, 2004, 07:59 PM
I did, but imcomplete.

Forged

#17
September 02, 2004, 08:22 PM
Are you still working on it?
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#18
September 02, 2004, 08:44 PM
Slowly but surely

Tuberload

#19
September 02, 2004, 10:36 PM
I am able to parse the headers (code is available here), and I was able to decompress the data blocks and read in their headers as well. From there is a bunch of Actions and such that you use to display a replay. From what I understand there is no actual movie formatted data saved anywhere?

I will release an updated version in Java shortly. Maybe from there I can make my own simple 2D player.
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Forged

#20
September 03, 2004, 06:06 PM
from what I understand the replays only excute the action which is why the 1.07+ are diffrent.

So unless you drew from the game I have no idea how you would make a movie maker.  I am not a very smart person though so I have no idea.
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Tuberload

#21
September 04, 2004, 04:12 PM
What I meant is there is no compressed movie data present in the replay files so you can not just pull out the data and pass it to a media player. You have to produce the movie yourself based on the actions present in the replay I believe.

I am by no means an expert on this subject, but during the brief period I worked on it that is what I discovered.

Although there could possibly be a library present that will play the movie when the actions are passed to it. This is of course complete speculation due to the fact that I have not looked into it, and currently do not posses the knowledge required to find out.
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#22
September 04, 2004, 05:12 PM
Correct, if you want to have a movie, then you'll have to come up with the graphics to cooperate with the actions in the replay file (Which would be a lot of work).

Adron

#23
September 09, 2004, 04:20 PM
Why not just make something to capture movies from War3?

Noodlez

#24
September 14, 2004, 10:01 PM
Couldn't you just display the units from the MPQ files?

UserLoser.

#25
September 15, 2004, 02:27 PM
Quote from: Noodlez on September 14, 2004, 10:01 PM
Couldn't you just display the units from the MPQ files?

If you feel like figuring that out and sharing it with us, ok :)

MyndFyre

#26
September 15, 2004, 07:36 PM
Quote from: Noodlez on September 14, 2004, 10:01 PM
Couldn't you just display the units from the MPQ files?

At that point, how much harder is it to just make another Warcraft-III game?  :P
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Tuberload

#27
September 17, 2004, 05:36 PM
Quote from: MyndFyre on September 15, 2004, 07:36 PM
Quote from: Noodlez on September 14, 2004, 10:01 PM
Couldn't you just display the units from the MPQ files?

At that point, how much harder is it to just make another Warcraft-III game?  :P

If I were to try and make my own replay player it would use crude 2D images that looked nothing like they should. It would be up to the user and my documentation to figure the rest out. :) Other than that I think Adron has the best solution.
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Noodlez

#28
September 18, 2004, 05:31 PM
It's not hard at all... there are open source programs that do it already.

MyndFyre

#29
September 20, 2004, 03:14 AM
Quote from: Noodlez on September 18, 2004, 05:31 PM
It's not hard at all... there are open source programs that do it already.

Such as?

By the way, my suggestion in re: to the comment, "Couldn't you just display the units from the MPQ files?" was that, if you're going to go through the trouble to display the fully-3D graphics extracted from the MPQ files, you might as well make the full game, because you're already practically there.

But that's dumb.  :P
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