Originally Posted by
ape
What's the best way to get good at replay making? By just messing around with the tori and trying different things, studying other people's replays using some of the scripts you mentioned?
It varies from person to person. Ultimately the most important thing is to
have fun.
I'm not saying this as a politically correct answer. I'm saying it because otherwise you'll simply stop playing Toribash as it becomes a burden.
Default replay-makers like Larfen and myself give some credit to Enikesha, one of the tools that I mentioned, as a main form to learn. It offers you a way to break down the replays of people you like and learn from them.
My
best advice though, and what might have made me stick with the game for so long, is to make use of the community. Toribash is heavily community-based for a lot of people.
You make replays like you want to, trying to improve every time and having fun while at it, and you post them on the Replays board.
CnC some other players and they'll cnc you back.
Pay attention to what they tell you, listen to their advice, and enjoy that other people take time to watch and comment on your stuff. That way you'll get better.
Also, try and participate in the SP events. Even if you don't win, it's a great way to challenge yourself to get better with a set deadline.
I can honestly say that I improved the fastest in all of my time in Toribash when I used to participate in big competitions.
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I'm adding a contribution to the first post's information.
I'll present you with the solution to one or two problems that were layed on #ormo yesterday.
Example- mod r_rooftops-v2.tbm
start:
http://imgur.com/JIEHn82
ending:
http://imgur.com/B0XbGHf
The mod has the engageplayerpos set as: 2.00,5.00,5.00,-2.00,5.00,5.00
By logic you'd think that setting the engageplayerrot to: 0,0,-90,0,0,90 would solve it, but it promps this bug -
http://imgur.com/PQiZL8P
So here is how you solve it:
Setting the engageplayerpos and engageplayerrot to the values mentioned above does NOT prompt a bug if there
isn't a mod set.
Step 1:Therefore you can just open Freeplay regularly and set:
- engageplayerpos: 2.00,5.00,5.00,-2.00,5.00,5.00
- engageplayerrot: 0,0,-90,0,0,90
Exemplifying screenshots:
http://imgur.com/pVwySes
http://imgur.com/pVwySes
Step 2: Hold all, press space once and save the replay.
Step 3: Open your replay with notepad (you go to your Toribash folder, then to the "replays" folder, right click the desired replay, "Open with", and select notepad)
Step 4: Copy everything below and including the FRAME 0 line -
http://imgur.com/kf6FlR6
Step 5: Open Toribash on the desired mod, and simply save a replay. In this case I used r_rooftops-v2.tbm -
http://imgur.com/JIEHn82
Step 6: Open this second replay on notepad, and copy the stuff mentioned in STEP 4 to it. -
http://imgur.com/ZB0ggn0
Step 7: Save this new file and you can now open it and enjoy the desired positions. -
http://imgur.com/B0XbGHf
Last edited by Oblivion; Mar 18, 2014 at 12:06 AM.