Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-22T09:32:55+02:00

Well, its an old hacker trick to find out what cmdline params are being passed to an executable that is being launcjed by another. You simply replace the launched executable with a custom exe that prints out the received parameters.

The idea here is to extend this by making your middleware executable act as if it were the original exe; it steals the passed params from DFC, appends/alters whatever else is needed and then launches the proper FAForever.exe with the new set of params.

Statistics: Posted by Little Miss Murder — 22 Jan 2020, 09:32

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-21T16:21:02+02:00

Ah okay, have no idea what ur talking about, but thanks

Statistics: Posted by StormLantern — 21 Jan 2020, 16:21

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-21T09:16:12+02:00

You need a stub executable called FAForever.exe that just takes the passed command line and adds whatever is needed, which in turn then spawns the proper FAForever.exe.

In Linux this is child's play, you just create a bash script.

Statistics: Posted by Little Miss Murder — 21 Jan 2020, 09:16

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T22:41:10+02:00

lol okay, so how do I use this python client to do the whole two replay thing? :p

Thanks for the info btw

Statistics: Posted by StormLantern — 20 Jan 2020, 22:41

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T22:16:13+02:00

StormLantern wrote:
I presume that FAForever is the Python client?

(this is very cute by the way)

I'm gonna explain it for you.

there are actually two FAF apps (or clients whichever word you prefer)

also FAF and FAForever and Forged Alliance Forever are all accepted names for one and the same thing.

FAF first started out as a Python ( this is Python ) project.

then Downlord ( a faf user ) decided the python codebase was stale and proposed a new client that would this time be coded in Java. (at first the idea was ridiculed then it met with mild success)

For a while the two clients could be chosen from on the FAF website's download page with a quick run down of each's features.

And today the Java (or downlord) client is stock (the only choice) although die-hard fans of the python client stick by it and continue to use it.

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 20 Jan 2020, 22:16

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T21:13:41+02:00

tatsu wrote:
after testing I realized that downlord's client actually removes that line before you start an instance of FA.

Ah exactly, FAForever does the same thing. I presume that FAForever is the Python client?

Statistics: Posted by StormLantern — 20 Jan 2020, 21:13

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T21:12:53+02:00

tatsu wrote:
ZLO_RD wrote:should work with Python client, but it does not work with new Java/Downlord's client

why?

Downlord's the one who found it and that file belongs to FA not FAF and is not really used by FAF (appart to know which mods you turned on).

Also, I found that any alteration I make in the prefs file reverts after one start up of the game

Statistics: Posted by StormLantern — 20 Jan 2020, 21:12

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T20:52:42+02:00

after testing I realized that downlord's client actually removes that line before you start an instance of FA.

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 20 Jan 2020, 20:52

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T20:45:13+02:00

StormLantern wrote:
Downlords client just gives the error that there is already an instance of supcom running

huh, ok maybe a new setting option to look into for downlord client

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 20 Jan 2020, 20:45

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T20:20:29+02:00

tatsu wrote:
ZLO_RD wrote:should work with Python client, but it does not work with new Java/Downlord's client

why?

Downlord's the one who found it and that file belongs to FA not FAF and is not really used by FAF (appart to know which mods you turned on).

Downlords client just gives the error that there is already an instance of supcom running

Statistics: Posted by StormLantern — 20 Jan 2020, 20:20

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T20:19:19+02:00

ZLO_RD wrote:
/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14434 method described here should work with Python client, but it does not work with new Java/Downlord's client

The python cliënt is a different name for the FAFforever lobby correct? In that case I tried this already. Like you mentioned, I found this topic as well and tried to use that code, but all it did was start two instances of Supcom, but always playing the same replay, even when I started two different ones. I hope that makes sense.

Statistics: Posted by StormLantern — 20 Jan 2020, 20:19

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T20:09:12+02:00

ZLO_RD wrote:
should work with Python client, but it does not work with new Java/Downlord's client

why?

Downlord's the one who found it and that file belongs to FA not FAF and is not really used by FAF (appart to know which mods you turned on).

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 20 Jan 2020, 20:09

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T09:47:56+02:00

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14434 method described here should work with Python client, but it does not work with new Java/Downlord's client

Statistics: Posted by ZLO_RD — 20 Jan 2020, 09:47

Re: Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-20T00:30:40+02:00

Multiple instances of supcom can be played at the same time. I couldn't find the command needed to allow this, but it can.

Statistics: Posted by Defiant — 20 Jan 2020, 00:30

Run two replays simultaneously

2020-01-18T21:10:21+02:00

Is there a way to do this? I want to learn more by comparing my replays live with replays of others..

Statistics: Posted by StormLantern — 18 Jan 2020, 21:10