1.12.3-pre4

Installation

• Download:
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Place the binary into the game folder e.g. Portal 2
• Open developer console and enter plugin_load sar

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Changelog

Fixes:

• fix crashes in new Portal 2 update
• fix sar_strafesync and sar_hud_groundframes in demo playback and for orange
• fix sar_strafesync_noground on Linux
• allow sar_record_at_demo_name to be empty

Features:

• sar_strafe_quality
• sar_hud_set_text_color
• sar_function
• add 'exit' option to sar_update

1.12.3-pre3

Installation

• Download:
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Place the binary into the game folder e.g. Portal 2
• Open developer console and enter plugin_load sar

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Changelog

Fixes:

• Change default renderer audio codec to aac
• Fix category rules appearing out of order
• Fix TAS frame counter

Features:

• Add sar_record_prefix, for automatically prefixing a string to demo names, optionally including the date/time
• Add sar_speedrun_export_all, analagous to the old sar_mtrigger_stats_export
• Add 'svars'; variables containing strings which can be used in cond
• Add sar_record_mkdir, for automatically creating directories as needed when you record
• Add nop, a trivial command which does nothing
• Detect invalid 'record' commands and stop the recording from starting
• Add camera follow mode (sar_cam_control 3)

1.12.3-pre2

Installation

• Download:
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Place the binary into the game folder e.g. Portal 2
• Open developer console and enter plugin_load sar

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Changelog

Fixes:

• Fixed toast colors appearing incorrectly due to being double-converted from sRGB
• Revert interface action minimum time to 50ms to stop LiveSplit missing splits
• Make sar_hud_groundframes work in coop
• Make white toasts non-white in console again

Features:

• Auto-updater through sar_check_update and sar_update
• Networked toasts, so you can send toasts to your coop partner

1.12.3-pre1

Installation

• Download:
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Place the binary into the game folder e.g. Portal 2
• Open developer console and enter plugin_load sar

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Changelog

Features:

• allow arbitrary positioning of the toasts HUD
• add simple animations to toasts
• sar_toast_compact, sar_toast_background
• customisation of toasts and more fine-grained dismissing via tags
• demo command blocker (to prevent demos from modifying cvars, closing game etc)
• sar_on_demo_start / sar_on_demo_stop
• sar_alias, to fix quoting issues in aliases
• sar_render_autostart_extension to set the file extension (and hence container format) used for sar_render_autostart

Fixes:

• prevent 'cm' cond from being satisfied by wrongwarp
• prevent strange behaviour in entity speedrun rule creation
• improve speedrun timer command autocompetions
• don't print all category information when switching category
• prevent HUD text (e.g. in toasts) from having incorrect length
• Portal Stories: Mel support after update
• Portal Reloaded support after update
• stop LiveSplit missing very close-together splits