1.12.4-pre5

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:

• sar_scrollspeed
• sar_render_merge
• sar_player_trace
• sar_on_flags
• sar_challenge_autostop 2

Fixes:

• SAR timer now exactly matches CM timer (note: demo playback does not currently match)
• fix zone speedrun rules in demos
• improve sar_render_remove_broken
• fix memory leak in 'cond'

Note: when playing coop as orange, sar_challenge_autostop (including sar_challenge_autostop 1) will currently only work if your partner is also using this pre-release

1.12.4-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:

• Prevent possible crash during level loads
• Display sar_hud_bg as orange
• Possibly fix strange Unicode output in Windows crash reports

1.12.4-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

Features:

• add sar_cm_rightwarp

Fixes:

• fix zone speedrun rules in demos
• don't show ghost sync HUD in-game
• remove leftover debug code
• fix Aperture Tag timing end rule
• ignore sar_record_at and sar_pause_at while session inactive
• prevent 0 tick long pause being recorded on every load
• clean up help/usage strings (huge thanks to @RainbowwPhoenixx for their help with this!)

1.12.4-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
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1.12.4-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:

• Add sar_tick_debug
• Add sar_hud_bg
• Add sar_render_shutter_angle
• Add sar_hud_velocity_precision

Fixes:

• Fix voidclipping not working when using sar_on_load
• Fix sar_render_remove_broken
• Fix sar_update not working on pre-releases
• Fix seq not timing correctly
• Fix possible bugs and crashes with sar_alias and sar_function

1.12.3

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:

• sar_record_prefix, for automatically prefixing a string to demo names, possibly including a timestamp
• sar_record_mkdir, to ensure you don't record demos to a nonexistent directory
• Auto-updater through sar_update and sar_check_update
• Complex customisation for toasts HUD
• Toast tags system
• Demo command blocker
• sar_render_autostart_extension
• sar_cam_control 3 (follow mode)
• sar_speedrun_export_all to export a sequence of runs (currently only effective for single-map categories)
• sar_strafe_quality, a HUD which attempts to indicate the quality of your strafes by showing your strafesync and groundframes over time
• SAR HUD text can now be colored, either through sar_hud_text_set_color or through inline color codes
• sar_disable_save_status_hud
• config+:
  • sar_on_demo_start / sar_on_demo_stop
  • sar_alias, to fix quoting issues with alias and allow further arguments to be passed in
  • sar_function, to allow more complex logic with arguments
  • "svars", to store arbitrary strings which can be used within functions and cond, and can also have simple arithmetic performed on them
    • svar_add / svar_sub / svar_mul / svar_div / svar_mod
    • svar_capture
    • svar_from_cvar
    • $varname substitution in sar_function bodies
  • nop, a command that does nothing and ignores all its arguments
  • sar_font_get_name to get the name of a font index

Fixes:

• config+ commands are no longer recorded in demos
• Removed ghost countdown in chat when countdown was 0 seconds long
• Speedrun timer is now accurate in demos
• Speedrun timer accuracy has been improved in CM
• Fixed crashes in new Portal 2 update
• Fix sar_strafesync to give a more accurate/useful value
• Fix sar_strafesync and sar_hud_groundframes in demos and for orange
• Fix sar_strafesync_noground on Linux
• Allow sar_record_at_demo_name to be empty
• Change default renderer codec to aac
• Fix category rules appearing out-of-order in sar_speedrun_category output
• Fix TAS frame counter
• Prevent cm cond being satisfied by wrongwarp
• Improve speedrun timer command autocompletions
• Don't print all category information when switching category
• Prevent text exceeding the bounds of the surrounding toast
• Portal Stories: Mel and Portal Reloaded support after game updates
• Run first command of a seq immediately
• Allow sar_hud_set_text string to be unquoted

1.12.3-pre6

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:

• svar arithmetic through svar_[add/sub/mul/div/mod]
• svar_get
• svar substitution into sar_function bodies

Fixes:

• sar_alias and sar_function can take fully quoted commands
• sar_alias and sar_function created commands now work with extra arguments as intended
• config+ commands are no longer recorded in demos
• the strafe quality HUD no longer skips odd ticks
• removed ghost countdown in chat when countdown is 0 seconds
• speedrun timer is now accurate in demos
• CM speedrun timer accuracy has been improved

1.12.3-pre5

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 entity input parameters not being detected on Windows, causing e.g. the speedrun timer not to work
• Prevent sar_update printing an error when used with more than one argument

Features:

• sar_disable_save_status_hud
• Make sar_speedrun_export_all append to file if it already exists

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)