lawena-ng

lawena-ng is a C++ port of Java Lawena. It greatly enhances your TF2 and other Source games image quality for recording purposes, with little performance loss compared to other alternatives. Records using in-game Source Recorder, with key bindings to ease the process.

Easy to install and use. Does not interfere with your regular configs, HUD or launch options.

Features

• Working settings manager, compatible with old Lawena's setting file
  • it reads from and saves to lawena.lwf in executable's current directory by default, but this can be overwritten by passing runtime argument (e.g. ./lawena-ng /path/to/my/lawena.lwf)

Installing

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Building

Windows

Required Visual Studio workloads:

• Desktop development with C++

Visual Studio -> Clone a repository -> URL: https://github.com/ibleedbutter/lawena-ng.git

Build -> Build all (or Ctrl+Shift+B)

Linux

Required dependencies:

• git
• cmake
• make
• g++ or clang++

git clone https://github.com/ibleedbutter/lawena-ng.git
cd lawena-ng
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Contributing

You can help out even if you're not a developer. Issues with old Lawena or ideas for lawena-ng would be much appreciated!

• Open a GitHub issue
• Reply in the TFTV thread
• Send me an email: 119887590+IBleedButter@users.noreply.github.com
• Send me a Discord message: ibleedbutter

TO-DO

Port Java codebase to C++. Use Qt6 as cross-platform GUI framework.

• Add 64-bit TF2 support and enable it by default
• Add CastingEssentials by default
• Add support for generating VDM files based off of an _events.txt file (thanks blakeplusplus)
• Add a previewer for custom particle effects
• Add an in-line renderer to remove dependencies on external tools like VirtualDub, AviRecorder or FFmpeg
• Add SourceRes for rendering beyond your native resolution (thanks maraudeR)
• Fix the skybox previewer (only seems to be dysfunctional on Linux?)
• Fix 'kill notices only' and 'medic' HUDs not working (only seems to be dysfunctional when using CE?)
• Fix 'medic' HUD: include HP (thanks Blu2th1000)
• Fix medic speech bubbles appearing for the first few seconds when jumping ticks (thanks pajaro)
• Fix snd_soundmixer changing when jumping ticks (thanks pajaro)
• Look into using a custom tf2 install with gameinfo.txt (thanks Hold_on)
• Remove dependence on admin privs under Windows (CLWindows.java:125?)
• Better HUD checking: old Lawena thinks some custom assets like CE are HUDs
• Output recordings outside the tf folder: TF2 doesn't let you do this, but an easy workaround is to have Lawena move them around as they appear on disk
• Better config:
  • graphics: use mastercomfig ultra preset instead of Chris Max's maxquality cfgs (they've been unmaintained since 2012)
  • tf_use_min_viewmodels 0
  • gameui_preventescapetoshow
  • cl_jiggle_bone_framerate_cutoff 0: fixes botkiller shaking (thanks phnx8)
  • r_portalsopenall 1: fixes doorway flash glitch (thanks phnx8)
  • violence_*gibs & violence_*blood: enables gibs in case someone disables them in their class cfg (thanks phnx8)
  • hud_saytext_time 0: keeps chat disabled (thanks phnx8)
• Better default settings
  • Change resolution from 1280x720 to 1920x1080
  • Change viewmodelf FOV from 70 to 90
  • Disable motion blur
  • Enable default crosshair
  • Enable combat text (dmg numbers)
  • Enable hitsounds
  • Add -insecure launch option

Credits

• Original project created by Montz
• Original developer: Quantic since June 2013 to December 2018
• Current developer: IBleedButter since May 2024
• Graphic .cfg files based on mastercoms' ultra preset
• Built-in Killnotices only and Medic HUD made by mih
• Skyboxes included made by komaokc from GameBanana
• Includes some content used in PLDX recording tool
• Valve - Source engine, Team Fortress and the Team Fortress logo