1.12.5-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:

• Implement better HUD positioning system for ihud
• Add sar_velocitygraph
• Add workshop and menu conditions to cond

Fixes:

• Prevent negative font index hack in ihud crashing the game
• Don't add extra newlines in sar_speedrun_result output
• Make TAS player run changelevel correctly
• Allow fully quoted command for sar_expand
• Improve player trace accuracy
• Don't create directories for demos which won't record

1.12.4

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_cm_rightwarp, for preventing accidental CM wrongwarp
• sar_scrollspeed, for visually indicating coop scroll speed
• sar_render_merge, for merging sequential renders into one video
• sar_player_trace, for drawing a trace of a player's position and velocity over time
• sar_on_flags, for running commands when a level is finished
• sar_challenge_autostop 2, for automatically appending the final CM time to demo names after finishing recording
• sar_expand, for running sar_function-like expansions
• sar_hud_groundspeed, for showing the horizontal speed you had upon jumping
• sar_hud_demo 2, for showing just the name (not directory) of the demo being recorded
• sar_show_entinp, for showing entity inputs
• sar_speedrun_autostop, like sar_challenge_autostop but for other speedruns
• sar_aim_point_hud, for viewing the coordinates of an aimed-at point
• sar_fix_reloaded_cheats, for preventing Portal Reloaded affecting sv_cheats whilst keeping glitches like PTH possible
• sar_demo_overwrite_bak, for backup up demos which would be overwritten by a record command
• sar_hud_orange_only, for only viewing the SAR HUD for Orange in fullscreen PIP situations (e.g. solo coop)
• sar_tick_debug, for viewing debug info related to ticks
• sar_hud_bg, for rendering a simple background behind the SAR HUD
• sar_render_shutter_angle, for setting the shutter angle for a render
• sar_hud_velocity_precision, for setting the precision specifically for sar_hud_velocity
• sar_autorecord -1, for disabling autorecording entirely
• New TAS tools
• Improvements to wait
• Store pause durations in demos
• Ghost sync UI
• Combine and fix sar_seamshot_finder and sar_seamshot_helper
• Improved sar_speedrun_result output format
• force option for sar_update
• Game detection in cond, using e.g. cond "game=mel"
• ihud rewrite with more customisability
• Expand $' into double-quote in sar_functions
• Rename SAR HUD cvars and commands (removing default_ and padding_)

Fixes:

• Fix voidclipping not working when using sar_on_load
• Fix sar_render_remove_broken
• Make sar_update work on pre-releases
• Fix seq not timing correctly
• Fix possible bugs and crashes with sar_alias and sar_function
• Fix crash when loading saves using ghost_type 0
• Fix zone speedrun rules in demos
• Correct Aperture Tag and Portal Reloaded end timing rules
• Ignore sar_record_at and sar_pause_at while session inactive
• Clean up help strings
• Make SAR timer match CM timer exactly (not in demos sadly :( )
• Fix memory leak in cond
• Stop SAR crashing on game exit
• Fix game detection for Speedrun Mod on Linux
• Only allow sar_pause_at >0 with sv_cheats 1
• Prevent divide-by-zero crashes in svar arithmetic
• Don't re-show hidden HUD text when changed
• Prevent vphys HUD crashing the game in demo playback
• Always apply sar_force_fov on load
• Correct range of allowed values for sar_force_fov
• Fix non-CM coop timing start when demo recording starts early
• Don't show HUD text line when set to empty string

1.12.4-pre8

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_show_entinp
• force option for sar_update
• game detection in cond, using e.g. cond "game=mel"
• sar_player_trace improvements (@RainbowwPhoenixx)
  • horizontal velocity shown while looking at line
  • colors for speedlocking and max turn
• ihud rewrite with more customisation (@Krzyhau)
  • TAS ihud components
• sar_speedrun_autostop, working similarly to sar_challenge_autostop
• sar_stop, allowing for demos to be renamed after finishing recording them
• sar_aim_point_hud, to get coordinates of aimed-at point
• sar_fix_reloaded_cheats, to prevent Portal Reloaded changing sv_cheats whilst keeping glitches like PTH possible (@Krzyhau)
• New TAS parser
• sar_hud_tastick (@Krzyhau)

Fixes:

• Prevent ihud buttons appearing the wrong color with transparency (@Krzyhau)
• Prevent TAS player from outputting NaN values in tools (@Krzyhau)
• Remove broken TAS frame advancing code (@Krzyhau)
• Stop TAS playback when game not active (@Krzyhau)
• Show directories correctly in sar_tas_play autocompletion (@Krzyhau)
• Implement sar_aircontrol 1 on Linux (note: currently only works in base Portal 2)
• Correctly increment speedrun completed/reset statistics
• Make TAS tool execution order deterministic, dependent on order in script (@Krzyhau)
• Fix TAS mouse deactivation (@Krzyhau)
• Don't use net time for tick calculation in demo playback
• Detect map names consistently across platforms and in demos
• Fix Portal Reloaded speedrun end rule
• Force-stop TAS playback when starting a new playback (@Krzyhau)

1.12.4-pre7

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:

• improve sar_challenge_autostop 2 time format
• improve sar_speedrun_result output format
• add sar_hud_groundspeed
• add sar_hud_demo 2

Fixes:

• prevent divide-by-zero crashes in svar arithmetic
• correctly handle angle wraparound in setang TAS tool
• enforce strict ordering of framebulks in TAS scripts
• make TAS tools enable sv_cheats in all gamemodes
• don't re-show hidden HUD text when changed
• prevent vphys HUD crashing in demo playback
• fix TAS autostrafer "wobbliness"
• fix setang and autoaim TAS tools not being included in Windows build
• fix format of TAS command help strings

1.12.4-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:

• new TAS tools
• sar_expand
• combine and fix sar_seamshot_finder and sar_seamshot_helper
• major improvements to sar_player_trace

Fixes:

• stop SAR crashing on game exit
• fix game detection for Portal 2 Speedrun Mod on Linux (Coming Soon ™️)
• only allow sar_pause_at >0 with sv_cheats 1

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
TODO

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