Overview
You know how replays in towerfall are exported a gifs that look kinda bad? Well that can be fixed! (or made worse, if you’re into that kind of stuff)The process is actually pretty simple, and is very similar on both mac and pc. The only difference is how you access the XML code for replays (spoiler alert, it’s way more complex on mac 😛 )
Getting to the Code on Windows
Getting the code is pretty easy for windows users. What you have to do is left click on towerfall in your library, the select the ”properties” option. Then, go to the ”LOCAL FILES” tab and click ”BROWSE LOCAL FILES”. It should look something like this when you’re there :
What you have to do is left-click on the ReplayExport_Config file, then go for ”open with” and then ”notepad”.
That’s it!
Getting to the Code on Mac
To come!
Editing the Code
The code should look something like this :
There are 4 things you can change in this document : Framerate, Quality, Scale and Save directory. I think these are pretty self explanatory. What you need to know about XML is that lines with exclamation marks (like <!– Amount of frames in GIF per second of gameplay –>, for example), don’t do anything to the game, and are just put in by our friend Matt to explain what things do.
The interesting parts are the lines without an exclamation part. If you want to edit framerate, for example, just edit the number between <FrameRate> and </FrameRate>.
With the explanation and all I don’t think I really need to go further. I will, however, say that you should play around with settings until you find some that suit your need for quality, file size and time to export (with everything maxed out, it does take an annoying while to generate). Also keep in mind that steam doesn’t accept artworks that exceed 10MB.
Conclusion
Here’s a little replay I made, using the settings displayed in the last picture :
[link]It might be a little subtle, but you can see the motion is more fluid and the colors a bit less wonky. BTW, this file is 7,5MB big, while default replays usually are between 2 and 4 MB big.
I don’t think I have anything more to add, so go ahead and have fun making good looking replays 😛