Lawena v4.1.18

About this release

This is a maintenance release working around a TF2 Inferno Update bug that broke recording. Cheers to @joekiller, @AllOverRS and @truelossless for helping in tracking down the problem and solution.

Make sure your Movie Path is under the tf folder, or that it's sharing the same drive.

Instructions

1. Direct link to install Java: Java for Windows 64bit / Java for Windows 32bit
2. Download lawena-stable-4.1.18.zip below.
3. Extract all files and run lawena.exe
4. Automatic updater will run and then launch Lawena.
5. Done!

What's new

• Fixes Inferno Update breaking startmovie command (#83)
• Added "Open Game Folder" menu item.

Raw changes: 4.1.17...4.1.18

Lawena v4.1.17

About this release

You need to download the included ZIP file for a clean upgrade to fix a HUD issue due to auto-update being unable to delete files. See #104 for details.

Instructions

1. Direct link to install Java: Java for Windows 64bit / Java for Windows 32bit
2. Download lawena-stable-4.1.17.zip below.
3. Extract all files and run lawena.exe
4. Automatic updater will run and then launch Lawena.
5. Done!

What's new

• Fix Inferno Update breaking Killnotices and Medic HUDs (#103)
• Allow disabling System Look and Feel to mitigate issues like #34 - more details in f56aa5f
• Launcher now requires Java 8.

Raw changes: 4.1.16...4.1.17

Lawena v4.1.16

About this release

You need to download the included package for a clean upgrade. From this version onwards, the automatic update service points to a new URL. This means previous versions won't work when ran from the regular executable. See #94 for details.

Instructions

1. Direct link to install Java: Java for Windows 64bit / Java for Windows 32bit
2. Download lawena-stable-4.1.16.zip below.
3. Extract all files and run lawena.exe
4. Automatic updater will run and then launch Lawena.
5. Done!

What's new

• Move the location of the automatic update files
• Allow some previously locked values to be user-modifiable via the 'Custom Settings' dialog. (#91)
• Provide a new option to allow for tick skipping while generating VDM files, using a command like 'demo_timescale' to reduce the time required to render a VDM segment while using SrcDemo2. (cac6fed)

Raw changes: 4.1.15...4.1.16

Lawena v4.1.15

Updating is broken in this version, please download v4.1.16 or newer.

What's new

• Fixed an issue with Launch4J (tool that generates the .exe launcher) when JRE had versions greater than 99
• Actually fixed launching with default HUD issue (#86)

Raw changes: 4.1.14...4.1.15

Lawena v4.1.14

Known issues

• If you only have the latest Java version installed (1.8.0_101) the launcher will complain due to a bug in the tool that generates it. Please download v4.1.15 instead or get the lawena.exe updated file. (#87)

What's new

• Launcher now requires Java 8 to be installed
• Main menu for Killnotices only and Medic HUDs now has a Recording Tools menu. Thanks again to @kuw for this awesome feature!
• Better VDM generation for users that interact with HLAE or otherwise need to run certain commands just before recording. See #83 and f2dce06 for more info.
• Fixed an issue where using default HUD would break the launch entirely (#84)
• Fixed an issue where negative tick values could be written to generated VDMs

Raw changes: 4.1.13...4.1.14

Lawena v4.1.13

What's new

• Fixes built-in HUDs for the matchmaking update. Source.

Known issues

• [#84] Can't launch the game if using Default HUD (fixed in v4.1.14)

Raw changes: 4.1.12...4.1.13

Lawena v4.1.12

What's new

• Fix timers in included recording HUDs, thanks @kuw
• Half-Life Advanced Effects (HLAE) Support. Check details in the commit message 1c9577e
• Support to add custom settings through a file called custom.cfg. Can be used to override Lawena binds or aliases without them being reverted after an update changes the original files.
• Fix recording slots 16 through 26 not working properly.
• Not forcing a change to read-only configs anymore.

Raw changes: 4.1.11...4.1.12

Lawena v4.1.11

What's new

• Fixes some non-random demo crashes. Lawena will use a copy of your own config.cfg as a base file for settings. It's enabled by default and can be disabled from the Advanced menu, option "Crash Fix".
• Updated the included VPK files.
• Disabling hitsounds will also include the tf_dingalingaling_lasthit cvar.
• Raw changelog: 4.1.10...4.1.11

Lawena v4.1.10

What's new

• Not requiring Steam directory to launch the game anymore
• Allows resizing of custom settings dialog (#72)
• By default, backups are always kept now. They are not deleted when files were successfully restored like before. All backups are saved in your tf folder, they are named using this pattern: lawena-user.timestamp.bak.zip.
• Launcher will try to enforce single instance mode to avoid having two Lawena applications running at the same time.
• Fixed an error when saving settings.
• Raw changelog: 4.1.9...4.1.10
• To skip updates use the lawena.skip-updater.zip file from below.

Lawena v4.1.9

What's new

• Uses cl_autoreload 0 in auto-generated settings, might fix animation issues (#65)
• Removed taunt panel from built-in recording HUDs
• Correctly restores game folders if they are symbolic links (#67)
• Launching game through hl2.exe instead of using Steam to avoid extra launch parameters. Old behavior is available in the Advanced - Launch using Steam menu item (#68)
• Removing -dxlevel if +mat_dxlevel is found in launch parameters (#69)
• Crosshair switch disabler will also disable the crosshair command
• Bumped recording segment limit to 26 (from 16)
• Fixed a potential crash on launch
• Fixed an exception while restoring folders
• Raw changelog: 4.1.8...4.1.9

Optional download

• In addition to the main install, get lawena.skip-updater.zip if you want to jump straight to this version without going through the auto-updater.