bxt-rs

A few speedrunning and TAS-related tools for Half-Life and mods. Current features:

• Video recording (a successor to hl-capture).
• Commands to play many demos at once (bxt_play_run).
• A useful subset of bxt_taslog when you can't use the one from the original Bunnymod XT.
• bxt_fade_remove.

Started as an experiment to re-architecture Bunnymod XT from scratch with the benefit of hindsight.

Usage

On Linux, load it into HL like you would load regular BXT.

On Windows, rename bxt-rs.dll to BunnymodXT.dll and start HL using the injector (Injector.exe path\to\Half-Life\hl.exe). Running HL on its own and running the injector afterwards is not supported.

To run the bxt-compatibility build together with the original Bunnymod XT (e.g. for capturing TASes):

1. Create a new folder, copy the original BunnymodXT.dll and Injector.exe there.
2. Load Half-Life with bxt-rs as described above.
3. While in the main menu, run the injector in the new folder to inject the original Bunnymod XT.

Building

Linux

1. Install 32-bit libc for linking. On Ubuntu that's libc6-dev-i386.
2. Install stable Rust (for example, via rustup) with the i686-unknown-linux-gnu target.
3. cargo build --target=i686-unknown-linux-gnu

Windows

1. Install stable Rust (for example, via rustup) with the i686-pc-windows-msvc target.
2. cargo build --target=i686-pc-windows-msvc

Windows (cross-compiling from Linux)

1. Install MinGW for the 32-bit target. On Ubuntu that's gcc-mingw-w64-i686.
2. Install stable Rust (for example, via rustup) with the i686-pc-windows-gnu target.
3. cargo build --target=i686-pc-windows-gnu

Documentation

• Contributing: how to add patterns and new functionality
• Design notes

License

Currently GPL v3 or later.