@Videogamer555 (View Post)
Your script is configured to run on alt+r, it works for me. It will fail if caps lock or num lock is on. This is because the tpt.register_keypress is pretty bad, almost every script that listens for ctrl has the same problem as yours.
I recommend switching to the new event api: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Wiki/W/Lua_API:Event.html
IsRecording=false
FirstFrameCaptured=false

function KeyPress(key, scan, rep, shift, ctrl, alt)
if key == 114 and ctrl and not rep then
if IsRecording==false then
if tpt.record(true)~=0 then
FirstFrameCaptured=false
IsRecording=true
end
else
tpt.record(false)
IsRecording=false
end
end
return true
end

function FrameFunc()
if IsRecording==true then
if FirstFrameCaptured==false then
FirstFrameCaptured=true
tpt.set_pause(0)
end
end
end

event.register(event.tick, FrameFunc)
event.register(event.keypress, KeyPress)

Your script is exactly what I intended to happen when I removed the r shortcut. It's fairly simple to create a Lua script to do recordings, and the players that actually want to do recordings are probably the same as the players who know how to Lua script and put together all the recorded parts with ffmpeg.

Don't try to come up with theories about why I removed the 'r' shortcut. I've stated the real reason in the past. Perhaps I didn't state it clearly enough. First, it was too easy to press with one key. If users accidentally started recording, it would fill up their disk very quickly, and this did actually happen before. I'm sure it also happened to many other users who didn't post about it on the forums.

Many users would find the recording function by accident, and try to ask the forums how to use it. They would get recommended to use a script.

So if it confuses and causes problems for users, and requires a script anyway, the obvious solution is to just require the record function to be a script too. The new record function also has the benefit of not spamming your data directory with recordings, and you can do multiple recordings in one session more easily without the .ppm IDs starting where the last one left off. In the future, I could embed a script like this into TPT. But I was actually thinking of just embedding ffmpeg and calling it via c++ to make gifs.

I also don't like the suggestion that I removed a feature because I thought it was useless. I hate removing features, and often ask other devs to add them back. I don't remove things for no reason, I had good reason to remove that key shortcut.