OntyTask features an input capture and playback engine designed for both standard desktop tasks and modern 3D games.
In standard desktop applications, mouse movements and clicks rely on absolute (X, Y) screen pixel coordinates.
3D games (such as Roblox, Minecraft, or first-person titles) operate differently:
- The game hides and locks the mouse cursor in the center of the screen.
- The game camera rotates based on relative movement deltas (
dx, dy) read directly from the mouse hardware. - Standard macro tools that only update cursor coordinates fail to rotate the camera when the cursor is locked.
OntyTask captures and plays back actions using two complementary systems:
- Desktop Input Capture: Records clicks, keystrokes, dragging, and mouse wheel scrolls with millisecond precision.
- Raw Input Stream for 3D Camera: Listens to raw motion deltas directly from your mouse sensor. Even when the cursor is centered or locked in a 3D game, camera turns and pans are captured cleanly.
- High-Resolution Drag Tracking: When dragging with mouse buttons held, movements are tracked with high temporal resolution to maintain smooth tracking paths.
Standard operating system sleep functions can introduce small timing variations (10-15 ms).
OntyTask uses an adaptive hybrid timing loop:
- Longer pauses (>20 ms): Yields execution to the operating system to maintain near 0% CPU usage.
- Short intervals (<2 ms): Uses high-resolution performance counters (
QueryPerformanceCounter) to execute clicks and key sequences at the exact millisecond recorded.
You can adjust playback speed anytime under Menu -> Speed:
- 0.5x, 0.75x: Slows down playback (helpful for debugging complex workflows).
- 1x (Normal): Exact real-time speed.
- 2x, 5x, 10x: Speeds up execution proportionately.
- 100x Turbo: Blazing fast playback while preserving drag fidelity.
- Max Speed (Instant): Eliminates delay intervals for instant execution.
- Custom: Set any multiplier from
0.01xto1000x.