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Uzu Bash

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questions about in-game movies
« on: August 11, 2017, 01:04:22 am »

I tried to capture a sequence in adventure mode with the game's movie utility, but playback only displayed a few flickering rows of characters in a disarranged interface. Are there some requirements taken for granted by those who use this, or does nobody use it because of such requirements?

Can this be used in adventurer mode?  Can this work with graphical tilesets? Does it require a certain resolution or window size?
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Re: questions about in-game movies
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2017, 03:16:47 pm »

Never got the DF movie to work right, there's a good chance it might even be broken. But I suggest giving Gifcam a go works great for me! Now there is a lot of keylogged clones of it, so I'll link the developers page. Though the website looks funny, but do your research before downloading of course.
http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
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Re: questions about in-game movies
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2017, 04:43:38 pm »

Brokenness...Well, there's lot of old movies on dfma, at least. Those work fine, but never used this feature tbh.

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Re: questions about in-game movies
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2017, 08:50:03 pm »

Worked nicely in the arena for me. Sladog demonstration: http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-2810-ratatatatatatatatatatatatat
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Re: questions about in-game movies
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2017, 12:06:52 am »

Worked nicely in the arena for me. Sladog demonstration: http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-2810-ratatatatatatatatatatatatat
I tried in arena and only the menu and map displayed correctly, I still got flickering blocks of characters for the local area display. Do you use the standard ASCII?

Never got the DF movie to work right, there's a good chance it might even be broken. But I suggest giving Gifcam a go works great for me! Now there is a lot of keylogged clones of it, so I'll link the developers page. Though the website looks funny, but do your research before downloading of course.
http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
Very nice utility, thanks for the link! Unfortunately my capture runs over the frame limit, though I could get under if I could cut frames.
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Re: questions about in-game movies
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2017, 06:48:43 am »

Worked nicely in the arena for me. Sladog demonstration: http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-2810-ratatatatatatatatatatatatat
I tried in arena and only the menu and map displayed correctly, I still got flickering blocks of characters for the local area display. Do you use the standard ASCII?


Yes. I never use graphic packs.
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