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[Jackalope]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>You mean what's the game gonna be like inside the mountain fortress?  Or what's the dragon gonna be like?  I could make an inside movie.</STRONG>

Well, both! I meant actually the mountain fortress but I kinda wanna see the dragon destroy the rest of the army. Sure, make some inside movies if it takes like only 4 seconds but don't if it takes lots of coding or whatever. You need your time to work on the actual game.

[Toady One]

Okay, I'll be relaxed about it.  Next time I'm working with a larger city in testing, I'll try to remember press the movie capture button  Might be a while before I'm at that point again -- doing microlevel stuff now that doesn't need the big city complications.

[Jackalope]

Will players be able to record movies of their mighty dwarves laying the smackdown on dragons or is it just something for testing?

[Toady One]

I don't see any reason why not -- it would be good for debugging!  I should probably get the file format to be smaller though.  There's a ton of redundant info in those files.

[X]

zlib

X

[Toady One]

Cool.  On top of that, I just saved each frame for expediency -- it would be easy to switch over to changing cell changes if the cell changelist is smaller than a frame would be.  That would probably take most of these movies down to 10%-20% of the size.

Edit:  looks like compression should do even better -- I'm getting 8megs down to 70KB now.  We'll see if it lasts through the implementation.

[ September 04, 2004: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[Jackalope]

8 megs to 70kb? Sweet... Best feature evar!

[Toady One]

Thank master X for that.  Like I said, this was only a test and I'm not sure what the real ratio will be from zlib, but it should be something very close to that.

[X]

Is this using deflate() or just the WinRar guestimate? Anyway...

X

(gets back to writing essay)

[Toady One]

This was only the rarstimate.

[Toady One]

Now with deflate we are averaging 75-80KB for 13 sec, so not bad...  and that's saving every single frame (1000/13 secs).

[ September 14, 2004: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[Demon]

But when will the game be done!?     :p

[Toady One]

Eight years.

[Captain_Action]

Human or dog years?  

[X]

Giant tortoise. But seriously, the Toad makes good progress. I, by contrast, have done nothing of note for the past 2 weeks.

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