automatic screenshots
Tue, 12/16/2008 - 09:58 — maho
Does anybody knows if there is some utility to make screenshots based on savegames (or game log) using some tileset (like trident)?
I'm thinking about feature, which would do automatic screenshots of game, and let them see on webpage to given user, to let him click on screenshot and write history page with this screenshot included.
Hummmm...
Most interesting idea lately here. I'll take a look at savefile's structure ( so far I only used firt few lines to edit :D) and at png generating mechanisms. If they appear clear to me, I'll take care of the project :)
This would be great. I think
This would be great. I think we chatted about this online a couple of weeks ago. Being able to get a full replay of the entire game (fog of war removed) after it is all over. Would be a big movie though :-)
No, I'm not talking about
No, I'm not talking about replay after game, but screenshot of your view during game, without removing for of war. Such utility which let you attach screenshot of your game (let's say 30 turns ago) to history page, without need to uploading files etc...
progress scores
Added to this idea, I think it would be nice to have the progress scores vs time graph as a global summary of the game. Are you storing the civscore.log file Maho?
yeah, it would also be nice,
yeah, it would also be nice, yes, I'm storing civscore.log (I think :D)
So, if there is no simpler
So, if there is no simpler way to do it, I can write an script for drawing such graph from a log file. All you have to do is to send me one of those files to check the data format. Well, if someone tells me how the scores are exactly calculated I'll finish the job faster, because I'm a bit lazy to surf the server source code ;-p
There was a post about
There was a post about setting up a server on the freeciv forums:
http://forum.freeciv.org/viewt...
At then end there are some hints about creating pubserver style animated replays.
Well, it's not exactly what
Well, it's not exactly what I want.
I know these animations - I don't like them - unreadable dot wars :).
I want let's say Elrik when want to write history page, to click on 'my last photos' - and he see screenshots from his game, turn by turn. Of course not screenshots, as he didn't shot any screen, but something which looks exactly like he did the screenshot using trident tileset.
So when he click on one of the screenshot, he has an lik there "write history page based on this screenshot" , he clicks on it, and he starts post with screenshot attached ....
If you get gifs like halfway
If you get gifs like halfway the page here: http://forum.freeciv.org/viewt... I think it might still be worth a try, even though they are not very neat graphics. I think it might still give a nice view of the development of the nations in a LT game...
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history
I used to love those pubserver aftergame history maps in 1.14 games. I actually created a similar gif from LTex minimap screenshots for 30 turns or so. It worked since I could see everyone's borders. If you want I can upload that gif animation here (though the game is still ongoing). But it would be great if this was done automatically.