Do people still do these?
Here’s mine anyway, I like seeing these because progress is fascinating.
Go play & vote on Spinstar HERE!
Do people still do these?
Here’s mine anyway, I like seeing these because progress is fascinating.
Go play & vote on Spinstar HERE!
Yup, got another timelapse up! This time, instead of using Chronolapse or FFMPEG to generate the video, I ended up using Blender instead. Let us know if it’s an improvement compared to the other videos in the playlist below.
Here’s our development process for hack.source.net, where I end up going circles debugging a ton of networking problems. Then a blur at the end where I drastically improve the graphics in the game. Ah, classic game jam panics.
Hey guys. Out of curiosity, what are some alternatives to timelapse generating softwares, such as Chronolapse? I’m a bit unsatisfied with the video quality that Chronolapse generates (which I know, it’s just FFMPEG, and I could try to change its settings), and figured I’d try something different for the upcoming Ludum Dare.
Thanks in advance!
Woah Ludum Dare great fun videogames stream development tools tools workflow timelapse snowman potato etc etc.
Let’s get to the point.
I’ll probably be joining the compo, and will switch to the jam if I need more time. Tools:
As for a timelapse, I’ll be using Chronolapse, assuming it works. It keeps telling me it doesn’t have write permission, even though I’ve given full permissions to everything for the target folder, and ran Chronolapse as administrator. If anyone has a solution, please comment!
Hoping to do better than last time. Ratings weren’t good, and I procrastinated posting them, so here:
Learned a ton about Unity platformers though, which led me to fix the super annoying “I’m stuck on this tile wtf” bug and optimize collisions at the same time. It even got me to start a Github project to make Unity assets intended for creating platformer games, which I’ll be using if I create a platformer this time around.
Anyways, theme dare post wordpress vote potatosalad hope ludum snowman and good luck!
I will be writing a full post-mortem doo dah tomorrow, as at the moment it’s rather late (yet again, if you’ve read my previous posts before).
Anyway, after spending too long dilly dallying, I’ve finally rendered out my creation timelapse:
Created using chronolapse and Sony Vegas. Unfortunately, not everything was captured, but anything that wasn’t here was recorded in a lower quality for backup, not that you’re actually interested.
If you’re feeling nice, or if you even like the look of my game, please feel free to vote on it here. I am personally trying to vote on as many as I can but with a-level exams coming up soon it’s kind of a hurry for me :/
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=20850
Many Ludum Dare participants like to create time-lapse videos that show the actual development of their entries. I thought that was a cool idea, and decided to use Chronolapse to capture and encode my video. Chronolapse is stable, has a simple interface, and even has some advanced features like dual monitor support and picture-in-picture. But the software lacks in one major area: video quality.
While recording, Chronolapse takes periodic frame captures from your screen or webcam. Then, when you’re done, you can use the tool to compile the image sequence into a video that can be uploaded to YouTube, for example. Unfortunately, there are no settings to tweak the video output quality, and the quality is pretty bad.
The simplest solution I could find is to download a separate tool called ffmpeg to do the encoding.
Here’s how to do it:
1) Use Chronolapse to create a sequence of images in a folder somewhere.
2) Download ffmpeg and extract it.
3) Find the encoder executable ffmpeg.exe in the bin folder.
4) Rename all the images in your time-lapse sequence to a format that ffmpeg can recognize:
5) Place a copy of ffmpeg.exe in the same folder as your image sequence, or ensure that the executable is in the Windows path.
6) Open a command window where the image sequence is, and enter the command:
ffmpeg -r 20 -i “img (%d).png” -q:v 1 -b:v 1500k timelapse.mp4
7) After processing for some time, you should have a new video file of much higher quality than what Chronolapse produces. Unless you have the correct codecs installed, this will not play. If you’re having any problems, try the VLC Media Player.
8) Profit!
To see an example of higher video quality in action, see the time-lapse video link on my entry page.
Have fun!
This will be my first game jam, and hopefully also my first non-mod, non-prototype game.
This Week
My Tools
My hardware:
Warm-up
For my warm-up a theme generator gave me a (cliché-ish) theme: Post-Apocalyptic Steam Punk. But I vowed to use it so I will.
Basic idea: A 2D sidescroller where you have to use nuclear waste to mutate plants, animals and NPCs in order to solve puzzles involving steam engines. Don’t know if I have enough time for something like this, but I want to go through the whole process once so I might make one short level, without tutorial. I will post it when it’s done, if it’s done.
One last thing
One last thing: Good luck and above all, have fun, my dear opponents!
This will be my fourth Ludum Dare! Just as always I’m looking forward to a weekend of no sleep and lot’s fun. ;]
Weapons of Choice
Language: Flash ActionScript3
IDE: FlashDevelop
Graphics: Paint.net
Engine: FlashPunk (with some personal changes)
Additional Library: Polygonal Data Structures
Additional Software: Chronolapse
Workspace: ASUS i3 4gb laptop with Hanspree 22″ LCD monitor for an extended desktop
(Yes, that is a paper Creeper)
I have my monitors configured so that my second monitor is to the upper left of my primary monitor. But when it takes screenshots in dual monitor mode, it acts as if the second monitor is on the right, so I just get a screenshot of my screen plus an extra 1600×1200 black area to the right.
Is there any solution or do I need to move my monitor to the right side?
Wish I would’ve tried this a week ago.
Or alternatively, is there a better timelapse capture program that can handle this situation?
Get your weapons ready! Get equipped with:
Tools I’ll be using partially, wholly, or not at all..
blecki’s jileed (mapping)
http://jemgine.omnisu.com/
drpetter’s sfxr (sound effects)
http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/project_sfxr.html
drpetter’s musagi (music)
http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/project_musagi.html
keeyai’s chronolapse (timelapse)
http://keeyai.com/projects-and-releases/chronolapse/
someone else’s paint.net (image editing)
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html