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Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:29 am
by pixartist
Yes the basic movie makin function is still in there!!

just use
-> System.regularScreenshots = 1
to record a screenshot every tick! after that you can use any free movie makin tool to fuse the screenshots together to one movieclip! this way you can easily record VERY complex scenes in the background and make a smooth movie afterwards.

i did a quicksearch and found a shareware tool that can make a movie from jpg's and other image formats: http://www.brothersoft.com/jpgavi-17340.html

there are probably several more tools out there, some of them freeware

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:26 am
by pixartist
[youtube]1adKZWzRseI[/youtube]
[youtube]60c2ZTCmgEo[/youtube]

just made those 2

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:49 am
by KarateBrot
thats awesome. i think i'll try this tomorrow :clap:

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Keys.bind("ctrl alt R",{ System.regularScreenshots == 0 ? {System.regularScreenshots = 1} : {System.regularScreenshots = 0} })


i copied this code into the console so now i have a key combo to turn it on and off

CTRL + ALT + R - Toggle recording On/Off

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:10 am
by niffirg1
So all you do is type system screenshots = 1 into the console and bam you got a butt load of screenshots and from there you turn it into a movie

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:34 am
by Mystery
C:\Documents and Settings\peter\My Documents\Algodoo\screenshots
copy and paste into console "~"
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System.regularScreenshots = 1

To start recording

copy and paste into console "~"
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System.regularScreenshots = 1

To stop recording.

Although KarateBrot's code is far more superior.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:06 pm
by Physicsguy
Wow, pixartist, how did you make all that water not lag!? Do you just have a supercomputer, or something else?

> Very cool! <

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:17 pm
by KarateBrot
Physicsguy wrote:Wow, pixartist, how did you make all that water not lag!? Do you just have a supercomputer, or something else?

> Very cool! <


no it took him about 20 minutes to run the simulation. every timestep a screenshot will be taken and if you make a video out of it with 100 frames per second (because of 100Hz simulation frequency) it will look completely smooth.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:40 pm
by Physicsguy
Oh yeah because of the lag it also lags the screenshots!! Clever!

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:49 pm
by 4000a
pixartist wrote:i did a quicksearch and found a shareware tool that can make a movie from jpg's and other image formats: http://www.brothersoft.com/jpgavi-17340.html

there are probably several more tools out there, some of them freeware

:idea:
I am making a player for these movies
I should be done in a couple of days

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:42 pm
by standardtoaster
Will it be cross-platform? Would I be able to use it on mac? If not that's fine, my current screenrecorder, screenflow, gets a pretty good fps.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:36 pm
by RA2lover
JpgAvi is still an external tool.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:06 pm
by Ian151
Wow! I cannot thank you enough pixartist! I'm going to try this very soon! I might have something interesting to film soon... I'll have to think about it. Wonderful! :thumbup:

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:06 am
by Laraso
I don't see why you guys are so happy about this. All I see is Algodoo taking a bunch of pictures, saving them to my hard drive, then me having to download an EXTERNAL tool to put them ALL together into a movie, then having to delete the hundreds, maybe even thousands of pictures that Algodoo just saved. Not very revolutionary. :yawn:

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:33 am
by standardtoaster
Well at least you get the exact frames of the simulation instead of whatever FPS you would get with a screenrecorder. :/

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:29 pm
by pixartist
Laraso wrote:I don't see why you guys are so happy about this. All I see is Algodoo taking a bunch of pictures, saving them to my hard drive, then me having to download an EXTERNAL tool to put them ALL together into a movie, then having to delete the hundreds, maybe even thousands of pictures that Algodoo just saved. Not very revolutionary. :yawn:

Okay if you wanna be a *** about it, did you read the title? It says RECORD WITHOUT EXTERNAL TOOL... not convert without external tool. If you don't like this feature, then either make a better suggestion or GET THE *** OUT

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:01 pm
by Laraso
pixartist wrote:Okay if you wanna be a bitch about it, did you read the title? It says RECORD WITHOUT EXTERNAL TOOL... not convert without external tool. If you don't like this feature, then either make a better suggestion or GET THE FUCK OUT

Your not recording movies, your taking pictures. The movie recording takes place using the external tool, you aren't recording anything using this method, just taking snapshots. But by request from the author, I shall now leave. :angel:

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:25 pm
by Jrv
pixartist wrote:Okay if you wanna be a bitch about it, did you read the title? It says RECORD WITHOUT EXTERNAL TOOL... not convert without external tool. If you don't like this feature, then either make a better suggestion or GET THE FUCK OUT


Wow...real mature there. Don't burst you blood vessels kid. :roll:

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:17 am
by RicH
Laraso wrote:I don't see why you guys are so happy about this. All I see is Algodoo taking a bunch of pictures, saving them to my hard drive, then me having to download an EXTERNAL tool to put them ALL together into a movie, then having to delete the hundreds, maybe even thousands of pictures that Algodoo just saved. Not very revolutionary. :yawn:

But it sure does work! :thumbup:

And I don't see why it's so hard to get an external tool to put it all together. The hell, you can even use WMM for it. Either you are really lazy, or just plain stupid.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:27 am
by Jrv
The point he's trying to make is that if you have to use an external tool to put the images together, you might as well just use an external program to record it, as it's actually easier and less time consuming than the method proposed in this thread. The only use I can thing of for this is for recording incredibly laggy scenes at a viewable framerate. Other than that, Laroso is completely right. And he also presented his opinion much more maturely than pixarist, who turned to childish insults and overly defensive behavior towards an almost imminent response from the first logical person to find this thread. I would have posted the same thing if I found this thread sooner. They say the true colors of a person are shown in times of hardship, and I believe the same can be said for forum behavior. The true colors of a person are shown in his responses to controversial opinions, and pixarist has shown everyone today that he's just an immature little boy with a temper tantrum and a lack of basic civilized communication skills. I reported your post, but based on the lack of moderation lately, I'm certain it will be ignored.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:07 am
by RicH
When I record videos for Algodoo/Phun, the result always comes out crappy. Frames skipping, low quality etc. So this actually proves much better for me.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:09 am
by Jrv
Really? What program do you use? Fraps works perfectly fine for me.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:31 am
by RicH
JrvUnleashed wrote:Really? What program do you use? Fraps works perfectly fine for me.

Fraps is great. I once used it. I just have a crappy computer XD

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:38 pm
by kilebantick
standardtoaster wrote:Well at least you get the exact frames of the simulation instead of whatever FPS you would get with a screenrecorder. :/

Just set fraps to nosync. I have recorded crysis videos with thousands of barrals and vehicles exploding using fraps, all without lag in video :)

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:55 pm
by KarateBrot
kilebantick wrote:
standardtoaster wrote:Well at least you get the exact frames of the simulation instead of whatever FPS you would get with a screenrecorder. :/

Just set fraps to nosync. I have recorded crysis videos with thousands of barrals and vehicles exploding using fraps, all without lag in video :)


but with thousands of water particles (for example 10,000) in phun you can't record the scene in 100% realtime because it lags. but if you get screenshots on every frame it looks like 100% realtime after you make a movie of it.

Re: Record movies with phun - WITHOUT external tool!!

PostPosted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:00 pm
by StephenAlverez
But how do i make them into a movie and not a slideshow?