Clip Maker System 0.2

[Moderator]

12th Dec 2015
IcemanBo: Too long as NeedsFix. Rejected.

21:28, 29th Jul 2013
PurgeandFire: At the moment the waits produce a very choppy effect since the wait times are inconsistent. Update it to use a timer instead.

I also really recommend looking into Mag's post as that would be a really good "system". Right now this is a sample. Which is fine, but in my opinion it would be a lot better the way Mag described it.

 

[deathismyfriend]

weres the configurables. also u shouldnt use waits as they are inaccurate.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Wait 0 should work fine.

This doesn't look like much of a system though.

 

[Arhowk]

Wait 0 should work fine.

This doesn't look like much of a system though.

I dont see any system more of a template.

Also, what he mean by wait 0 is inaccurate is that your going to get some random fps between 2 and 5 (changing every frame) :/

Even if u want to do this (which i wouldn't, its like 3/4 of the map size) you'd have to loop it with a timer32

 

[gorillabull]

this is a good idea

 

[Adiktuz]

Is it just me or did he actually just pasted some kinda trigger template?

btw, in case you didn't notice, cinematic mode makes the whole map visible for the time-being, so afterwards, when player's look at their minimaps or browse the map, it would seem like they have already been in the whole map (you see where buildings are etc)

Just use letterbox mode... Cinematic mode is basically for cinematic-only maps...

 

[Geries]

You should make a trigger to turn on/off cinematic mode, set up timer periods, ONE FILE PATH, which of all other image sequence paths could be generated.. Waits shouldn't be used, use timer. Also, warcraft does not unload files, so all image frame will be kept in the memory (probably as raw image data or both) so that takes up a lot memory after many different images displayed. This is not even good as a template since the coding is not easily changeable. Keep in mind tha the main idea of the whole in-game movie works for short (few sec max) mini-movies.

 

[Lambdadelta]

Ahahaa. I wanted to do this ages ago. I just never bothered to. I actually requested someone to do it as a joke in a request thread. It's funny to see someone actually have bothered to put it into a wc3 map

 

[Magtheridon96]

I made a Video system one time. All I needed were test images. It's far too impractical because of the size limitations

Just look at the size of this map, it's over 3 megabytes!

 

[jonhysone]

Just look at the size of this map, it's over 3 megabytes!

Hehehe , It's because The images quality is medium , Also , This map doesn't have any goal but showing how clips work in warcraft , So why not add many pictures?
Thank you all for replies

 

[Magtheridon96]

You know, you could actually turn this into a decent system for having GIFs in Warcraft III.

Don't let it go and die as a template that may as well be a tutorial, make this a system that lets the user do something like this:

• Example
  • Events
    • Map Initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- ------------------- --------
    • -------- Create first video --------
    • -------- ------------------- --------
    • Set VideoSystem_Name = "gay"
    • Set VideoSystem_FrameCount = 4
    • Set VideoSystem_FrameRate = 0.05
    • Set VideoSystem_Frame[0] = shit1.blp
    • Set VideoSystem_Frame[1] = shit2.blp
    • Set VideoSystem_Frame[2] = shit3.blp
    • Set VideoSystem_Frame[3] = shit4.blp
    • Trigger - Execute trigger CreateVideo <gen> (ignoring conditions)
    • -------- ------------------- --------
    • -------- ------------------- --------
    • Set VideoSystem_PlayX = 0
    • Set VideoSystem_PlayY = 128
    • Set VideoSystem_PlayLooping = True
    • Set VideoSystem_Name = "gay"
    • Trigger - Execute trigger PlayVideo <gen> (ignoring conditions)

THAT would be a system.
A really cool one too.

The PlayVideo trigger would play VideoSystem_Name. When CreateVideo is called, you would store the given data in FrameCount, FrameCount and the Frame array in a hashtable using the VideoSystem_Name variable as a key. (StringHash, or whatever you people do in GUI~)

It would be very, very practical with tiny images~

 

[Geries]

Ahahaa. I wanted to do this ages ago. I just never bothered to. I actually requested someone to do it as a joke in a request thread. It's funny to see someone actually have bothered to put it into a wc3 map

I made it.. a quite long while ago, however that was operating with warcraft on-terrain images. I was trying to play a 1:20 hours long movie at 25 FPS or so, but it crashed after 1 minute due file leaks.

 

[Lambdadelta]

I made it.. a quite long while ago, however that was operating with warcraft on-terrain images. I was trying to play a 1:20 hours long movie at 25 FPS or so, but it crashed after 1 minute due file leaks.

No surprises there

I wonder if you could import every common colour into a map and try to play a short scene in a way similar to this. That would be nifty.

 

[Doomlord]

Great to see a new guy coming up with quite a potential system ^^

 

[Geries]

No surprises there

I wonder if you could import every common colour into a map and try to play a short scene in a way similar to this. That would be nifty.

Yup, but jass code itself also takes memory.. Thats why I couldn't keep single player warcraft instances communicate based on for long..

Depends how much colours, frames you store.. small palette size can compress quite well

 

[Almia]

Weird but cool

I once wanted to create a Star Wars cinematic made out of ASCII characters, inspired from Batch' Star Wars

 

[jonhysone]

@Geries ,
For the next version , I planned before to attach photos with the ground and creating cameras then panning these cameras to the photos which are on the ground .But this would take a lot of map space . And Of course , Next update will absolutely contain timers , with no frame leaks .
@Mag
I don't understand the point of X and Y there . As I said , Making photos on the ground take much of space on the map Unless if I remove the photo and create another in the same place . I will try this , Thank you .

@ALL !!!
Thank you for replies .

 

[Magtheridon96]

X and Y represent the position.

I am aware that using large pictures will take up a lot of space here and is impractical. You can use small pictures and make in-game animated gifs instead

 

[jonhysone]

Thank you for the info . I will try to make so system .