Animated screenshots - not modem friendly

[Carotio]

Is this a screenshot thread? Well... yes and no
Is it a video thread? Well, yes and no

It depends on how you look upon it, and since no one else seems to have made one of these threads, I'm gonna do it now.

This is a place where you can post your animated gif files made by several screenshots in a row to illustrate your gaming experience in SH4.
Play the game, find a good angle, remove the dials (best, but not required), then hold down CTRL and click away on F11 as the game and your desired animated scene takes place. You'll now have a series of bmp's in your folder. These obviously have to be converted to gif files and then put in a row in a program. Personally, I use Jasc Animation Shop. I don't know if there's a free program available, so if anyone knows, please share your knowledge.

Please post them within sizelimit 800*600. <-- This may however change, so follow and take part of the discussion in the thread.

Okay, here's the first example:


My first example changed from 800*600 to 400*300, a reduction in file size to app. 1/3

[SteamWake]

No animation here, single frame only...

Might be my firewall, (at work) have others verify.


edit; These work for me at home !

[Task Force]

Veary good, shows up fine for me.

[Gunfighter]

Never tried this but it looks interesting might give it a go Thanks for info

did you check with Admin to see if it was OK as there is a Video thread somewhere.

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Gunfighter

did you check with Admin to see if it was OK as there is a Video thread somewhere.

That's more for posting links to videos and if it got all bloaty, people wouldn't be able to see the nice videos - one of mine is in there . That's the reason I joined subsim in fact. It's all Tex Films' fault.

Nice idea for a thread Carotio.

[Carotio]

I have 4 animated screenshots from this small Pacific Battle. However, I can for now only show 3 of them in full size. The 4th is sized 25.9mb So I can show you three in full size and one small version of 400*300.

Notice that you can see the moon and the sun very close to each other in these shots. It's the first time, I think that I have seen this. Has anyone seen a solar eclipse in the game? Just curious...

EDIT:
I have in order to reduce loading time reduced the dimensions, so that all 4 have 400*300. The original 800*600 is in the dl link.

Second liner 1st shot



Second liner 2nd shot, final blow



First liner 2nd shot, a dud



First liner 3rd shot, final blow


All four shots in full size:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vtzdneyqndm

[Carotio]

Damn

I have quite a strong pc and fair internet connection. Now that I just posted 4 more screenshots, the page loads quite slow.

Hmmm....

Maybe the size limit should just be set to 400*300 then!???
Now that I look at the 4th image in 400*300, I actually think it's detailed enough.

What do you think?

[Syxx_Killer]

Interesting idea, Carotio. Those are some nice shots. However, I don't think you have to continually press Ctrl + F11. I tried it once in SH3, but haven't tried it in SH4. In SH3 you can press something like Ctrl + F12 and the game will continually take screenshots until you press that key combo again. I don't remember the exact combo, though. I think it was F12, but it may be one of the other F buttons.

[Task Force]

Veary good, even with all these animated pics everything loads fast.

[Orion2012]

Interesting. Loads fine for me by the way.

[Rockin Robbins]

Everything looks great here on this shared connection in the slow old USA. I've GOT to find a free program to do that!

Our game plots the moon in the wrong position and with the wrong phase. Amazingly, your shot shows the moon in a nearly plausible phase for its position, a first in my experience! Actually the crescent would be even thinner there, but who are we to quibble with something coincidentally nearly correct?:rotfl:

If the game ever attempts to show a lunar eclipse, how much you want to bet it shows the moon behind the sun?

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Everything looks great here on this shared connection in the slow old USA. I've GOT to find a free program to do that!

Our game plots the moon in the wrong position and with the wrong phase. Amazingly, your shot shows the moon in a nearly plausible phase for its position, a first in my experience! Actually the crescent would be even thinner there, but who are we to quibble with something coincidentally nearly correct?:rotfl:

If the game ever attempts to show a lunar eclipse, how much you want to bet it shows the moon behind the sun?

Il bet my old processor.:rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

Looks good to me. How is this better or more helpful than just a video? Also, Neal has to check on bandwidth I believe.

Cool non-the- less

[Gunfighter]

13/11/08 Removed
just testing it out
EDIT: Well it works I hope this thread will be allowed but as Nisgeis said Its Own Thread.Will remove if anyone not happy with it

[Carotio]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Looks good to me. How is this better or more helpful than just a video? Also, Neal has to check on bandwidth I believe.

Cool non-the- less

About genre, well, I truely think animated gifs are a category in itself. Something like inbetween screenshot and video.

About bandwith, yes, you have a point there, which is why, I encourage a discussion of how large the dimensions may be? 800*600 or half = 400*300
I see on the kb sizes when shrinking the dimensions to half, then the kb size of the gifs go down to about 1/3.

If we settle for 400*300, no problem with me. We can always add a dl link for the large version in each of our posts.

But, I'm grateful to see the positive feedback of this thread, and I hope Neal accepts it, whether in big or small version.