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FurFuznel wrote on Thu, 05 June 2003 02:34

I agree that the pictures appear to have come from Xtreme Borders but I think that freakyboy was asking what I was going to ask... What did you use to combine all those plots?

Ah yes, well you can dump a .bmp file of each year, turn that into a gif and no doubt you can find a program on the web to make an animated gif out of those. Can't give you any name of such a program, a long time since I used one, but they can't be that hard to find. I did this with Stars! Notebook .bmp dumps before Xtreme Borders was out.
Or maybe you can just use the "Movie Images" option in Xtreme Borders itself?

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I am doing one of those exceptions right now. During the game Partners Back in Time I am hosting (and playing an observer race) and have access to everyone's turn files. Therefore, I am going to be creating maps of the WHOLE universe using each years data, and then at the end of the game (if I can figure out how to animate it), show the progression of the Universe from start to finish.

Yup, that was one of the exceptions I had in mind, you're players should be very gratefull that you are going though such an effort!
Take a look at Xtreme Borders, in the Tools menu you'll find the option I mentioned above, seems you only need to generate the .p?? files for each race in the right directory and run the "Batch Image Processor". Maybe you're lucky and you can find a command line option to automaticly dump each .p?? file ...

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Micha basicly got it right , there's ~160 images, one for each turn (except for a couple where I forgot ). I used irfanview to convert all the .bmp to .gif and CoffeeCup GIF Animator to animate it.

Both are nifty programs that CoffeeCup can also turn .gif into flash animations.

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Micha wrote Or maybe you can just use the "Movie Images" option in Xtreme Borders itself? Take a look at Xtreme Borders, in the Tools menu you'll find the option I mentioned above, seems you only need to generate the .p?? files for each race in the right directory and run the "Batch Image Processor". Maybe you're lucky and you can find a command line option to automaticly dump each .p?? file ...

There is a command line option to dump the .p?? files, but I never saw a movie option in Xtreme Borders, is there a new version? The version I have only saves the map as a .bmp with the year in the name.

Fun Game:
Can you guess what PRT each race is? Winner will get a fancy prize

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There is a command line option to dump the .p?? files, but I never saw a movie option in Xtreme Borders, is there a new version? The version I have only saves the map as a .bmp with the year in the name.

Looking at 1.7.0, I recently (a week ago) downloaded it again, including a new update (beta).
Didn't test it so not sure if it works ...

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Fun Game: Can you guess what PRT each race is? Winner will get a fancy prize

Hehe, that sounds like fun, but not that easy without knowing a bit more how you got the data on this (all players files or just the scanning of one race? the year the gif starts?), but looks to me the red one is an IT?

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mch

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Micha wrote on Wed, 04 June 2003 18:49

Take a look at Xtreme Borders, in the Tools menu you'll find the option I mentioned above, seems you only need to generate the .p?? files for each race in the right directory and run the "Batch Image Processor". Maybe you're lucky and you can find a command line option to automaticly dump each .p?? file ...

I assume that you are joking with us?
If not, what version of Xtreme Borders are you looking at? I am using 1.6.8 because I was having trouble downloading the 1.7 beta. There is no "Tools" menu item and definitely no "Batch Image Processor"!


AH! You replied while I was replying! I will have to wait until I can download version 1.7 beta then.

Shadallark

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FurFuznel wrote on Thu, 05 June 2003 08:48

I assume that you are joking with us?

I would never do that!

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If not, what version of Xtreme Borders are you looking at? I am using 1.6.8 because I was having trouble downloading the 1.7 beta. There is no "Tools" menu item and definitely no "Batch Image Processor"! AH! You replied while I was replying! I will have to wait until I can download version 1.7 beta then.

If you can't download it I can email it to you if you like. It's 105kB.

This is what the page Pirate Retreat says:

Pirate Lord wrote:

Xtreme Borders is currently being worked on by our scientists. Planned improvements are: Automatically produce images for a game that uses a backup value greater then one (i.e. for animated maps).

That feature seems now to be in place (but I haven't tested it yet).

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mch

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dont want to steal your thunder, but i did this some weeks ago and posted it....

if you want to watch another example, go here:
http://www.il4robert.de/dogs.html

its also XB and for animation i used jasc animation shop 3,
there is a free version on the internet...

hope to see more of these animations soon!

have fun

robert

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