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Helium Pond
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Los Anheles, California, Good Ole U S of A
Nov 1999
time: 05:13
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Can someone help me with this? What I want to do is a) take a screen shot of the game from maximum zoomed-back mode (ctrl+x) at the end of every turn of a game, which is the first thing I don't know how to do, and then b) combine all those frames into something like an animated .gif file, which is the second thing I don't know how to do. Basically, I want to make a version of the end-game replay, but a lot cooler. When you zoom all the way out, you lose the border information, but you see all the cities and units as little colored dots. It's cool, and I'd love to figure out a way to animate it. Especially in a MP game, wouldn't it be cool to see this after it was all over? Can someone help me with this? Again, two things: 1) how do I make a SMAC screen shot, and 2) how can I combine screen shots into an animated .gif, or something else that will animate the frames?
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Helium Pond
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Los Anheles, California, Good Ole U S of A
Nov 1999
time: 05:13
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What is this clipboard thing everyone's always talking about? I've worked with computers for most of my life, and I feel dumb admitting it, but I have no idea what the clipboard is. How do I look at it? Where is it?
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Helium Pond
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Los Anheles, California, Good Ole U S of A
Nov 1999
time: 05:13
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Well, I don't think I need to use GIFs anymore anyway. I found some shareware GIF creaters, and it looks like GIFs usually don't have the kind of frame count that I'll need to make these animations. So I think I need to use an AVI maker, but I seem to have a problem with writing AVIs. All the shareware I've found to write AVIs give me errors. One of them says something like "the action AVIFileOpen doesn't have a handler in the registry", which I have no idea how to address. I've tried downloading lots of Codecs, I've tried downloading new versions of Windows Media Player (which for some reason made SMAC start crashing), and I've use the File Types control panel to edit, remove, and replace the file associations with the .avi extension, and nothing works. Can anyone give me advice, or refer me to some website that can help?
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drewski
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Minneapolis, MN, USA
Apr 2000
time: 05:13
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quote:
Originally posted by Purple on 10-31-2000 04:38 PM
... You can select (highlight) something and Copy (ctrl-C) it to the Clipboard. Then you can Paste (ctrl-P)...
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Just a word of caution. I believe that in most Windows applications, ctrl-P is the shortcut for Print whereas ctrl-V is the shortcut for Paste (which, of course, seems obvious as "V" is the ??th letter of "paste"  Gotta' just love Windows )
In many cases, you can alternatively use ctrl-insert for Copy, shift-delete for Cut, and shift-insert for Paste.
Edit: having a "rolleyes" tag immediately followed by the end of a parenthetical respose yielded :rolleyes followed by a smiley -- not the desired effect.
Edit: Grrr! I messed up with my "correction". In the process, I posted a separate entry and still didn't fix this. I think I might finally have this right now.
[This message has been edited by drewski (edited November 02, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by drewski (edited November 02, 2000).]
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Helium Pond
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Los Anheles, California, Good Ole U S of A
Nov 1999
time: 05:13
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Well, I've got my bugs sorted out in a very klugey way: I did something I didn't understand to the registry, and now I can write .AVI files. Scary, but as long as it works. I'm using a shareware program called ScreenTaker for the screen shots, I think I looked at SnagIt and it didn't work on SMAC...
Thanks for the suggestions, y'all... now maybe in half a year, hopefully, I'll have finished a PBEM game and be able to produce a cool little .AVI from it...
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31-10-2000 03:44
I'm having much trouble. Please forgive me. 
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