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Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.10.11 17:24:00 - [1] Hey All, I am considering animating the automated territory map as put together by Verite Rendition. First, is there a need/desire for this? Second, has anyone else already done it? Third, I was thinking of using Imagemagick to cut the images into quarters, then mencoder to shove the images into a video file. Anyone think of a better way? -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Contact us in game for ice/rock mining contracts and manufacturing.
Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.10.11 20:09:00 - [2] Edited by: Garat Mant on 11/10/2007 20:12:57 Edited by: Garat Mant on 11/10/2007 20:11:24 Edited by: Garat Mant on 11/10/2007 20:10:29 OK quick and dirty. The North (1.5M) The South (.5M) I used wget to grab the files from sov.eve-dev.net (and eve-files but didn't try them yet). Then mencoder thusly: mencoder mf://.png -mf w=1800:h=2048:fps=25:type=png -vf crop=1800:1024:0:1024,scale=900:512 -ofps 2 -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=5000 -noskip -nosound -o south.avi Switching the crop y coordinate between 0 and 1024 gives you the north or the south view. Decided against quartering to get the 2 main war zones in full. Comments? Flames? Platonic Backrubs? Edit: uhh, it's in x264 so you'll need that codec installed. I forget that everyone doesn't have mplayer installed* -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Contact us in game for ice/rock mining contracts and manufacturing.
Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.10.11 21:03:00 - [3] Originally by: Maar T'Kmel Even better if Flash itself could read and process the data, then you could have nice smooth tweens going day to day. Too many vectors you think? Well, I don't know the first thing about flash. I'm assuming the sheer number of systems/points would overwhelm any desktop PC trying to render the map in realtime. However a pre-rendered vector map would be very nice. -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Contact us in game for ice/rock mining contracts and manufacturing.
Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.10.11 22:10:00 - [4] Originally by: Bish Ounen Very nice. Strange that the colors are different in your animation than they are when I pull up the map. I wonder if there is some kind of script that randomly assigns the colors? I'm using the maps from sov.eve-dev.net/maps - not the ones linked at the top of CAOD. They look slightly different but I found the text easier to read. -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Contact us in game for ice/rock mining contracts and manufacturing.
Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.10.13 04:49:00 - [5] Originally by: Verite Rendition 3 comments: 1) It looks nice. Hopefully this will be something you keep doing. 2) You're using the wrong containers. For H.264 you should be using MKV or MP4 containers; a lot of applications will have trouble with H.264 in an AVI. Similarly, Windows Media Video should be in a WMV container (and while you're at it, it wouldn't hurt to switch to WMV9 for the codec if you can get away with it). 3) You used the wrong map, you're breaking my heart. 3) I've switched to your maps now :-) 1) It's my intention that once I have this working to everyone's satisfaction (ha!) I will add the couple of commands to a cron job and run them daily. 2) Switched to lavc format output in mencoder; wmv now works, but Chribba doesn't allow mp4 uploads so the x264 videos stay as avi for now. Right now I don't know how to do frame transitions in mencoder, my current weapon of choice. If someone knows of a good, command line linux tool that will do this, let me know. -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Contact us in game for ice/rock mining contracts and manufacturing.
Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.10.16 17:52:00 - [6] Updated with Paladin Vent's older maps. -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Recruiting mature players!
Garat Mant Minmatar Charon Research Industries	Posted - 2007.11.27 15:33:00 - [7] I'm updating these manually every week, or by request. If you are an alliance representative and want a specific area, such as your alliance territory, let me know and I'll create a new crop area. -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Recruiting mature players!
Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.12.13 15:14:00 - [8] Anyone know why my last north.wmv got 192,743 hits?!? (normal is a couple of hundred downloads) New versions for 2007-12-13 uploaded. Enjoy. -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Recruiting mature players!
Garat Mant Minmatar Moons of Pluto	Posted - 2007.12.14 16:24:00 - [9] Originally by: K'reemy G'udness Needs more boobs. But the goons are right there. -G -- CEO, Moons Of Pluto industrial corporation. Recruiting mature players!

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