Questions About The Powder Toy Frame Recorder
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Here are a few questions regarding to the powder toy frame recorder (which is activated by pressing 'R'):
1. Is 'PPM' actually the right type of format the recorder should do? I mean it is hard to convert and use PPM files for stop motion videos & GIFs.
2. Will the recorder be faster? It is pretty slow, and pretty hard to make a useful stop motion.
3. Will the recorder get an update in the future? A couple of nice ideas for a new update is to maybe make the recorder more faster & make it save in PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP or any other popular and easy to use image formats.
Thanks for reading, and if there is something that you think I didn't know about the recorder, tell me as well as answering the questions :)
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I have an online gif maker
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@thepowderdustflame (View Post)
1. PPM is right, anything else like png would take to long to make and be laggy, even laggier than you say already. PPM is a simple format the can just easily and quickly be written. there is a program to convert it to a gif, I can't remember what it's called, but it's simple to use
2. ^
3. ^^, and I will probably update it to only work from lua because of the huge amounts of spam and the fact that most people don't know what PPM even is, and maybe save the files in the /recordings folder or something. -
@thepowderdustflame (View Post)
There are command-line programs that can chop up images into videos, such as ffmpeg. -
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@thepowderdustflame (View Post)
1. PPM is right, anything else like png would take to long to make and be laggy, even laggier than you say already. PPM is a simple format the can just easily and quickly be written. there is a program to convert it to a gif, I can't remember what it's called, but it's simple to use
2. ^
3. ^^, and I will probably update it to only work from lua because of the huge amounts of spam and the fact that most people don't know what PPM even is, and maybe save the files in the /recordings folder or something.1. I use a batch action in Photoshop. Not too fast, but it works.
3. No, it should be either a hotkey or a console command. What about people* who don't know how to use Lua but know what PPM is?
*myself included
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@CubicApocalypse (View Post)
well, I could add it to the old console too, basically all I would do is make typing "tpt.record()" do it (maybe with some optional arguments), I could also do "!record", but that first thing should be simple enough. It needs a better warning though, that it creates too much spam. I'm one of the people that don't know how to use ffmpeg... -
Is there a way / planned update to make the recorder less laggy?
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@thepowderdustflame (View Post)
no, because saving images rapidly like it does is what causes the lag. It uses the .ppm format because of this too, that doesn't need any special encoding or anything, it can just be written as fast as the frames are drawn. Maybe every other frame would work better or something to cause less lag. -
@thepowderdustflame (View Post)
tpt.setfpscap(10)
for a tad slower play/record speed which will, in turn, use up way less processor power but still look like it's slow.
