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Again, this will look like crap in FCEUX, but fine in any other emulator.
Ah, is that what you were getting on about... I was really confused by your previous post :)
I tried doing the transparency relative to number-of-screenshots-so-far but couldn't wrap my head around exactly when stuff gets painted on screen so it never seemed to work right...
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Tetris B-mode!
I've been trying to do something with gui.gdscreenshot()... either using transparency or directly manipulating the resulting string. But failing :( Seems like it might be faster?
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I think Warp is right. The earlier SMB ones I posted were of a much smaller sample size. They were generated by taking snapshots and running them through ImageMagick; I don't think there was any transparency issue...
Anyways, Donkey Kong!
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I like it!
Here's the full smb any%, kind of boring :(
Script works great (I don't even mind taking a snapshot or the extra split second it takes to render on the screen ;) except it's a bit slow at least on my computer.
Randil wrote:
It almost looks like some kind of work of art!
I admit, this was not an original idea at all. I saw this guy 10 years ago and have always been fascinated with his averaging pictures, and only now realized I could do the same thing :)
http://www.google.com/search?q=jason+salavon
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First 4000 frames of metroid any% made with a 4 line lua script that dumps screenshots.
Will check out new script soon! I was contemplating how to do something like that...
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OK, yeah, so I was curious what a single movie average would look like. Here's the first level of SMB, more or less:
I don't know, kind of lame. I did this the carpal tunnel inducing way of repeatedly hitting frame advance and screenshot hotkey 1000 times.
Oh, and here's the magick part:
1 Download ImageMagick
2 Get a directory full of png's (or whatever) that are the same size
3 Go to that directory and type 'convert *.png -average output.png'
4 ???
5 Profit
It's pretty complicated.
Lua has no screenshot support "AFAICT" but Warp's proposed solution is actually pretty rad. It would also probably be a hell of a lot faster than waiting a friggin hour while ImageMagick averages 1000 pictures.
OK, someone who is smarter and has more time than me, let's see some more pictures!
Oh, and everyone wins the game. If you are stumped, look at the file names.
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Oh, no, sorry, each image is generated from an average of every screenshot from a system. So it's a bunch of games. Not just one. I meant guess the system, not guess the game. Also, the game was meant to be played silently, to yourself. It's too trivial to ruin it for others. Again, I'm very sorry for the confusion. I guess you could say that generating confusion is my hobby. But say it silently, to yourself.
jimsfriend: No, sorry, you can't.
Don't guess anymore, but if people can explain why some of them have the weird grid effect, that would be pretty ok! I would like to know your theories.
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Someone is working on it... I know some of you kids speak Japanese, go help this guy! :)
Main site (seems to be down atm): http://tcg2.110mb.com/
Forum: http://z8.invisionfree.com/TCG2sorry if obvious post is obvious
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I would suggest Extra Lives by Tom Bissell. It is a book about video games so I'm not sure anyone here would be that interested in it but it is well written.
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Thanks for the awesome run! F-zero played well is always awesome to watch.
That said, I vote no for publication. I hope you or someone makes a TAS of the full game. Single track movies just seem silly; it's like a TAS of 1-1 in Super Mario Bros.
I know a full run would be long and repetitive though which is why I think Mute City was published by itself (don't quote me on that cause I can't be assed to research it :P)
Anyway, thanks again for the great movie. I hope we will see a full run on the workbench eventually.
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Daw, my baby's all grown up! *sniff*
Critical five wrote:
Note that I'm not really good at writing description, so don't rely on me to add movies to the Gruefood Delight page ;)
If you (or someone) takes the onerous task of linking to movies/screenshots/youtubes for new movies, I will be happy to add smarmy descriptions :D
Thanks again guys!
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Holy crap, that looks great! Thank you Critical five!
If you would like to keep at it, I think it ought to be moved here: http://tasvideos.org/Movies/GruefoodDelight.html
At the same time it could be stripped of anything related to me; I have abdicated as maintainer obviously. And there are a lot of good suggestions for additions in this thread that have gone ignored!
Thanks again!
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Nach: While this is quick, and this is possible, I don't see the interest of this extending beyond the actual move list. Publishing a key press file or an AVI of this is redundant.
The moves: e2-e4 e7-e5 d1-h5 e8-e7 h5xe5++
Yeah that string of letters really takes my breath away! You should start writing TAS poetry!
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adelikat wrote:
EtchenBa wrote:
As a competitive chess player this was not very interesting to me. I think more interesting would be trying to fulfill various achievements. Fastest stalemate, fastest self-mate (get yourself checkmated, if that wasn't obvious), fastest checkmate with a pawn, force the opposing king to YOUR king's original square and mate, etc.
Just my two cents. Considering most of you are not competitive chess players, I doubt you'll share my sentiments.
Those are all interesting suggestion. All of them would be a more impressive feat than a 3 move checkmate.
Publish this one to encourage more interesting ones? I liked it a lot; FractalFusion always pulls out great random movies :D
Tetris B-mode!
I've been trying to do something with gui.gdscreenshot()... either using transparency or directly manipulating the resulting string. But failing :( Seems like it might be faster?
Script works great (I don't even mind taking a snapshot or the extra split second it takes to render on the screen ;) except it's a bit slow at least on my computer.
Will check out new script soon! I was contemplating how to do something like that...
I don't know, kind of lame. I did this the carpal tunnel inducing way of repeatedly hitting frame advance and screenshot hotkey 1000 times.
Oh, and here's the magick part:
1 Download ImageMagick
2 Get a directory full of png's (or whatever) that are the same size
3 Go to that directory and type 'convert *.png -average output.png'
4 ???
5 Profit
It's pretty complicated.
Lua has no screenshot support "AFAICT" but Warp's proposed solution is actually pretty rad. It would also probably be a hell of a lot faster than waiting a friggin hour while ImageMagick averages 1000 pictures.
OK, someone who is smarter and has more time than me, let's see some more pictures!
Oh, and everyone wins the game. If you are stumped, look at the file names.
