Is there any good way to make a timelapse of a TripleA game?
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The following is a copy of a Reddit post I made before I was able to post here.
I just finished a game I was pretty satisfied with and felt had a good progression to it. I wanted to make a timelapse of it somehow, but it's clear that TripleA is just not made for this. There are three approaches I've figured out and none of them are really ideal:
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The first time you switch a game to history view, then when you select a power, you can hold down the space bar to go through all of the orders in that segment of their turn as fast as the game receives input. This is great, but there's a couple problems that actually just make this unusable. First, you can't lock the map when doing this, so there's no way to zoom in on one theater or else the camera will jerk around. Second, it eventually slows down when the game can't load the history fast enough anymore. Third, once it finishes that single segment, it'll pop up the "All units have moved" box and then holding down the space bar never works again. There's basically no way to make a recording of this look smooth without a ton of editing.
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Every subsequent time you press the space bar, it advances the board by one order. Locking the map actually works here, so you could get an autoclicker to press space at a regular interval and record that. The catch is that when doing this, the icon that shows the number of territories a unit has moved shows up. I know this is small, but it's distracting enough that I really do think a video of this wouldn't be so hot.
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There is the option to take a picture of the current board. This image is surprisingly high resolution, so it could capture a specific theater, but if you want individual moves represented, you'd have to download hundreds of images for every round played and crop all of them to the exact same dimensions. I think most people, myself included, probably only have the patience to do an image for the start of each player's turn at most, which would make for a pretty short timelapse.
Between all of these, I'm leaning towards option 3, but I'm not super familiar with the intricacies of the TripleA engine, so I wanted to ask if anyone else had ideas or experience here.
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You can load a saved game.
Move the window over a nation/power like Japan.
Select a round/turn in the history pane on the left
In the image below this was round 2 of a round 36 game
Step through the Combat moves, by pressing the + and by pressing the down arrow step through each Combat move.
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All you need now is a recorder to record what your doing to make a video.
An alternative to the above is not open a Combat Move but just leave the rounds in the History pane and use the down arrow to step through all 36 rounds and snap shot each one.
Hopefully you get the idea.
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@thedog Per my post, I find the indicator of how many steps a unit has moved to be very ugly, which is visible in the method you suggested. Is it possible to disable that in any way?
