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MP4 previews for ALL THE MOVS!
Leandro:
Torrent ALL THE MOVS!
Well, all the MOVs that are usable with the player skeleton, anyway. I haven't gotten around to dog emotes yet.
I wrote a script that goes through the whole list of MOVs, creates a demo of Fusionette doing that MOV, runs the demo through the COH client while dumping all the frames, then takes those frames and makes an animated GIF out of it, before moving on to the next emote.
The script will finally be done in a little over two hours, after spitting about 8500 animated GIFs, which use about 14GB of disk space. Now the question is, how the hell do I distribute this.
The original plan was to put those in the Wiki, but asking for 14GB of server space to store animations that only a handful of people are going to use seems too greedy. And besides, this works best when you can have the folder in your own computer, because then you can just search for something and have all the emotes that match instantly come up.
So, I'm thinking I should torrent this thing. I'm looking for a few volunteers to seed it, because my connection is very craptastic. If any of you has a seedbox and would like to waste 14GB in Fusionette animated GIFs, please say something! I'd really like to get these things out for others to use.
corvus1970:
First off, that's awesome.
Secondly, BitTorrenting the file would be a great idea.
Third, while I don't have dedicated seed-box, I'd be willing to help seed it so long as a few others would pitch in as well.
You're hits, Leandro, they just keep on coming! :D
The Fifth Horseman:
Perhaps the size could be reduced by cropping the images and/or reducing the framerate slightly (assuming it's not below 25 FPS already)? Cutting down on color depth would also help with that.
Codewalker:
Or maybe encoding to mp4. GIF dithering can inflate the filesize by a large amount. If they're not on a website there's less of a reason for GIF to be a convenient format.
Leandro:
--- Quote from: The Fifth Horseman on December 12, 2012, 03:24:07 PM ---Perhaps the size could be reduced by cropping the images and/or reducing the framerate slightly (assuming it's not below 25 FPS already)? Cutting down on color depth would also help with that.
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They're only 10FPS, because they were intended to be put on the web.
--- Quote from: Codewalker on December 12, 2012, 03:58:02 PM ---Or maybe encoding to mp4. GIF dithering can inflate the filesize by a large amount. If they're not on a website there's less of a reason for GIF to be a convenient format.
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You're absolutely right. I did the whole thing thinking they would be put on the wiki, but if I'm just going to torrent the whole thing, it'd be better to MP4 the crap out of it.
I've been using Imagemagick to take the list of TGA files and make the animated GIFs... what would be the equivalent tool to make MP4 files? I think FFmpeg would do it... I'll have to check.
Of course, this means re-rendering all the images, so another week or so until it's done :P
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