The next patch will support JPEG and variable quality levels unless something goes wrong. It makes saving the movies a lot easier.
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Pionier
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:18 AM
That sounds interresting, what excatly do you mean with saving movies?
Ralph Trickey
Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:45 AM
They aren't actual 'movies' There's a setting in the options screen that will save a map at the beginning of each turn with a name something like scenarioname tXX.jpg. You can then use some other software to stitch the JPegs into a movie. There have been a couple of threads on the forums about how to do it. It's been most useful with the 'minimap' views. The BMPs for large scenarion were pretty big. Ralph
larry fulkerson
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:22 AM
Hey Ralph: I've been converting the Movies from bmp to GIF so I can stitch them together into a GIF animation but I do have Windows MovieMaker that can stitch JPEGs together to make a movie.....the problemo is that MovieMaker movies are a million times larger than the GIF animations when they are saved as a file. It makes posting the stitched together movie on the Matrix forum a pseudo-problem. Thought you'd like to know.