Lets Make Moving Pictures

I'm really a sucker for looping animated GIFs and I want to make and share them with the good people of MRGS. I hope you want to do the same!

To start, some low-bit 3D nonsense:

Nick Rudzicz likes this. And weeps.

Thanks, but we need less tears and more GIFs!

I know you can do this.



I'm cross-posting Kenny's SWØØØØRDS! gifs because they're great. How do you record these?

Also I'm going to do more when I get back home.

YES

Wiggle wiggle. Do you have a script or anything to make those in Unity?

Scrapped "2D wiggle" FEZ screenshots, we thought it'd look cool but turns out it's mostly disorienting and weird.

MRGS FORUMS EXCLUSIVE :o :o

Those do look a bit broken, because they remain orthographic I guess? Cool though.

I feel like there should be a less violent way of showing depth with an animation though. What about FOV jiggling?

Fairly ridiculous.

Ahaha, the jello-iness of it makes me thing it'd be great if a game plays with it on purpose though!

Oh and yes, the screenshots remain orthographic. Vertices just get pushed left or right based on real world depth.

I make the images with Fraps and VirtualDub. Here are the steps I take:

* Record in Fraps, no surprises there.
* Open the .avi in VirtualDub and move the playhead to the location where you want to start the GIF sequence.
* Click the black left-facing arrow at the far right end of the play/pause/etc. buttons
* Move the playhead to where you want the sequence to end and click the right-facing arrow.
* Go to Video->Frame Rate, set it to skip every other frame (to cut down on size)
* Go to Video->Filters->Add.. and pick "null transform".
* Click "Cropping"
* Set the X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 parameters to your liking. Drag the playhead across the entire clip you selected to make sure everything gets in the shot.
* Make sure "Video" is set to "Direct stream copy" to ensure the GIF is a pixel-perfect copy of the clip.
* File->Export->Animated GIF

Thanks for the tutorial Kenny!

I MAED MOOVING PIKATURES

I made my graphics card blow up in Unity when I tried to add fog...

Frequency Domain, v0.1 (first time showing flying creatures)



which is taken from this video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnEnwxB1FmM