Some eye candy

[bull]

Mars fly-by (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5x0T8ToNM) from a script by Chad from The Earth is square (http://www.earthissquare.com/).


I was bored at 2am last night, British TV is rubbish and I had finished watching all my downloaded American shows, so I decided to make some videos from WW 1.4 and upload them to youtube.

Table Mountain (http://youtube.com/watch?v=QgHmtakSP-Y)

This shows off how cool sunshading looks with topo maps, it also helps give a more 3D look to them which is very useful.

Jupiter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3l7yz4UJLE)

Just a rotating view of Jupiter with music by Holst.

Io (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx79tPU8Gws)

Io rotating.

Mars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0welGFpThTA)

A rotating view of Mars with music by Holst.


Enjoy.

[Guest_Jim_*]

Very nice Bull I just tried doing some similar things in the past few works but with far less success. I think I'll try again since I have the time to now.

[patmurris]

I was bored at 2am last night, British TV is rubbish... so I decided to make some videos from WW 1.4 and upload them to youtube. Enjoy.

Really nice Bull !
Would you let us know how you work this magic ?
Software, plug-ins, video encoder... ?

How about putting together one of those 3 minutes clip with punched music fast video editing and great shots, that would show off all of the - sometime less well known, great features of WW 1.4... from clips we will all start producing once we know how ;)

YouTube is certainly a place for that.

[bull]

Basicaly I used the standard 1.4 with sun shading and motion momentum on and set the globes spinning, then used FRAPS to capture the screen to an avi, pretty big files. The post processing was done using virtualdub, select a wav file for audio, select mp3 compression, and for video select an xvid codec, I used 2 pass, then save the avi. Pretty simple, I need to figure out how to do fading and other stuff, I know virtualdub has lots of filters, I'm just a bit rusty.

The mars fly-by was done using the movie plugin from 1.4, I had to save as png and then load those into virtualdub as the avi option seems to have a 4gb file size limit.

[Guest_Jim_*]

Just thought of something, now that we can change the time in World Wind will that be incorporated into the coordinates and/or the movie recorder plug-in?

[Chade]

Jim: if the time can be changed from a World Wind link, I'll add it in to the movie recorder.
The mars fly-by was done using the movie plugin from 1.4, I had to save as png and then load those into virtualdub as the avi option seems to have a 4gb file size limit.
HMMM. :(
Might that be a Windows limitation with 32-bit systems? How long did your movie go for?

[bull]

HMMM. :(
Might that be a Windows limitation with 32-bit systems? How long did your movie go for?

I expect it was a windows limit, although I'm sure I've had bigger files on my system before, maybe its related to how .NET handles files, the movie was only a few minutes long but I like saving uncompressed, maybe I should try installing a losless codec like Mjpeg.

[Chade]

Apparently (from some pages I found), if your hard drive is formatted as FAT32 you have a limit of 4GB. NTFS doesn't have a limit like this.

So it's either that or due to Windows being 32-bit (2^32 = 4GB).

[bull]

NTFS here so it shoud be ok, but I've seen weird limits in windows apps before.

[bull]

Another vid this time blue marble (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P4iifiyII4)

[Guest_Jim_*]

Perhaps someone should make a larger movie that includes all of the worlds we have and some of their features for a kind of commercial. Such a video could be useful for advertising demonstrations (as in emailing them to teachers or putting up on the wiki). Only problem with that idea (that I can think of) is getting permission to use the music.

[bull]

Yup already on it, working out the kinks.