Leaderboard

I wonder if this wouldn't be relatively easy for someone like Myconid to do if only the right libraries were available: Over here, BrynnOfCastlegate reported that screen-recorded fighting scenes look, quote, "awful" on video due to the frame rate dropping when a lot of stuff is going on - not great for a game whose essence is fighting. Solution: Don't do screen-recording. Instead have the renderer dump frames at a rate fixed relative to sim-time. Apparently, there is already some code for recording video in Atlas, but it has a legally questionable dependency. Instead I propose using the free WebM format, which is supported by YouTube and a number of browsers. If users need the video in another format, they can convert it without legal ramifications for 0 A.D. WebM video can be encoded with this API of the libvpx library. Any interest in having this added to the build? In my view, it would it make easier for anyone to make nice "let's plays", and in the future it could be used for cool things like automatically uploading a video of the match you just played to YouTube (and from there on to Twitter etc.)

You make it sound as if there is some kind of trade-off. These effects were something Myconid decided to add before even joining the team. Him working on that doesn't somehow magically prevent the rest of the team from working on optimization.

Hey Aviv and Nadav! Here are some small pics from our meeting: You can find the rest of the pictures and the bigger versions here: https://picasaweb.go...feat=directlink If you want the originals of some pictures, let me know. It was very nice meeting you! And not only because of 0 AD I Enjoyed it alot and I even saw some new stuff myself so that was pretty nice too Perhaps we should do this kind of stuff more in the future, I suppose 0 AD contributors are widely spread across the planet, so plenty of interesting places to visit Who knows, maybe il come visit you in Israel sometime!