Creating a movie

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Hi all,

Since Dirk posted his vid, I think its a million times better than a static screen shot... alas, I have 0 clue how to capture rendered content and squirt it out to an AVI or WMV file using unDelphiX... can anyone shed any light on the subject for me please?

Many thanks

[technomage]

Hi Athena

try

http://bero.0ok.de/page/index.php?p=31

It's a small app that will capture other windows to an avi file, not sure if it will work with directX, but it works with Opengl without any problems

[Traveler]

Alternatively, you could also use VidShot Capturer

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Thanks guys, Dirk pointed me in the direction of Fraps (I think), but I was wondering whether anyone had managed to build the functionality into their own software.

[IaxFenris]

You could also try http://www.fraps.com/. It is Windows only and works with DirectX and OpenGL. As far as i know, the free version comes with a watermark on screen captures and videos and resolutions are limited.

Edit: I was too slow

[JSoftware]

if you want ingame video capture inbuilt, which i don't think there'll be time for, you could rewrite NeHe's tutorial a bit

http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons....asp?lesson=35

[tux]

for the video i posted, i used fraps and windows movie maker, wmm gave much better results then virtualdub and divx6, but thats probably just the way i dont know how to use it

[cairnswm]

Create AVIs from static images (with Delphi Source)

http://www.bloodshed.net/avi.html

[cairnswm]

Source code for the above is at:

http://www.bloodshed.net/delphi/avi15.zip

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Hi guys,

Thanks for all the suggestions.

William, that looks to be just the ticket... when I get five minutes slack time or I need a change, I'm going to see if I can wrap that up in class to be included in our competition entry.

Thanks again for all the suggestions guys, much appreciated.