1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

**Chris_** · 07-22-2008, 13:06

I just started a Romani campaign (VH/M), and I'm going to track the AI's progress. So, being a programmer, I made a program that when I press print screen, gets a screenshot, cuts out the map, saves it to a file, figures out the season + date, sticks that on the image, and saves it as a gif. Then I can stick them together later and make an animation out of it.

When I get further into the campaign i'll link to it.

**V.T. Marvin** · 07-22-2008, 14:11

That looks very nice indeed, Chris.

You may wish to upload your program to a mirror and post a link to it somewhere on the forum (EB Unofficial Modding Projects, maybe?) for others to use it too.

**Chris_** · 07-22-2008, 14:27

I will, just need to make some UI improvements, and test it for a bit, to see if any bugs turn up.

**V.T. Marvin** · 07-22-2008, 14:37

If I may, it would be very nice if your program will do the action triggered by some other key than just PrintScreen. It would thus allow to take normal screenshot (i.e. in battles, etc.) and from time to time use your program to produce and AI map.

And if it somehow managed to toggle_fow on/off it would be even better, though I do not know if it is possible or worthwhile to do that. I am no programmer at all.

**Fondor_Yards** · 07-22-2008, 23:06

You know you can turn fow off yourself in game, hit the ~ key, then type in toggle_fow. Just would need to do that before you take the SS.

*I would also be really interested in that program, sounds like a real time saver.*

**Chris_** · 07-22-2008, 23:16

Got to 262 BC in the Romani campaign. I just won a big battle against the Aedui, when they attacked Bononia with a full stack. Thing is, over half of the stack were slingers, so the battle got a bit insane, with 1000 slingers on skirmish mode running all over the place.

A link to the animated gif of the campaign so far is below. I kept it as a link as it came out a bit big (~ 2MB!), but it does have 40 turns in it. I'm going to try and come up with a cunning plan to cut down the size (other than rar/zipping it).

Behold, my campaign in 8-bit color! : https://i338.photobucket.com/albums/...seden0/out.gif

**V.T. Marvin** · 07-23-2008, 08:02

@ Fondor_Yards - I know how to toggle fow manually, what I meant was asking whether the Chris´s program could do that automatically.

@ Chris - If that was an advertisement for your program, it could hardly be any better. Excellent job!

It reminded me of the replay-world-map in the old Civilization games. It would be nice have something like that for EB too. It is a bliss to end a long-long campaign and just watch how the world map gradually changes to your color all over...

A suggestion - sorry if it is bothering for you - if the program could be activated by a script, it might maybe even possible to have it activated by pressing the end-turn button. Together with automatic fow on/off the end product could be this wonderful animated map just like you have made. I am just dreaming...