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Screenshot Autostitcher
Maxim:
Edit: newest version lives here:
http://www.smspower.org/maxim/Software/ScreenshotAutostitcher
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Here's a little something I spent a couple of hours (and then some) on this Sunday evening. It's a program that auto-stitches screenshots together. It's designed for high-frame-rate screenshots. I used the "screen shot each frame" feature in Gens to get the images, but other emulators can probably do something similar.
It's horribly slow, by the way. It took about 20 minutes to stitch 1300 images here. I still have a few ideas for speeding it up. I'll release an executable sometime this week if I get it in a user-friendlier state.
Program:
Result:
<img src="http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/7100/image2pb2.png" width="1199" height="1105" alt="User posted image" />
I also need to think of a better name for it.
TerraEsperZ:
Wow, interesting. I wonder how the algorithm that determines that two screenshots should go together works. Since you say it's designed for high-frame-rate capture, I assume that two images need to be really close to be associated and it wouldn't be of much use for people who take fewer screenshots and do so by hand, like me.
Anyway, it's great to see homemade applications like this one and Revned's Tile Replacer :) I wish all the programing I learned in college (and forgot afterward) would let me code programs this awesome...
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Maxim:
Yes, for the first try it assumes the images are absolutely in the same place and tries ever-increasing distances from that point. I just modified it to assume the same movement as there was between the previous image pair (one of my speed-up ideas) and sure enough, it sped it up a lot. This might then be OK for less high-frame-rate, but still regular, screenshots. Doing it for human-targeted screenshots would be a lot harder.
DarkWolf:
Looks interesting, not sure I'd use it, but there's not exactly an overflow of tools available for mappers, so anything is welcome in my book.
That reminds me, I need to finish Raw Candy one of these days.
Maxim:
The stitch that took 20 minutes in the first post now takes 35 seconds... of course, these are still bases for further work, there's still a lot of skill involved in making the maps look good.
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