Hey guys! It's been awhile, I know. I'm sorry about that. I want to get back into the swing of things, starting now. I'm going to be doing a hackathon this weekend, and livestreaming the process! Join the Discord for more information:
discord.gg/wsG3xHvHAg
Here's a sneak peak at some of the graphics I'm working on for the upcoming video. I've been playing with Blender and built a 2D graphing library to display datasets.
It's taken a ton of time, but I think having these tools will help me speed things up in the future.
I couldn't find a great way to interpolate between two SVG line graphs with DaVinci Resolve. So, like a normal person, I spent two days writing a C++ program that uses SVGs and FFMPEG to create a ProRes video that interpolates between two datasets over x number of frames.
Very mild improvements, but it's still sounding good.
I'm gonna try a few more things to improve the sound, then I'll be able to actually start making the video on this project lol
I COOKED
I COOKED SO HARD
Raw video file for anyone who wants it:
drive.google.com/file/d/1QA2q...
I PROMISE this video actually has a point!
Side note: This video was entirely cut, edited, rendered and encoded in Minecraft, so that's cool!
Also, obligatory note: the audio was added in post. Still working on a good noteblock solution. It turns out, audio engineering is complicated for cavemen like myself.
This site's video compression might blow this video to hell, so I uploaded the MP4 and the first 100 frames to a public Google Drive folder:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Exporting is looking good!
The original video was 1920x1080px. That was converted into 256x144px frames for the in-game display. When exporting, each pixel of each frame is replaced with the corresponding block's texture, resulting in this 4096x2304px monstrosity.
Beautiful.
What a beautiful spot... for some editing!
I ported over to Fabric, so I guess I'm a real modder now.
Minecraft as an audio format?
THIS IS IN REALTIME I AM ECSTATIC
(audio edited in, but I've got an idea for that)
Decided to try drawing directly onto the maps. Could be promising. This is attempting to do 20fps, but the maps take like 2 ticks to update, so I'm really getting something like 6 to 7 fps.
However, it just might be cunty enough to work.
Let's see what I can do with this.
It is possible, but only barely, which is good enough for me. The most I could manage was 2 fps.
This is after I dropped the video's resolution to 270x480, and dropped its frame rate to 20fps. I'm also using keyframing instead of drawing a completely new image each frame.
In theory, this is what a video made with map art would look like. I love it.
