It is finally here
So after an absence of about 5 months it is finally here, a new time lapse video! We just started a new game and I have to get back into playing OpenTTD so it was an excellent chance to time lapse. I hope you guys like it.
General gaming guide at day9tv
There is a channel on blip.tv based on Starcraft 2 by a person called Day9. It is someone who not only knows a damn lot about SC2 gameplay but he is an extremely clever person who thinks about things in an interesting way. And he is entertaining to listen to, at least for me.
What I want to share with you in this post is a link for his 400th daily episode. This time his daily is not completely related to SC2 but it is more of a general talk about how people think not only when playing SC2 or playing games in general. Of course it is not entirely relevant to OpenTTD in all aspects like for example making a surprise attack strategy, but many other points are very valid to consider even here.
Here is the link for the videos and below in the article I will try to show how do I think those points fit even to our environment.
Day9 daily 400
I really enjoy watching is videos despite I do not play Starcraft 2 just because he is such an entertaining person to listen to.
More time lapses
I created a time lapse of a station build a while ago. In PSG 211 I created two more time lapses of a SLH construction and an upgrade. You might consider these less interesting as it is not a big build but there is still a lot to see and you can probably learn a thing or two from it. Or see how you shouldn’t build things.
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Timelapse Patch on a PSG
In the public server game PSG #117 (r14508) I tested the timelapse patch by Roujin. It allows you to create screenshots automatically at a given interval. The screenshots can be converted to a movie with a program like mencoder.
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Complex Orders and Improved S-Bahn Concept
Another great and useful feature which one or two didn’t recognize yet are Conditional Order Jumps. They are not available in OpenTTD 0.6.3 but if you are playing with recent nightly builds you should definitely use their advantages. As the name says you can use these special entries in the list to jump to a certain order.
Lets get an overview about the usage first and therefor we start with the types of conditions.
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