{"id":3220,"date":"2009-05-02T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2010-10-24T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T13:05:56","slug":"procedural-city-part-11-demonstration-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Procedural City, Part 11: Demonstration Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the key points of the project, distilled into a short video.  <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-d2-PtK4F6Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Seeing the thing in motion really is more exciting than screenshots. <\/p>\n<p>I know in the video I claimed it <em>was<\/em> released as source and a screensaver , but that step has been delayed and I&#8217;m to lazy to re-cut the video.  <\/p>\n<p>Soon.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the stuttering apparent in the video is not from the program itself.  It was running at 200-300fps with no slowdowns when I made this video.  The stuttering either happened during video capture or during the encoding process, which I was obliged to do twice.  (Cheapo Windows Movie Maker doesn&#8217;t support multiple audio tracks, so to get the typing sound <em>and<\/em> the music in there together I had to encode the entire movie with just the typing, then re-import that movie and add the music.  There were probably better ways to have solved this, but all of them would have taken longer and I&#8217;d already spent more time on this than I&#8217;d intended. <\/p>\n<p>The story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/why-presentation-is-important.html\">cool cam<\/a> is one many engineers (and by extension, programmers) need to take to heart, that marketing does not always deserve the scorn we give it, and that a little polish in presentation can go a long way to covering up the lack of polish in everything else. I applied that lesson to great effect here.  The animated camera does a great job of showing off the cool stuff and hiding the rough edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the key points of the project, distilled into a short video. Link (YouTube) Seeing the thing in motion really is more exciting than screenshots. I know in the video I claimed it was released as source and a screensaver , but that step has been delayed and I&#8217;m to lazy to re-cut the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}