Animated gif file mystery

[Jananton]

Hello All,

Going through my screenshots in the StarMade folder the other day I noticed a 445Gb gif file in there dated 5 november this year that contains a sequence of me building something, but, this is the embarrassing part, I have no idea were this came from

So my question is, is there a keyboard shortcut for this in the game I'm missing or have overlooked, or is there something in Windows 10 that can do this and I don't know about...

I do have screen capture software, but I'm sure that's not it since that creates either avi or mp4 video files. :D

Greets,

Jan

 

[Winterhome]

Yes, there is a keyboard shortcut for it, but I don't remember what the shortcut is.

 

[therimmer96]

By default its the pause button next to scroll lock.

 

[Crusade]

pause/break.

 

[Jananton]

Ah, right. I must have pressed that key at some time then when trying to hit another one in that vicinity. lol

In retrospect it happened probably at the time I upped the memory footprint since I suddenly found the game running quite sluggish. :D

Thanks for the info guys, it'll go in the list of hidden keyboard entries for one never knows.

Greets,

Jan

 

[Edymnion]

Yup, you turn on the video capture with the Pause button and your game will become quite sluggish indeed as it fills up your entire hard drive.

 

[Crimson-Artist]

i should also point out that the gifs that you can make in starmade tend to play out way faster then normal. thats why i use programs like photoshop to slow the frames down as well as any other edits as capturing gifs can actually break the game to an extent

 

[Jananton]

Yes Crimson-Artist I noticed the playback wasn't really smooth and it also seemed as if it wasn't recorded at the same speed overall.

In any case if I knowingly would make a recording I'd use Shadowplay. I did some tests with that and it works like a charm.

Greets,

Jan

 

[Edymnion]

It seems to be a performance saving issue.

As in, it seems to only take every other frame or so, then puts it into a gif at regular speed, making it look jerky/sped up.

Given how badly it lags the game as is, it would probably make it unplayable if it did a full framerate grab.

 

[NeonSturm]

Yup, you turn on the video capture with the Pause button and your game will become quite sluggish indeed as it fills up your entire hard drive.

Why is this hotkeyed to the pause button rather than the print button?

As in, it seems to only take every other frame or so, then puts it into a gif at regular speed, making it look jerky/sped up.

If 2 frames are skipped, the adjacent ones (previous, next) should take place of this two.
At least the file or a text-output next to it should contain information about the frames that got captured.