Multishot

## Description Multishot is a mod primarily meant for making timelapses or otherwise taking screenshots automatically, with a pre-set interval between the screenshots. It also has some other features that might be useful when making timelapses or other videos, such as a few different motion modes (linear, circle, path) and a basic zoom functionality. Starting from version `3.2.0`, Multishot now also has a free moving camera mode, which means that you can easily timelapse yourself building stuff even in single player. This version of Multishot (v3.x.x) is completely rewritten from scratch for Forge/FML. This means that it should now be compatible with most other mods that are written for Forge. In other words, now you can finally start making those timelapses in FTB or other modpacks! (provided that Forge is installed) <details> <summary>Quick Howto</summary> To start making timelapses, you should first configure Multishot the way you want to make your timelapse. The most important settings are the Interval, which is the time between screenshots, the target directory where the screenshots will be saved, the image format/compression, and whether you want to use the automatic motion options. Good starting values are about 1.0 seconds for the interval, and if you have plenty of disk space available, leave the image format as PNG. (PNG is a lossless format, so it offers the best quality of the available options. The JPG format with the different compression values can save you some disk space and are a fair bit faster to save/compress, but they usually look a lot worse, especially with lower quality options.) I wouldn't go below 0.5 seconds for the interval, especially if you are using PNG as the format, because unless you have a fast computer, it might not be able to save the previous screenshot before the next one is due. Also, you'll just end up with a huge amount of screenshots and a lot of disk space used. Also make sure to set `Multishot Enabled` to ON, and also `Motion Enabled` to ON to be able to use the hotkeys. Those just enable the hotkeys, they do not mean that the multishot or motion modes are always on. It is also probably a good idea to turn `Lock Controls` to ON, so that you don't accidentally change the camera angle or position while recording. When all that is done, you can start taking multishots using the `Multishot Start/Stop` hotkey (default: `M`), or if you also want to use the motion feature, just start the motion (default key: `N`), and the multishot mode mode will also start, if the Interval has been set. You can hide the Multishot GUI/HUD either on its own with the Multishot Hide GUI hotkey (default: `H`), or by hiding the Minecraft HUD with `F1`. Multishot also includes a few slightly different, simple options to automatically stop the recording and/or motion after some criteria is met. The four options are: `OFF`, `Video`, `Real` and `Shots`. - `OFF`: Don't stop automatically, stop the recording and/or motion manually. - `Video`: Stops after the required number of screenshots have been taken for the requested length of final timelapse video time (**NOTE:** assumes 24 fps/24 screenshots per second of video. If you use for example 30 fps, you need to calculate the required number of screenshots yourself and use for example the `Shots` option instead.) - `Real`: Stops after the set amount of "real time" has passed, so the time you have been recording, regardless of how many screenshots have been taken in that time. - `Shots`: Stops after the requested number of screenshots have been taken. Note that the `Video` and `Real` time options have their own separate time settings! ### Tip for single player recording: If you use two instances of Minecraft on the same computer (often the case for recording timelapses in singleplayer worlds with a separate camera and the main player), be sure to toggle ON the feature where the game does not pause when losing focus, by pressing `F3 + P`. When it is ON, you should be able to Alt + Tab out without the game going into the pause/main menu screen. Starting from Multishot version `3.2.0`, there is no need to use two clients anymore. See the free camera mode. </details> ## Free camera mode Starting from version `3.2.0`, Multishot now has a free moving camera mode, so you can easily record yourself from another viewpoint. Note that this is limited to what your client has currently loaded, so you can't record in unloaded chunks. The way this works, is that in the path mode the camera moves along the path as you would expect. In the Linear and Circle modes the camera starts from where your player is when you start the motion. You can enable/disable the free camera mode and set the recording resolution in the Multishot menu, on the Camera tab. <details> <summary>Here is an example of reasonable basic settings</summary> !(http://i.imgur.com/4WYer5t.png "Example Settings") </details> <details> <summary>Some examples of pa