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Posted: **Sat Aug 03, 2019 4:44 pm**

Hi,
I started a game in 0.17.59 with replay activated some weeks ago. Now I wanted to create a timelapse from the replay. In Version 0.16 you could just add

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script.on_nth_tick(3600, function(event) 
  game.take_screenshot{
    surface = game.surfaces[1],
    position = {0,0},
    resolution = {4096,2160},
    zoom = 1.0,
    path = "timelapse/" .. string.format("%06d", event.tick/event.nth_tick) .. ".jpg",
    show_entitiy_info = true,
  }
end)

to the control.lua in your samegame. When you play the replay this little script would take a screenshot every minute. Some ffmpeg and your timelapse is done.

But when I tried this in 0.17.59 it just created an empty folder "timelapse" but nothing more.

After some research I found this

0.17.13 Bugfixes
[...]
Fixed that replays could trigger autosaves and take screenshots

(https://wiki.factorio.com/Version_history/0.17.0)

Is it really a bug that you can take screenshot in a replay?

Of course, you could take the screenshots while playing with the script. But with a slow computer this is annoying.
One solution would be adding a "save timelapse" option in the replay gui in vanilla

What do you thinks guys?

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[0.17.59] Problem with replay timelapse

[0.17.59] Problem with replay timelapse