Display your world as a spinning globe

[Ginger_Ale]

Did you download and install the GTK+ runtime enviroment from download.com's link before you downloaded GIMP? It said it won't really work if you don't do that, and sounds like that won't happen.

Btw, I like Puppeteer's the best - a globe spinning slowly, not superfast.

 

[Chieftess]

Yes I did. It usually gets font runtime errors, or errors when it can't find a directory. Very buggy.

I get an error that says:
"Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c; line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
when I try to open the open file dialog box, for example.

I also get a "Could not load font "MS Sans Serif 8" error when saving the animation and I don't give it a file extension.

Ginger-Ale - can you spot the pointer in that line?

 

[the100thballoon]

wish there was a way to use this in-game...... maybe as a flc? dont know where.....

 

[Puppeteer]

@Chieftess: I never had that problem. I did have one problem saving a particular jpg, but it was only that one jpg. My only thought is to double-check you have the latest GIMP (2.2.3 for Windows last I looked) and GTK+ (2.4.14 last I looked) and reinstall.

@the100thballoon: The Gimp animation could be made to run as a command-line script. If someone can figure how to put an arbitrary animated bitmap in the game I can probably figure out how to generate it.

 

[Rhye]

very very nice!

 

[Chieftess]

I discovered that, after each time it crashed, the fuscript would remain in memory.

 

[the100thballoon]

would someone please make a "globe" from my minimap? [tries to look cute]

 

[handy900]

Way too cool. Can you post some step by step instructions for those of us that are PC challenged?

 

[MSTK]

This is actually what I did in Out of the Rubble about half a year ago.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=93198