Gif Recorder — Minecraft Datapack

Welcome back sethbling here and today I want to show you my animated gifs recorder in Minecraft so here we can look at an animated gif I recorded yes this is the first rule of Minecraft this is a kind of popular meme let me go in

And press press f1 so you can see it it it’s full glorious 128 by 128 resolution so this is a this is a popular meme that’s the first rule of Minecraft never dig straight down and it’s just it’s just a map and an item frame now what’s

Going on here is it’s actually switching through map IDs at a rate of 20 maps per second so we’re getting 20 FPS video 128 by 128 pixels it looks pretty smooth when you rent when you animate it like this you can really see all the textures and everything you know that text starts

Out a little bit pixelated but yeah I I’m I’m pretty happy with how this looks actually there’s some other little gifts I’ve recorded just to test out the gif recorder so yeah just various features of the the gif recorder as I as I was like adding features and stuff um so

You’ll notice there is an overlay here right so there’s switches between my arm and a pickaxe and so if I come way over here you’ll see basically it only tracks currently between whether you’re holding a pickaxe or not so what it does is it copies this whole set of 128 by 128

Blocks up into the ceiling in fact you can kind of see that part of that diamond pickaxe up overlay up in the ceiling and so this just gets overlaid over the over the map right here over whatever else is in the map and then there’s that crosshair in

The middle too and so that’s if you’re holding a diamond pickaxe it’ll render the frame with that overlay and if you’re not holding your time in pickaxe it’s a little bit hard to see but this looks like my hand in my skin and there’s still the crosshair over there

So it just just clones in the overlay and that’s actually pretty quick to do for each frame and so that’s the major edition but otherwise it’s just basically uses my previous polaroid data pack to take a series of pictures and then render on render I’m on two different maps

And then it like cycles through those maps when it wants to actually display the jiff so yeah I’m gonna show you how to how I actually recorded this this gif sorry J gifs no sorry gif and yeah so it was I built like a little area over here and this

Has the never dig straight down text and everything let me actually just go into a spectator mode here and yeah so has that never stayed straight down so I built this to try and mirror the original meme as closely as possible it didn’t render that torch because my

Data pack doesn’t render torches because it’s not a complete block yeah let me show you how I recorded this gif all right so to record this first of all we slash reload and that will bring up the record option all those hit record walkover do this mine the blocks out and

I’m gonna get ready to stock the cording because I want to stop recording just before the ground because there is no death screen so that is that now that the recording is done so there’s a bunch of area effect clouds every single game tick it created an area effect cloud

Tracking my position now I have to do one more thing before I can actually render it and I just to go back up here and replace the blocks that I mind the recording process does actually track when you break blocks so when I walked over here and I broke this and then I

Broke this and about this it tracked which frame in which Brock block I broke based on you know which block in front of me just disappeared so it did track all that so now that I’ve replaced all the blocks I’m gonna go ahead and start flying and then I

Will hit the render button so what this will do is it will start rendering now I have an empty map in my inventory too so it gave me an empty map so I’ll right-click that and we’ll well after our moments see the first frame of the

Render okay and then it’s going to start rendering the next frame while it’s running a next frame I can right-click again and and that will bring up a new map it always gives you map I D zero and so it’ll look like this probably when you do this if you try it

For yourself but after a second or two you are laughter it finishes rendering the frame and then after a few seconds where it like loads in all the blocks and figures out what to put on the map it’ll show you what’s actually on the map and then my data Peck after a second

Or two will remove that map from your inventory and give you a new empty map to right-click so it is constantly generating new maps there’s no the data pack has no way of generating sort of new maps for you I think yeah because the right-click when you right click it

Like sets what the coordinates of the map are and so that’s something you just need to do manually so in order to do this from here on out you just keep holding down right click if you have like an auto clicker or whatever you can use mouse keys and that’s what that’s

What I plan on doing here you can just hold down right click and and that’s a lot easier than well sitting there and right-clicking for like an hour because this will take about an hour it’s 162 frames 15 seconds per frame there’s like 4 frames per minute of rendering and

Yeah it’s like 40 minutes okay so I’m gonna fast-forward okay here we are on the last couple of frames yeah it’s almost done did take like an hour they’ll actually near the end here it seems to have taken a lot longer because the render distance was a lot farther

Basically all the Rays had to travel farther before they reach box and so it took a little bit longer to render but here we are at let’s see it’s rendering frame 161 at 162 so one more frame to go and then it will be done once we have

The last frame that will give us a map almost there oh wait after right-click right okay so now this is rendering their last frame and then I can right-click so this is this map it will not take this mat from us will render the last frame to this map

And once we have bets we can put that in an item frame and so I’ll look at do that and done rendering cool and it should get some there we go so that’s the last frame of the of the of the gif now I’m just gonna pop down

Let’s give myself an item frame and I’ll take some stone and just pop an item for him on the wall put the map in there and never dig straight down that’s all there is to it yes so oh yeah you can put multiple of these on if you want

Once here if you want to render another video or whatever you should probably just get rid of this map because you’ll never be able to place a gif again you can only place it if it’s the most recent thing you’ve rendered but you can

We can have a whole wall of these if we want let’s do it just for fun yeah so yeah that’s that’s how it works it’s it’s really kind of a straightforward addition to the the previous you know picture taking data pack but I think it I think it looks really nice actually

Just just that that 20 FPS is so crisp anyway if you want to try it out for yourself there is a link in video description and I’ve given you all the instructions to try it outs so that’s about it thanks for watching