@Harmonea this is because RimWorld has no VSync option. Setting the game to borderless window may help on Windows.

Thanks for your response.

Please don't get me wrong here: I truly do appreciate all your work on this mod. But I and most in my circle run this mod because of a love for timelapses, not a desire to post on some website. If I'm posting on a mod's workshop page, I'm asking how to use the mod better, not how to follow your website rules.

@Harmonea sadly there isn't. This is the reason why ships being landed is a requirement on rimworld.gallery . There's a howto video in the sidebar in case you want to land it just for making a render

Is there any chance of better support for SOS2? I just took my colony to space for the first time and things are looking pretty dire as it tries to handle the ever-shifting planet and starfield BG: https://imgur.com/a/1cziT81

Could it possibly blink in a flat space-blue BG instead on the frame it's rendering?

@tydien that's not supposed to happen. I'd say 10-20 max. Could you join our discord?

How many images is "Initialize quality adjustment at first render" supposed to generate? Currently im at 3000, been generating it for at least an hour and it's still going.

@MG123Rezurected You can use the timelapse 2023 mod to make a timelapse with the renders made by progress renderer

Do the renders compile into a video automatically or do we have to do that ourselves?

okay, thanks for the quick response! At least Ill try it with my current world from now on and then when I start a new, Ill have the whole thing!

@maf that would only be possible if the game itself had some kind of replay system

Hello, might be a dumb question, am I able to go backwards? As in my world is on day 450 right now and I want to make the timelapse of the world as I have just installed the mod... Im guessing not, right? :(

@Withy thanks for sharing, good to know. I've added a recommendation setting the feedback to message above

@The Village Guy I use RimPy. The first thing I did was disable all mods besides harmony to troubleshoot. It's not a mod conflict.

@Withy We'll definetely look into this, thanks for pinpointing the problem. The thing is, the mod actually works for most people so it is likely caused by a combination of PR and another mod. If we could nail down which mod is causing it, that would be even more awesome

If the mod is broken for you:

The last time I tried to get this mod to work again was August of 2024, at one point this mod worked fine with no problems. I submitted a bug report and basically got no support other than the devs asking a couple questions. I found the reason why this mod isn't working. If the mod is not outputting screenshots for you, and it's giving you the log error listed below, then you need to change the "Render Feedback" setting in the mod options to "Message" instead of "Popup." I'm honestly not sure why this is an option in the mod settings to begin with. I'm assuming the code in this mod involving OnGUI (Scripting API for rimworld's user interface) is likely incorrect and its causing the mod to break.

Root level exception in OnGUI(): System.TypeLoadException: Could not resolve type with token 0100008d (from typeref, class/assembly Verse.IWindowDrawing, Assembly-CSharp, Version=1.5.8909.13066, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)

@Oni No, placing a render of your colony on https://rimworld.gallery is much appreciated but not obligatory

do we have to use rimworld.gallery in order to use this mod?

@DonZekane yes it does, https://rimworld.gallery is the RimWorldPorn community's homebase

Does this mod add the "share your renders" thingy? If so, why use some random federated whatnot site instead of plainly posting on an adequate subreddit? I'm legitimately curious. Like I'd understand if we were talking politics and stuff, but nobody's gonna censor Rimworld screenshots.

as a x3 speed fan (x4 with the mod) gonna work in some calibrations.

Is there any way to hide the corner marker? That big orange square?

@FlamerDasher25 because it did what it is supposed to? If you play the game at 3x it will rapidly generate renders, nobody stops you from deleting them. If they're being saved directly to your desktop it's likely because the mod can't write the renders where you told it to. Feel free to come to our discord and we'll try to help you sort it out

dawg after playing a hour of rimworld my whole desktop was filled with the brim with my map on the rimworld this is a buggy mod

Could you please add support for overlays from TD Enhancement Pack? They still show up despite overlays being disabled.

doesnt work... any non-manual render is gray and if I try to take a manual one it crashes the game.

There's a very long error message every time i try to manually take one.

Root level exception in OnGUI(): System.TypeLoadException: Could not resolve type with token 0100008d (from typeref, class/assembly Verse.IWindowDrawing, Assembly-CSharp, Version=1.5.8909.13066, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)

I imagine this doesn't shed a single light on what I can do to even figure out a solution?

Sadly it doesnt work with Save our Ship 2
When taking rendering in space there are a ton of artifacts, random bright lines and weirdly duplicated planets all over.
Such a shame. Because otherwise this mod is great

@BlackyM feel free to join our discord, we'll try to help you find the problem

doesn't work, doesn't render anything

You could try lowering the PPC setting, that should reduce the amount of memory used while rendering. It will also reduce image quality, of course

Can confirm today that in a working mod list the game will hang when this mod tries to take a screen shot of a rectangular map. This is with 64GB of RAM and 12GB of VRAM.

The game is still responsive, I can click on things, but the 'Rendering Map Image...' box stays indefinitely and no screen shot is generated.

Thanks for the response! I know I had issues back in 1.4 with this.

I have an ultra wide monitor so prefer to play rectangular maps usually.

Do you know what the max map size is that will work?

Rectangular can be a problem because internally memory has to be reserved for 1000x1000 which might be too much for the image library to handle

By work I mean that maps larger than 325x325 and rectangular rather than square. (Eg 1000x500)

Can anyone confirm if this works with 'Better Map Sizes'?

Back in 1.4 using both used to crash my game, I'm finally building a 1.5 mod list now that most are updated.

For some reason, settings that disable designation visibility and every checkmark disabled does not have any effect on the rendering. I still get an renders where designation for mining and construction visible.

I want to ask that why the mod makes the duplicates of the screenshots, a first batch in a folder named after the seed of the world, then a second batch in a folder named "tmp" in the original folder that is named after the seed.

It's in Camera+ ... the Animal Dots.

@ftr it's an overlay in the mod settings

How to stop mod from capturing dots that show animal location?

@matarile could you supply some more info? Please join the Discord

suddenly dont work for me :(

@phoenix could you join us on the Discord please?

ok, so i unsubbed, deleted the config file and resubbed. now the automatic rendering is working again, but it's ignoring this setting: <createSubdirs>True</createSubdirs> and not putting the files in the folder where all the other files were saved previously

hey i ran into a little problem maybe you could help? everything was running fine but then my game froze and i had to close it. now it doesnt render automatically anymore. manually still works, but it seems like it lost track of the date/time or how often to do the renders or something? i deleted the xml file, i tried to make it render every hour, i turned it of an on again... no auto renders. how could i fix this?

Love the mod, thanks for maintaining and updating!

Q: I like more than 1 screenshot per day, but having at least 2 means that when I animate them there's flickering due to the day/night cycle. Would it be possible to add a setting where the mod takes two pictures during daytime but none during nightime, or something else to maintain light level across screenshots?

Greetings. Amazing mod. Any way to fix water rendering? https://i.imgur.com/IMJADpe.jpeg
Using [LTo] Water in 1.4 and now also in 1.5, the water gets all broken. Could it be possible to use default water instead or fix the water shading? Thanks

Suggestion: option to replace images with duplicate names instead of creating "-alt" files

@Cellzar technically that should be possible. But how much performance would you be willing to sacrifice?

Awesome mod! I was wondering if its possible to edit the mod to take a screenshot every tick or ingame minute/second. All those screenshot could then put together in a video to show a large battle without interupts from the player managing all pawns. Do you get the idea and what do you think?