Timelapse Base Edition (TLBE)

This mod takes screenshots of your base at specified intervals.

Features:

• Multiple camera support, each taking their own screenshots.
• Trackers to tell the camera(s) where to look at
  • Follow player until the first entity is built.
  • Follow base growth, keeping focus on specified area/city block or recenter automatically.
  • And finally follow the rocket launch.
• Camera use (ordered) tracker list, first enabled tracker is used.
• Camera gradually (configurable period) recenters and zooms out, which can be recorded in a stop-motion fashion.
• Each camera has customizable resolution, frame rate and speed gain, and show their recording area on the map.
• All screenshots are taken with full daylight or follow day cycle, and optionally show entity information.
• Flexible save options:
  • Configurable screenshot folder (e.g. to support multiple save files that are played in parallel).
  • Include map seed in path (extra measure to prevent overlaps when having multiple save files)
  • Configurable screenshot numbering, either sequential (default, more suitable for Windows ffmpeg) or game tick (easier to synchronize multiple cameras).
  • Configurable image formats (PNG or JPG).
• Optionally start recording on game start to not miss the crash in the timnelapse.

Open the TLBE settings from shortcut bar or CTRL-T (default key binding) to configure your camera(s) and trackers.

Screenshots are stored in the script-output folder, with the configured sub-directory ('Save location' setting).

Check demo movie on Youtube

When you got inspired to make you own timelapse video after watching it, Bigfoot made an exellent video on how to approach making timelapse videos: