Assassin’s Creed: Origins

If you read my about page, you may know that I used to work in game design some years ago. So of course I like to play games a lot :) But with a game like the new Assassin’s Creed, I only can think of how great the scenery looks and how wonderful photos it would make for, if it was real (or still existing). Probably would call that a professional deformation :)

How about you? Have you tried the game already?

How to share plotagraphs in a blog post?

Since I’m posting a plotagraph today, I though I would also show you how I include it in the blog posts.

I use the video HTML tag to include the MP4 versions of the plotagraph. Of course if you just export it from Plotagraph, it would be too big, so first I compress it using Hanbrake transcoder (which you can get for free here), where I just use the default settings to recode the file. A file of 1200×800 px then ends up between 0.5 to 1.5 megabytes in size.

Then I use the tag in this form:

‹video poster=”link to image that shows while the video is loading” autoplay=”autoplay” loop=”loop”›
‹source src=”link to the video in mp4 format” type=”video⁄mp4″ ⁄›
Your browser does not support the video tag.
‹⁄video›

You have to fill in the poster, as you need to show some image while the video is loading. Also the image shows when on mobile, as mobile browsers don’t load mp4 videos in pages. Also, if a older browser is used, they will only see the text message that you specify there. The autoplay part is for the video to start automatically on load and the loop will force the video to loop indefinitely.

Destination Budapest

I have been home for a week or two, so it’s time to travel again. For the next week I will be running around Budapet and then later Austira. And looking how hot it was last weeks, this will be a sweaty week :)

Plotagraph Pro

I have not uploaded an animated photo from Plotagraph Pro in a while, so I thought I share one with you. And since my favorite recent photo is this on of the Eiffel tower, I chosen this one.

And to show that this animation was not that easy, I’m including a screenshot of Plotagraph Pro, to show you how many points it took to animate this.

If you want to know more about how to create animated photos like this, check out my tutorial on how to do it here.

About this site

Here and there I get questions what I used to make this blog, and what plug-ins I use, so here is a list for those curious :)

• WordPress instalation – this blog runs on a self hosted wordpress intalation
• Amory WordPress Theme – currently I use the Amory theme, even if I used it more for the base layout, and I tweaked quite a lot of things about it
• Instagram feed plugin – thats the instagram feed at the bottom of every page
• Max Mega Menu Pro plugin – for the nice responsive menu on top
• Slider Revolution – for the big slider on top of the homepage
• Disqus plugin – this one is of course for the comments
• Contact Form 7 – I think the name explains this :)
• Mailchimp – for the newsletter
• PanoPress – for the few 360 photos that are on the page
• WP Super Cache – the caching system of the page, which in theory makes it faster
• Yoast SEO – the SEO of the page
• ConvertPlug – for popups when I need to add them
• Zoomify – zoom in plugin for huge panoramas

And thats almost all I use, there are few smaller one time things here and there, but nothing of much interest :)