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Save Timelapse v0.1.0

First tagged release. ⚠️ Alpha the core pipeline works end to end, but expect bugs, missing features, and breaking changes between releases.

Build an interactive timelapse of your Factorio factory from save files you already have, or while you play.

Getting started

Download save-timelapse-v0.1.0-windows-x64.zip below, unzip it anywhere, and run save-timelapse.exe. No flags, nothing to install it asks what you want to do:

  1. Update my timelapse from live capture for saves with the save-timelapse-live-capture mod setting turned on.
  2. Build a timelapse from existing save files reconstructs a timelapse from saves already sitting in your saves folder, including autosaves.

Either way it opens the interactive viewer automatically when it's done. If it can't find your Factorio install or saves folder, it asks for the path in plain language instead of failing silently.

Features

  • 📦 Build timelapses from existing save files, including autosaves from a factory started months ago
  • 🎮 Live capture: one baseline snapshot, then only incremental construction events afterward, tagged per playthrough so saves from different games never get mixed into one timelapse
  • 🗺️ Interactive viewer: pan, zoom, timeline scrubbing, play/pause, home/end navigation
  • 🌍 Multi-surface support tab switches between Nauvis, platforms, and other planets
  • ⚡ Chunked renderer with automatic level-of-detail rendering and parallel frame loading
  • 🔧 One executable, no Python, other command-line tools, or FFmpeg required

Known limitations

  • Live capture only covers play from the moment it's turned on Factorio keeps no placement history to recover retroactively
  • Windows only for this release
  • See the Roadmap for what's planned next

What's included in the zip

  • save-timelapse.exe the interactive tool
  • viewer.exe the timelapse viewer, launched automatically by save-timelapse.exe
  • mod/ the Factorio mod, needed for both live capture and the from-saves export flow (drop it in your Factorio mods folder to enable live capture; the from-saves flow stages it automatically)

Full changelog: https://github.com/rephyr/save-timelapse/commits/v0.1.0

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