How about search playground assisted with visuals (video)?

[Kaushik]

Give me feedback if it would be helpful feature for playground search to be assisted with a very short small video clip of the running canvas?

If there are enough response, then we can find out how to implement it.

 

 

 

[Vousk-prod.]

This feature will charge playground server a lot, don't you think?

[Kaushik]

There are several strategy to build such GIFs. 

1. Playground server will run the code in headless mode and record canvas and then convert to small GIF and store on file system.
2. Whenever any user run any playground, check if the server has GIF, if not, record the canvas (running on client browser) and then send that data to the server. Next time any user need the GIF, server has it!

Basically these GIFs can be the recordings of first 5 seconds and then it gets compressed - so it will not be huge size. 

I do not think it would cost much to develop these feature and run it.

Current implementation of Playground search is not much useful. You get several hash code as a result. Which one you click? All of them, one by one?

 

[adam]

6 minutes ago, Kaushik said:

Current implementation of Playground search is not much useful.

It's very useful if you have an idea of what you are looking for.

[Kaushik]

It does search what you ask for. However navigating the results is challenging because you have to click through each link. There are not tagging, titles, etc. to give user clues about which one is the right one. User has to click and open each one by one.

 

[GameMonetize]

I know that @temechon has an item in his backlog regarding a better display of results

[Kaushik]

Is Playground open source? Meaning, someone can contribute?

[GameMonetize]

I cannot open source it yet but the doc itself is open source if you want to improve results display

[Dal]

Why not mod the playground to do a 

BABYLON.Tools.CreateScreenshot(engine, camera, (canvas.width,canvas.height));

whenever the playground is first run in a browser?

[Temechon]

We will have to host it on the documentation repo, and it's a github repo... Even for a small screenshot it would be a lot of required space.

We thought about seeing a little snippet of code containing the searched keyword.

 

[adam]

Maybe you could use imgur for hosting the gifs.

https://api.imgur.com/

[Kaushik]

Small size gifs does not take much space.

There are many Gif size reducers available: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=gif%20size%20reducer