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[Mac OS X] SC2Look, Quick Look for SC2Replays

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brisywisy
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada10 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-08 21:10:42
November 08 2011 09:25 GMT
#1
I don't know how many people here use a Mac, but I've been working on this tool for a couple of weeks and thought I'd share it here.

The problem I've been having is I have a lot of Starcraft replays, and they are just opaque files. They look like this when you preview them:
[image loading]

I have to double click them and open them up to see who is playing who and who won, etc. So I developed this Quick Look plugin to allow previewing replay files. In the same way you can press space to see a preview of an image file, you can now see a preview of a Starcraft 2 replay. Just highlight the replay in Finder and hit the space bar. Below is an example:
[image loading]


Download here

Installation instructions:
open up Terminal and run these commands:
mkdir ~/Library/QuickLook
cd ~/Downloads # or wherever you downloaded it
unzip SC2Look.qlgenerator.zip
mv SC2Look.qlgenerator ~/Library/QuickLook/
qlmanage -r

Making it prettier:
If you open the bundle (right click, show package contents) and go to Contents/Resources/, you can see a collection of images and the html template. Please feel free to edit them and make it look nicer. It does still need work.
Logan_ps
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United Kingdom118 Posts
November 08 2011 10:29 GMT
#2
Awesome work there! Downloading it now. A very handy tool - cheers.
RoyalCheese
Profile Joined May 2010
Czech Republic745 Posts
November 08 2011 10:34 GMT
#3
Cool idea
Kennigit: "Chill was once able to retire really young, but decided to donate his entire salary TO SUPPORT ESPORTS"
phrase
Profile Joined August 2011
United States37 Posts
November 08 2011 10:36 GMT
#4
Hey, great work! I'll show this to my friend for sure
ticktack
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Arab Emirates874 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-08 10:40:13
November 08 2011 10:40 GMT
#5
wow this is an awesome idea!! totally gonna check it out
A winner is just a loser who got pissed off and tried harder
Matkap
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Spain627 Posts
November 08 2011 11:00 GMT
#6
wow thats really cool
A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
driftme
Profile Joined June 2010
United States360 Posts
November 08 2011 17:32 GMT
#7
great idea! an awesome thing would be to show the winner too.
brisywisy
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada10 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-08 17:34:47
November 08 2011 17:33 GMT
#8
Thanks for the positive response!

On November 09 2011 02:32 driftme wrote:
great idea! an awesome thing would be to show the winner too.


It puts a star next to the winning team. My plan is to add game duration, region name and maybe APM.
Noev
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1105 Posts
November 08 2011 17:39 GMT
#9
This is amazing i can't say how many file types quick look dose not support, its such a useful feature very nice work
PopcornColonel
Profile Joined March 2011
United States769 Posts
November 08 2011 21:04 GMT
#10
Holy crap, this looks great. Will definitely download when I get back on my mac.
Zerg delenda est.
Indrium
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2236 Posts
November 08 2011 21:52 GMT
#11
I actually use bootcamp to run SC2 but this is still a really nice, well done tool. Thanks for your work!
superjoppe
Profile Joined December 2004
Sweden3683 Posts
November 08 2011 21:53 GMT
#12
Awesome! /Mac user
brisywisy
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada10 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-08 22:10:44
November 08 2011 22:10 GMT
#13
On November 09 2011 06:52 Indrium wrote:
I actually use bootcamp to run SC2 but this is still a really nice, well done tool. Thanks for your work!


You're welcome. Is Windows better for SC2 because of DirectX? I forgot to mention this plugin works fine without SC2 installed.
ptmc
Profile Joined June 2010
Finland306 Posts
November 08 2011 22:16 GMT
#14
Hi, is this limited to 10.7? Because i can not seem to get it to work on 10.6.8.
Copying the bundle into my home library and restarting quicklookd works fine, but the preview doesn't change?

Thanks!
brisywisy
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada10 Posts
November 08 2011 22:21 GMT
#15
On November 09 2011 07:16 ptmc wrote:
Hi, is this limited to 10.7? Because i can not seem to get it to work on 10.6.8.
Copying the bundle into my home library and restarting quicklookd works fine, but the preview doesn't change?

Thanks!


Yes this version doesn't work on 10.6 because I forgot to compile for 10.6. I'll upload a new version tonight.
MattyClutch
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States711 Posts
November 08 2011 22:21 GMT
#16
I pretty much only play SC2 on my PC, but still a neat program. Will pick this up next time I am on my MacBook Pro. Thanks!
Nihn'kas Neehn
ptmc
Profile Joined June 2010
Finland306 Posts
November 08 2011 22:22 GMT
#17
On November 09 2011 07:21 brisywisy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2011 07:16 ptmc wrote:
Hi, is this limited to 10.7? Because i can not seem to get it to work on 10.6.8.
Copying the bundle into my home library and restarting quicklookd works fine, but the preview doesn't change?

Thanks!


Yes this version doesn't work on 10.6 because I forgot to compile for 10.6. I'll upload a new version tonight.


Sweet, thanks again!
tabbott26
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom379 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-08 22:22:48
November 08 2011 22:22 GMT
#18
Looks cool, will download!!

Would be EPIC too if this FFA were to occur...

EDIT: Or has it already??
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Echuu
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden42 Posts
November 08 2011 22:22 GMT
#19
Awesome, not much mac development going on in the Sc2 scene so always nice to see something like this. Thanks!
MajorProblem
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden14 Posts
November 08 2011 22:25 GMT
#20
Fantastic !!!

Quick Look extensions are really cool.
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