yes, i finally got around to making this thread 
for those of you who are active enough around here, you might know what im talking about. im talking about THIS
and making it in 1 minute or less.
and a full example of the exploits of this program here
#######shamelessplug
as said in the title already, this is done with a nifty little tool called gifcam.
now, although i really want to put credit where credit is due. i can’t seem to find out who the original creator of this program is. i have seen someone mentioning this is made by someone on 4chan. and searching that guy on 4chan just to give his credit. pfft, i’d likely go there and would never come back. jk
anyway, i’ll put it here so it’s easy for you to download.
GifCam_5.1.zip (699.6 KB)
okay now to the tutorial.
##1
if you couldn’t figure it out already, you should download and extract the program.
##2
open it (duh!)
##3
something like this should appear.
now, you should keep in mind, gifcam will always stay on top of any Applications, except Windows Task Manager, or any other system critical programs
for now, let’s minimize it so it won’t get annoying.
##4
open your automation, and pick the car you want to showcase(if you haven’t already)
##5
let’s bring back that gifcam up.
before i continue, i should tell you how it works. so it will record a ‘video’ of anything that is within the transparent part of the window. i mean, THIS part.
so if you haven’t figured out what should you do.
resize the program’s window until is fits the whole car. until it looks somewhat like this.
##6
at this point, if you haven’t, and want to, use the ‘HideBuildings()’ trick now. i fact, i highly recommend it. a blank background usually results in reduced file size in the end
now, before we record, there’s a number of things to make sure.
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make sure you are on the overview tab, because we’re going to use the keyboard to rotate the car.
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make sure the whole car fits the frame before you record. so you should do a full rotation first to make sure nothing is being cut off screen. zoom out as needed.
now, to set up the setting on the gifcam.
if you noticed, there’s a drop down list right on the ‘REC’ button. click that and then click 16FPS.
(you can try different settings later, but i found 16 FPS to be a sufficient compromise. lower than 16FPS and the image gets too choppy, more than 16FPS and the file size gets out of control)
##7
NOW we’re ready to record.
with the car in place, and the gifcam already setup.
now, you need to do these as quick as you can.
once you press the record button, it will instantly record without delay, so.
CLICK REC → CLICK ANYWHERE IN THE AUTOMATION WINDOW → PRESS THE ARROW KEYS (in the direction you want it to turn)
and you need to click the STOP button once you do a rotation.
(with 16FPS, usually a full rotation takes about 199-206 frames, so try to aim around there when you press STOP)
##8
at this point, the ‘video’ is still stored on your RAM. you need to click Save first. but you can also add some filters before you save. but that is up to you to play around with the program. im just teaching you how to use it normally.
save, a progress bar will show up. although it’s pretty annoying that it can’t be minimized (with normal ways) and you just have to wait for it to finish.
##8.5
###extra but recommended step.
okay so now you have your gif. but most likely, the size is gonna be something like 5-6 MB, and that is not a tolerable size to be posted on a forum post.
so what you’d like to do is convert it into .webm format. it’s a much more modern and has a much better compression algorithm, resulting in the same quality with MUCH smaller filesize.
(it’s short, it’s a more efficient format for web)
you don’t need any program to do this. just use a web-based free converter. but you may want to try different sites, sometimes although the quality may not be affected much, some websites results in even smaller file size.
this is the website i usually like to use as it’s been the best one in both quality and small file size that i’ve found
##9
upload it to gfycat.com it’s the simplest animated pictures host and has some nice features.
you could skip step 8.5 and just upload the gif directly to gfycat, but they also convert the gif into .webm format still, that it REALLY compresses the file, so you would see a significant drop in quality.
like i have posted before
some might already have seen it before, but this is what it looks like when you skip step 8.5
GIF | Gfycat
you could see the colors are not so detailed anymore.
okay so that’s about it, the tutorial for the gifcam alone. at least, that’s how i’ve been doing it.
it’s not perfect, and if you look at it a while, you would see a bit of choppy-ness around the start/end of the loop, that is because of the ‘pause’ in step 7. between the time that i click Rec, and the time i click back at automation, and then start the rotation. it wastes around 3-5 frames just waiting.
you could edit it to erase the first/last couple of frames to remove that choppy-ness, but i haven’t tried editing gifs.
and if you have played around enough, you could make something like this. nice effect for old school effect
okay that’s it, questions ans discussions below.