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[Lordred]

White Bear 84, on 09 April 2013 - 04:15 PM, said:

Some nice images there, love how the water has come up and the gauss shot on the cat and explosions on the jager are my favorites. Very cool.. ..Does the gauss seriously look like that?

How do you get the image quality so high?

A: yes, gauss looks like that, its awsome.
B: I've edited the hex values for my drivers specific to MWO. (no game configuration files altered)

[Koniving]

<--Is the Catapult C1[F] and flamer Jagermech in the shots.

[Lordred]

Small image dump.

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Edited by Lordred, 15 April 2013 - 09:42 AM.

[Chavette]

Nice, but how many of these don't use sweetFX?

[Lordred]

None of the images use SweetFX, as I have stated.

I have made no changes to the user config other then FOV.
I have not in any way altered any files in the game

What I have done is altered the hex values for my display drivers, and make post game touch ups to the image.

These are purely how I think the game should look, and I think they make darn good wallpapers and wished to share.

[Lordred]

Image dump 2

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Edited by Lordred, 15 April 2013 - 09:43 AM.

[Lordred]

Image dump 3

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Edited by Lordred, 15 April 2013 - 09:43 AM.

[Koniving]

The catapults are me! WOO! YAY!

[Koniving]

Side by side of Lordred's view beside mine. Just FOV tweaks in both.

Koniving left. Lordred right.
Audio from both is just played at the beginning to show it is nearly perfectly synched, then it cuts to only my audio.

Edited by Koniving, 30 April 2013 - 09:39 AM.

[Lordred]

Image dump 4

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Edited by Lordred, 15 April 2013 - 09:44 AM.

[TexAce]

Lordred, on 10 April 2013 - 10:38 AM, said:

None of the images use SweetFX, as I have stated.

I have made no changes to the user config other then FOV.
I have not in any way altered any files in the game

What I have done is altered the hex values for my display drivers, and make post game touch ups to the image.

These are purely how I think the game should look, and I think they make darn good wallpapers and wished to share.

So WHAT exactly did you change then? And to accomplish what?

Looks really cool.

Edited by TexAss, 15 April 2013 - 07:16 AM.

[Lordred]

TexAss, on 15 April 2013 - 07:16 AM, said:

So WHAT exactly did you change then? And to accomplish what?

Looks really cool.

I went from the game controlling the AA (lack there of) and AF to forcing the drivers to control them completely, I also set the Occlusion to use the values from another game (Skyrim) when I had the AA forced really high under MSAA, CSAA, or SSAA the game would create all sorts of weird artifacts, massive performance issues and the like. Settling on FXAA (and only low amounts) at least afforded me slightly crisper images in game, and only slightly reduced the Aliasing problems this game has.



Starting with a base image which is as high quality as I can get the game to give me, and shooting it in a high quality format such as .PNG allows me to make several color/saturation/brightness/contrast/digital highlighting edits in the end, generally subtle ones) to result in a what I consider to be "fantastic" screen cap.

Here is the first image in this thread, unedited and edited to show the difference.

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On with the show.

Image dump 5
Random people version (was dropping solo)

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I know there are plenty of people who just look at the pretty pictures and go on their merry way, but I would love for some feedback, hear what people would like to see.

~Red

Edited by Lordred, 15 April 2013 - 09:44 AM.

[TexAce]

Lordred, on 15 April 2013 - 08:24 AM, said:

I went from the game controlling the AA (lack there of) and AF to forcing the drivers to control them completely, I also set the Occlusion to use the values from another game (Skyrim) when I had the AA forced really high under MSAA, CSAA, or SSAA the game would create all sorts of weird artifacts, massive performance issues and the like. Settling on FXAA (and only low amounts) at least afforded me slightly crisper images in game, and only slightly reduced the Aliasing problems this game has.



Starting with a base image which is as high quality as I can get the game to give me, and shooting it in a high quality format such as .PNG allows me to make several color/saturation/brightness/contrast/digital highlighting edits in the end, generally subtle ones) to result in a what I consider to be "fantastic" screen cap.

Here is the first image in this thread, unedited and edited to show the difference.

Isn't this stuff that you can also do with the nvidia control panel? Meaning letting nvidia choose the AF and AA settings instead of letting the application (MWO) do it?

[Lordred]

TexAss, on 15 April 2013 - 08:44 AM, said:

Isn't this stuff that you can also do with the nvidia control panel? Meaning letting nvidia choose the AF and AA settings instead of letting the application (MWO) do it?

To a degree yes, but not to the full extent of NV Inspector, you get the choice of override, but once you get into the game (since it launches as an admin) it can undo the override, the inspector program gives to a way around this with "Treat override as application controlled" and while you can control values for AA and AF in NVCP, you cannot have it use AA settings meant for other programs. I have done alot of back and forth testing and at least according to my eyes, it looks better using NV inspector.

[TexAce]

Lordred, on 15 April 2013 - 09:03 AM, said:

To a degree yes, but not to the full extent of NV Inspector, you get the choice of override, but once you get into the game (since it launches as an admin) it can undo the override, the inspector program gives to a way around this with "Treat override as application controlled" and while you can control values for AA and AF in NVCP, you cannot have it use AA settings meant for other programs. I have done alot of back and forth testing and at least according to my eyes, it looks better using NV inspector.

cool thansk for the explanation

[DifferentFish]

What are you in-game graphics settings? I want to know how you get those beautiful water reflections.

[Viper69]

Do they even have a key for grabbing screenshots ingame? Printscreen does not work for me and PGI has saw fit to not give us screen grabbing tools to do our reports with even though they ask for screenshots.

[Dr Killinger]

Very nice! If I could request, I'd say get some action shots from as wide a range of mechs and variants as possible. We all like to see our favorite mechs in lovely bright colours mid-battle

[TheJs]

Wow, really like what you did to get these nice pictures, whatever you did with the drivers and image editing.
I wish there was some way to quote individual pictures, but I particularly liked:
http://pumpgasracing...olfPedited3.jpg
http://pumpgasracing...Konvedited6.jpg
http://pumpgasracing...s/Pnyedited.jpg
http://pumpgasracing...avehedited2.jpg<< Really like how you caught the spider's motion
http://pumpgasracing...dits/Pinkie.jpg<<Hot Pink Highlander in all bluish background, really nice, blue jumpjet fire too
http://pumpgasracing...Hughedited1.jpg<< Just looks awesome(pun not intended). The perspective, the crystal jags showing all the way to the horizon, plus laser and dakka-dakka!

So far , if I had to choose, would say either http://pumpgasracing...Hughedited1.jpg or http://pumpgasracing...dits/Pinkie.jpg is the best.

[Lordred]

DifferentFish, on 16 April 2013 - 04:42 AM, said:

What are you in-game graphics settings? I want to know how you get those beautiful water reflections.

Everything is just set to very high (granted, there is no quality difference between high and very high currently) the reflections should be in there already. If you do not notice them, just check that you are on high at least.

Viper69, on 16 April 2013 - 04:55 AM, said:

Do they even have a key for grabbing screenshots in game? Printscreen does not work for me and PGI has saw fit to not give us screen grabbing tools to do our reports with even though they ask for screenshots.

You are correct and this is due to nature of the game, however there are wonderful third party programs which make getting screens shots a breeze, I use MSI Afterburner for my screenshot / video capture. It is a free and powerful overclocking utility with those features added to it, I also use it to monitor my GPU clock, Temp, Load, and Vram usage, which helps me track down if I am indeed making a difference or not with the hex values I am using.

Dr Killinger, on 16 April 2013 - 05:14 AM, said:

Very nice! If I could request, I'd say get some action shots from as wide a range of mechs and variants as possible. We all like to see our favorite mechs in lovely bright colours mid-battle

I plan to capture them all, most of the members of Zhi Zhu have a preference as to which mechs they use, so in order to get them all I will be dropping solo, but if you want to tag along with me I wont mind, just keep in mind while I am 'helpful' while I am hunting for screen shots, I play with the HUD off.

Playing camara commando for Koniving.

Kon Curses, once in this one, fair warning.

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TheJs, on 16 April 2013 - 05:29 AM, said:

Wow, really like what you did to get these nice pictures, whatever you did with the drivers and image editing.

Thanks.

Either some one wanted to rain on my parade or they didn't like being told 'Smile you're on Camera Commando'

Moments later I was dead.

Edited by Lordred, 16 April 2013 - 10:21 AM.