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[Devil Fox]

Love the Firebrand shots, wouldn't mind a few Orion shots to garner an idea of it's shape and perspective on the field of battle.

Otherwise loving your work Lordred!

[MadPanda]

Lordred, on 13 September 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

forums were down while I was trying to post.

How do you make your shots look so colorfull and shiny? I tried to touch up a screenshot I took and it looks bad. Although I'll admit right away I'm a photoshop newb. Any tips you can give would be much appriciated.

[Lordred]

MadPanda, on 14 September 2013 - 12:37 PM, said:

How do you make your shots look so colorfull and shiny? I tried to touch up a screenshot I took and it looks bad. Although I'll admit right away I'm a photoshop newb. Any tips you can give would be much appriciated.

You have to start with a really high quality image from the get go, from there you work it into shape I start off with a picture at 3072x1920, and finish with an image at 1920x1200

[990Dreams]

New desktop BG. Thanks bro

[MadPanda]

Lordred, on 14 September 2013 - 01:00 PM, said:

You have to start with a really high quality image from the get go, from there you work it into shape I start off with a picture at 3072x1920, and finish with an image at 1920x1200

Ok, a dumb question; how do you get a really high quality image from the get go? I took a screenshot with fraps, 1920x1080px, and it is somewhat pixely. How do you take your screenshots?

[Lordred]

MadPanda, on 14 September 2013 - 01:53 PM, said:

Ok, a dumb question; how do you get a really high quality image from the get go? I took a screenshot with fraps, 1920x1080px, and it is somewhat pixely. How do you take your screenshots?

I've covered this though the last 28 pages but perhaps some more solid examples.

Here is a completly un-edited shot. Native resolution of 1920x1200 just with a few driver level tweeks.

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Now here is the exact same moment @ 3072x1920, then downsampled to 1920x1200

3072x1920

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Downsampled to 1920x1200

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See the difference?
Downsampled vs orginial

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But were not done yet, lets adjust the color saturation, and contrast a little.

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And the difference between where we started, and the final product.

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Edited by Lordred, 14 September 2013 - 02:59 PM.

[Blackfang]

I'd like to contribute this one which I had a mad keyboard moment to try and snap completely on a whim. Wolf Spiders leaping into action.

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[Koniving]

DavidHurricane, on 14 September 2013 - 01:12 PM, said:

New desktop BG. Thanks bro

Ooo, an early shot of my flamer Jager! Here it is in action with the new trademark oranges as recorded by Lordred. It's a JM6-S though (Lordred, update that title!). Also in here is another vid comparing the crosshair of 1PV and 3PV.

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This one's in my perspective, with music after explaining something interesting about 3PV and 1PV

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Lordred, on 11 September 2013 - 12:25 PM, said:

hide your kids hide your wife koniving and Lordred will be dropping after 7 p.m..

Also, here's a vid with me in my Misery near the end of which Lordred pops on to scold me for not being on. With that, I apologize to you, the fans. Gomen nasai!

[MadPanda]

Here's my attempt. Doesn't look anything like your pics . The original image was pretty dark, so what I've done is made it brighter and brought some color into it (and few other adjustments).

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[Skye Storm]

Here's my attempt he says so casually...

[aniviron]

So for those of you who really like your long lenses, here's a tip: I've been finding advanced zoom indispensable lately. If you hit shift-f11 to disable the hud while using advanced zoom, it removes the pip in the center of the screen as well, leaving you with a roughly 3.5x magnification. Plus, it lets you snap shots quickly and then get back to playing. The spoiler will have a few shots I took today after finding this out. It also lets you take screenshots in more mechs without having the cockpit get in the way, especially if you use ctrl to freelook while you do so (that said, I did still manage to get my HBK's monitors on the bottom of one of the set below).

Also, my apologies if I missed it earlier in the thread, but has anyone found a way to truly disable motion blur? I've got it off in the options menus, but it persists in-game no matter what I do. It's maddening; not only does it make the game look bad in general, but it makes taking good screenshots of action nigh-impossible. The four I've uploaded suffer only modestly from this, but most of the shots I take wind up looking like I shot on a half second shutter speed.

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Edited by aniviron, 14 September 2013 - 09:52 PM.

[Lordred]

Do you want to follow Koniving for nine min? ya you do.

Posted as of Midnight, waiting on higher quality to process.

Edited by Lordred, 15 September 2013 - 11:17 PM.

[Lordred]

The IKBoSy ride along video.

[Koniving]

The second match of this freshly vid has Lordred stalking me for pictures.

[MadPanda]

MadPanda's mission log, entry #37:

There were bunch of us going for a cap on enemy cap point Gamma. Me and the cicada arrived there first. We positioned ourselves behind the cap structure so our backs were to the maps bounds. I turned to face the cap structure while waiting the cap to tick down. Suddenly there was a big boom just to my right. It sounded like the combined hit of LRM's and PPC's. I turned to my right and saw nothing there, just the empty terrain. I wondered to myself, wasn't there a cicada here with me? I wonder if he ran off to cap another point, but what was the weapons sound then? I wasn't hit by it. I thought oh my god, I hope I'm not standing on the cicadas dead body. I slowly backed up and then I saw something horrible. What I saw truly traumatized me. It was horrible.

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[Evil Archer]

[Buckminster]

Whoa, camo that actually works!

Until you are dropped on Alpine...

[Koniving]

Mighty Spike, on 06 July 2013 - 12:00 AM, said:

lol,ya its sounds strange to hear his own voice....nice vids guys..but Koniving,your first build was with pulse lasers? Was too hot on other maps?

You know, I never saw that question til now.

We had a few iterations of the design. But yes one of the problems is that the MPLs were too hot so we had SLs to back them up. We also tried MLs and SPLs. My current design calls for 5 SPLs and the AC/2. Works pretty well but needs to get awfully close.

Btw if you forgot or have no idea what I'm talking about... Click the arrow in the upper left it'll take you back to what page that question was on.

Edited by Koniving, 03 October 2013 - 09:30 AM.

[Koniving]

While we're here, Lordred chose to do video of me in a Hunch. Here's how it turned out.

XL engine, LB-10, 2 MGs, 2 SPL, 7 kills, 700+ damage.

[Koniving]

Due to some issues with a motion-blur like effect constantly running on MWO, we're unable to take pictures or video. Removing post process and AA doesn't fix it. The Motion blur is off. PGI please address the graphical issues.