AnyoneInCherno
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No need to be rude - explaining it would have taken the same amount of time. Not everyone knows how to do these things and nobody has complained about it as far as I've seen.
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2014 High-Res PC Screenshot Thread of the Last Hope for Image Quality
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No need to be rude - explaining it would have taken the same amount of time. Not everyone knows how to do these things and nobody has complained about it as far as I've seen.
Confidence Man
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Skyrim
jim2point0
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Yeeah... I shouldn't be on the internet today. Not having the best of days which makes me sour. Sorry about that.
Betrayer
AnyoneInCherno
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No problem. I shouldn't have pointed it out anyway - what's done is done, right? Thanks for the heads up anyway, I'll make sure I get the post formatting right next time.
Denton
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Looks surprisingly great. What engine are they using ?
I wonder if it sold enough to keep the studio afloat. There is like zero hype about it.
jim2point0
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Betrayer is Unreal Engine 3.
The default look for this game is very stark black and white. But you have the option to add color back in via sliders. You can also adjust contrast by tweaking lights\darks. Black and white is certainly an interesting experience... but some people don't like it.
The default look for this game is very stark black and white. But you have the option to add color back in via sliders. You can also adjust contrast by tweaking lights\darks. Black and white is certainly an interesting experience... but some people don't like it.
Brerlappin
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Brerlappin
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I'm really conflicted on that because on one hand I think the best choice is almost always to give the consumer as much control over the game as possible. But on the other hand, I like the idea of them 100% backing up their look, designing for it, and standing behind it as such. Part of that has to do with my appreciation for weird, unusual, or atypical visual styles in games and the stark black and white world always seemed visually outstanding to me.
Hey bud you've gotta take a second look on that film grain because it's performing some type of visual murder on your IQ.
BONKERS
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Looks fine to me other than looking like it's been sharpened in someway
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Are these taken via freecam or something? Didn't play that game yet (not sure if I ever will) but looks great!
Yep that's what I'm referring to.
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Ok ok, calm the F down... it`s a photo of Chloe Dykstra. But after looking around here and there what some people did with mods and how they've taken screenshots... they are not far off from that. Mithras (for example, also posts here I believe, damn nice!
Also, I give up trying to change the color of the water (do you need the creation kit for that?)
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And having modded a game for the first this heavy, my fear that it is too time consuming has come true. It's great what you can do and I'm glad that all this is possible but I'm just beginning to understand roughly how ENB's work and it seems that in there are a lot of options to really change the look of the game. Not very well documented.
AnyoneInCherno
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I recently replayed AC 4 to get 100% in it (hyped for AC 5) because Uplay didn't keep my saves. Good game and all but I was a bit disappointed at how ridiculously easy it is, and I missed the serious tone from AC 1, so I just had to replay that game again. Haven't touched it since I completed it on the 360 back in 2009 so it was nice to replay it on PC.
jim2point0
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I tried to go online as a spectator in actual servers to try the cinematic tools. So far Punkbuster hasn't kicked me yet 
Here's a few I took last night. I could get better shots but it's hard. Gotta be where the action is to pause the game at the right moment. Character models will not update while the game is paused, so if you move the camera too far from where you paused it, you'll get lower res textures and character models
Here's a few I took last night. I could get better shots but it's hard. Gotta be where the action is to pause the game at the right moment. Character models will not update while the game is paused, so if you move the camera too far from where you paused it, you'll get lower res textures and character models
jim2point0
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BONKERS
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Perhaps is using Lumasharpen over SGSSAA?
I'd imagine that'd have to be the culprit, because it looks really sharp for 2xSGSSAA
Brerlappin
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The film grain is in game, and IMO it adds to the 50's B-Movie atmosphere of the game. I think it would lose some of its charm without it
Oh and there is some SweetFX in there too which is prob whats doing the sharpening.
The game is a fucker for Aliasing. Downsampling doesn't do much for it, and the only thing I found that eliminated jaggies was 4xSGSSAA, but its really performance killing, even on an i74770 and a GTX 770. So 2xSGSSAA was the sweet spot for me. In game AA is FXAA, if you put it on high, it feels like you just slathered Vaseline all over your eyes
AnyoneInCherno
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jim2point0
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Those are some nice AC1 shots!
8K + SweetFX? How'd you manage that?
Few more BF4 multiplayer shots
8K + SweetFX? How'd you manage that?
Few more BF4 multiplayer shots
jim2point0
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AnyoneInCherno
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Thanks Jim.
The game actually runs surprisingly well at 8K (using Gedosato) as long as you turn post-processing off and don't force any hardware AA. The game's vanilla postprocessing doesn't make much of a difference but the changes it makes to the depth of field can murder the framerate in certain scenarios so it really isn't worth it, especially because there is no visible difference when playing at a really high res. I used Gedosato's built-in postprocessing for everything else and SweetFx for the black and white, and now, vignette. The game can actually look pretty stunning in motion considering it's 7 years old.
The game actually runs surprisingly well at 8K (using Gedosato) as long as you turn post-processing off and don't force any hardware AA. The game's vanilla postprocessing doesn't make much of a difference but the changes it makes to the depth of field can murder the framerate in certain scenarios so it really isn't worth it, especially because there is no visible difference when playing at a really high res. I used Gedosato's built-in postprocessing for everything else and SweetFx for the black and white, and now, vignette. The game can actually look pretty stunning in motion considering it's 7 years old.
The Janitor
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NightLastMare
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Hello, this is my first message in NeoGaf, hope you like my 8K screenshots
jim2point0
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GroinShooter
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Yeah the FG is fine, I am a big fan of it as we all know. Just think the sharpening is over doing it a little maybe
Thanks for mentioning the quality setting, it prompted me to check what I've been using (100%). Just tested with a couple images and found that setting quality to 98% has reduce'd the image size from 1.91MB to 1.19MB, a pretty big savings given the almost negligable difference in quality (at least to my eyes!).
jim2point0
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I liked the flying shell cases:
Teamwork!
Teamwork!
Yeah glad to share it. If you want to understand how we got to that point, check out starting at post #426 in this thread and read onward. We figure out that a level 12 Photoshop image is equivalent to about a level 98-99 Faststone image. The difference in IQ is nearly indistinguishable, but the difference in file size is massive.
^ My hard drive thanks you. =)
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Figured out a really strange way of forcing the relaxed menu pose and still have free camera. Rough details.
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Figured out a really strange way of forcing the relaxed menu pose and still have free camera. Rough details.
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