Phreakuency
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This orc looks like a Michael Bay turtle...
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2014 High-Res PC Screenshot Thread of the Last Hope for Image Quality
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This orc looks like a Michael Bay turtle...
Mine are low quality compressed JPEGs?
I Fraps them, in bmp format, and then I upload to Flickr like recommend.
What I'm I doing wrong?
When uploading BMP's to Flickr, Flickr compresses them and turns them into JPEGs.
My recommendations:
Either capture PNGs with Fraps and upload those straight to Flickr
or (and it would be preferred if you did this, especially if you plan to post 1440p images)
convert your screenshots using Photoshop or FastStone to JPEG with level 12 or 98% quality respectively, then upload those to Flickr.
That'll get you great quality screenshots to share here with out the thick layers of compression.
Thanks! I'd been itching to find a scene I wanted to try out the Sin City shader with.Loving these "Sin City like" shots. Nice.
ohhh interesting. I do not downsample at all, so that must be it
thanks for the info
HolyFridge
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HolyFridge
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Drunken Master
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Masochism Tango
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Best shots I've seen of it.
GavinUK86
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Some old ones I was looking at.
I just LOVE how The Wolf Among us looks.
Yeah me too, the style is so good to look at over The Walking Dead.
jim2point0
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legacyzero
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Yeah, but's its from Fridge, though. You can always expect amazing shots from the Fridge.
Phreakuency
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Some old ones I was looking at.
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That looks stunning.
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Ooooof. Great looking grass.
jim2point0
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Was trying to figure out a way to retain depth of field while using timestop during stealth attacks or finishers.
Very limited use though.
Very limited use though.
Morrigan Stark
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Question about Shadow of Mordor: are there any um, how to say... more "Tolkienesque" environments and architecture in the game? Don't get me wrong, I think the graphics looks very good, but it seems that every screenshot shows some shantytown or crumbled ruins. I know you're fighting orcs for the most part, but the comparisons to AssCreed got me wondering. The only part of AssCreed I really liked was the amazing architecture, and parkouring in Rivendell- or Minas Tirith-like areas sound cool, but I don't know if there's any of that. ^^
GavinUK86
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No, not really.
jim2point0
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The game is very light on architecture. And geometry for that matter. It's just a giant low-poly arena for you to kill orcs in, basically.
Morrigan Stark
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Well, that's disappointing from a LotR game. Thanks for the answers.
Hell, I don't even mind the "low geometry" much, to be honest. Anor Londo is probably "low geometry", but it's still amazing to look at and explore. A Middle-Earth game has so many opportunities to show off great locales. Oh well...
I love these executions. They never get old. Banding on the other hand... gets very old.
looks like one of those ubisoft bullshots. great IQ
lol a fucking strip club. Fuck video games.
There's a huge statue in the game that looks like LEGO. That should inform you how the architecture design is up to the detail of John Howe or Alan Lee.
jim2point0
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heh it looked worse in my playthrough, probably because of the draw distance
Nero's Neptune
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Giving this another go. It's funny, I last played it only a few months ago, yet I'm enjoying it a lot. Usually a game like this I have to give a year or more to get back into.
EDIT: Just noticed the SGSSAA gives it a blurry look. Odd, I have the LOD bias set right. The AA bit must not play nice with this game.
EDIT: Just noticed the SGSSAA gives it a blurry look. Odd, I have the LOD bias set right. The AA bit must not play nice with this game.
Spazznid
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*Cough* I remember being stuck in that area for a long time... Can't really say why, though... *Cough*
BONKERS
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Giving this another go. It's funny, I last played it only a few months ago, yet I'm enjoying it a lot. Usually a game like this I have to give a year or more to get back into.
EDIT: Just noticed the SGSSAA gives it a blurry look. Odd, I have the LOD bias set right. The AA bit must not play nice with this game.
That or specific settings within the game.
Try 4x with 1.5x1.5 downsampling
or just 8x
It does seem the game has, in the DoF shot for example, low quality DoF that has a ton of undersampling issues that SGSSAA just happens to be missing.
Are you using 0x004010C0?
Looking back at the references, it does seem like there has never really been any exhaustive or extensive testing or comparison of flags for this game.
I'd do it myself. But i'm adverse to Bioware games (Don't like'em) and don't have it.
Maybe i'll have to pick it up next sale just to test it for issues.
lostsupper
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Naked ladies are so gross, am I right?
Nero's Neptune
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Yep, using that bit.
It seems to be conflicting with frame buffer effects.
SGSSAA with Frame Buffer Effects.
SGSSAA without Frame Buffer Effects.
No AA with Frame Buffer Effects.
Giving this another go. It's funny, I last played it only a few months ago, yet I'm enjoying it a lot. Usually a game like this I have to give a year or more to get back into.
EDIT: Just noticed the SGSSAA gives it a blurry look. Odd, I have the LOD bias set right. The AA bit must not play nice with this game.
I kicked around with the game a bit couple months back and found that MSAA and TSAA work without issues with the 0x00000040 compatibility flag on Inspector. I also removed the vignette by replacing the vignette texture with a fully transparent texture.
It still looks rotten compared to the first Mass Effect. Self-shadowing would've gone a long way. I never finished it, but if that new one makes me want to care about that series' lore I might revisit it. If I pick it up to begin with, that is.
BONKERS
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Does look like maybe just some post processing? Wonder if could be mimmicked with SweetFX?
GeDoSaTo may be a better solution for this specific game though. (Unless downsampling+SGSSAA helps fix the issue without introducing it's own issues like shimmering/crawl. Which does happen with some games. EG: Two Worlds II, Bioshock)
If using a 9xx GPU, then DSR may be even better
GeDoSaTo may be a better solution for this specific game though. (Unless downsampling+SGSSAA helps fix the issue without introducing it's own issues like shimmering/crawl. Which does happen with some games. EG: Two Worlds II, Bioshock)
If using a 9xx GPU, then DSR may be even better
no it's just uncreative and unimaginative developers who cynically consider their audience to be horny little teenage boys so they constantly put in strip clubs, brothels, burlesques, prostitutes, and what have you in their carefully designed and marketed video game based on primitive demographics research. Video game scenery can be *anything* in the world, but we just gotta have those pandering strip clubs you know.
Phreakuency
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CyberPunked
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Lol, calm down. It's a hologram dancing around a pole. I love how with all the blood and guts everywhere the only thing that your disgusted by being "uncreative" is the naked hologram.
Two things I want to say about this after which I'm going to stop to not derail this beautiful thread completely.
Firstly, I'm trying to remember the last game I've played that had a stripclub in it and I actually can't remember so I wouldn't say it's a very common theme. Could just be the games I play though.
Secondly, I think it's a bit harsh to call every game that uses elements like strip clubs and brothels pandering. It depends on the context. Books do it, movies do it occasionally and I don't see a reason why videogames couldn't. If it fits with the story you're telling or the world you're creating and you do it appropriately then that's completely fine with me because like you said, videogame scenery can be anything.
It is absolutely fair to critcise the implementation and there are some pretty bad examples. What immediately comes to mind here is the Saboteur, which was extra gross because there was a DLC to have uncensored boobs if I remember correctly. That's dumb and not the point. I don't play videogames to look at boobs, plenty of other places I can do that. I just think you shouldn't necessarily generalise.
Nice looking avatar btw.
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