2015 PC Screenshot Thread of the Only Place Where Compression Isn't

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Damn, what mods are you using? can you post your mod list?
 
I have to hand it over to the console devs. You can really hide terrible texture quality, low-resolution and non-existent anti-aliasing behind a mountain of motion blur, cinematic bars, film grain and depth of field and tell people that they have incredible IQ.

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With that said, not many people are the biggest fan of heavy post-processing - YMMV.
 
Masochism Tango said:
So this is for Nick Pal and posting all the FC3.

I've been lurking around and actually really like some of those shots, but they get buried in with the ones that look more like "standard" gameplay snaps. There have been pages where it's almost unending FC3 because you've posted 6-7 separate times on a page with 2 shots each from it. That's a lot for a game that is pretty samey-looking (imo)

You've also posted 2 of the same shots on the same day, with only the tiniest hair of a difference between them (but probably without realizing it):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=150376802&postcount=1682
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=150471446&postcount=1713

Anyway, here's some that I liked:


And the lighting looks surprisingly good here


But there's some pretty iffy stuff too, like
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IMO it's almost like filler shots with no direction. They're more spontaneous maybe, but in the others I see some composition happening and some thought or gut about how you set it up. The thread isn't for beautiful artistic visions, but putting in what seems like filler just kinda serves to hide the nice stuff. Plus, if you really like this game why not show off in the best way you can and not muck it up and make us sick of seeing it. Sorry for a bit of a rant, but some selectivity can go a long way.

Btw dig the new color setup, being subdued actually makes it look more striking, strange as it sounds.
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Thank you! I really appreciate the constructive criticism. You make some valid points and in hindsight I have to agree, some of those shots are quite uninteresting. I think for those of us who treat this as a creative outlet and more as an art form if you will - this kind of criticism is welcomed and important I think. I have a background in fashion and I used to style and direct models for years so I'm really into composition. I often cropped photographers pictures for editorials so this I guess is my outlet now..lol. I'm not the best at capturing game screens but I take pride in it and I appreciate the effort you put in and as several others do on here.At the end of the day it's fun and we're not creating works of art here but still is nice to see. Actually one of your earlier shots from Dragon Age Inquisition where a single female is standing in a desert like location is still one of my favourites from the entire thread. (And not because you've been kind enough to point our some of the ones you have liked of mine :).

Thanks again!

I'm loving the new look too. Okay two more that I really like and that'll be it for a while.

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Nick Pal said:
I have a background in fashion and I used to style and direct models for years so I'm really into composition. I often cropped photographers pictures for editorials so this I guess is my outlet now
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Editorials and fashion photography? Niice. I sure can call 'em. It's neat to see how stuff will carry over like that, you definitely have an eye for it.

Nick Pal said:
Actually one of your earlier shots from Dragon Age Inquisition where a single female is standing in a desert like location is still one of my favourites from the entire thread
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Thanks as well, I have a few shots I put up here like that but you probably mean this. It's actually inspired by this scene I saw in a movie so I can't take credit for that composition, but I was pretty pleased to find a similar looking spot in the game.

And on your 2nd shot above, wow, the water isn't just this mass of radioactive jello like it normally seems to be. Something in your setting is giving the game a nice crisp clarity too... man it's weird to be seeing FC3 as an attractive game, but I like it!
 
Masochism Tango said:
Editorials and fashion photography? Niice. I sure can call 'em. It's neat to see how stuff will carry over like that, you definitely have an eye for it.


Thanks as well, I have a few shots I put up here like that but you probably mean this. It's actually inspired by this scene I saw in a movie so I can't take credit for that composition, but I was pretty pleased to find a similar looking spot in the game.

And on your 2nd shot above, wow, the water isn't just this mass of radioactive jello like it normally seems to be. Something in your setting is giving the game a nice crisp clarity too... man it's weird to be seeing FC3 as an attractive game, but I like it!
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Hahaha..mass of jello is such an apt description now that I think about it. Thanks man, I just adjusted a few of the settings while in game and tuned it until I felt it was as natural looking as possible. This is what I just love about PC gaming. Don't like the way a particular game looks or plays, no problem..somewhere on the net is a fix for it! Cheers, you definitely have an eye and I can spot your pictures before I've even looked at whose posted them.

Yes! That's the shot I'm talking about. That one image has stayed in my mind since and moves me every time I look at it. The one where she's riding a horse to the right hand side of the screen is a powerful shot too.
 
Mastereffect Reborn and Reshade. Adjusted swfx technicolor settings, gamma curve, contrast and strength of colour curve in filmicpass. I'll be posting these on the sweetfx settings database soon if anyone wants to use them.

Day and night cycle looks more natural as a result as well as the overall lighting (I think).

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galv said:
I have to hand it over to the console devs. You can really hide terrible texture quality, low-resolution and non-existent anti-aliasing behind a mountain of motion blur, cinematic bars, film grain and depth of field and tell people that they have incredible IQ.
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plz stop
 
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Little bird told me that the zombie shot was awkward because of the missing feet. I've been going over my shots, and apparently I do hate feet. Must be all the clipping, but yeah, I probably won't be able to shoot anything for a good while without minding the appendages. But that's how we learn, I guess.

And hey! Cyberpunked! Really like the tone mapping on those Star Citizen shots.
 
RK9039 said:
Damn, what mods are you using? can you post your mod list?
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I don't use mods. This style is achieved by skipping a lot of mipmap levels (can be done via the configuration file), I use GeDoSaTo for downsampling and anti-aliasing.
 
Guys, is there any good resource for reshade presets online? I looked on the reshade.me forums but there doesn't seem to be much. I was experimenting with it in Wolfenstein 09 but couldn't do jack shit with it, which was when I decided id be better using ones created be people who know what theyre doing lol
 
Brerlappin said:
Guys, is there any good resource for reshade presets online? I looked on the reshade.me forums but there doesn't seem to be much. I was experimenting with it in Wolfenstein 09 but couldn't do jack shit with it, which was when I decided id be better using ones created be people who know what theyre doing lol
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ReShade is still very much in its infancy. When you combine that with MasterEffect (which is also evolving), it gets a bit complicated. I've only seen maybe a handful of "presets" being created with it. A lot of folks I know still use it as a per-shot tweaking tool.

Though that's just my take on it. I'm kinda shit at coming up with "presets" though.
 
Brerlappin said:
Guys, is there any good resource for reshade presets online? I looked on the reshade.me forums but there doesn't seem to be much. I was experimenting with it in Wolfenstein 09 but couldn't do jack shit with it, which was when I decided id be better using ones created be people who know what theyre doing lol
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To add to what Jim has said, most people will happily share their settings as long as you ask them straight away. Very few of us keep all of our changes to our ReShade file saved but will happily share it if anyone asks, so you just need a bit of luck with timing and you should be able to get a preset you like.
 
Brerlappin said:
Guys, is there any good resource for reshade presets online? I looked on the reshade.me forums but there doesn't seem to be much. I was experimenting with it in Wolfenstein 09 but couldn't do jack shit with it, which was when I decided id be better using ones created be people who know what theyre doing lol
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Depending on what version of Reshade/Sweetfx you're using, you can find quite a lot of presets here.

http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/
 
Cheers for the answers :D It does seem quite complicated to get to grips with, hopefully when it evolves a bit more well see more and more cool stuff come of it. I did get some nice DOF working with wolf 09, but it just wasn't quite right
 
I'd usually scoff at letterboxing, but I've realised that if I use a really wide FoV (110) then the letterboxing hides the awful distortion that happens in the corners of the screen, so I lose some vertical space, but in return I get a much wider field of view without any noticeable distortion - a trade off that I can live with.

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Someone on these forums said the grass in FC3 only has two shades of green. I couldn't agree with you more but after some tweaking in Mastereffect it appears denser and there's more contrast between the colors.

For comparison here's a vanilla shot v's custom settings.

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Nick Pal said:
Someone on these forums said the grass in FC3 only has two shades of green. I couldn't agree with you more but after some tweaking in Mastereffect it appears denser and there's more contrast between the colors.
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That was me, although I think I said there were three shades - and I meant it! You're right though, your settings really help change the mood of the game and IMO improve its appearance. Vanilla Far Cry 3 is one of the many games that suffered from an unintentional cartoony/plasticky look, so countering that with ReShade is probably something I'll do if I play it again at some point.
 
Maybe it's because I never played the original Homeworld, but this game just feels clunky to me. I can barely figure out how to play it optimally, let alone take screenshots of it O_O
 
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