Hey G&T, have you ever come across a beautiful vista, a hidden easter egg, a cool moment, or a humorous glitch in a video game? Did you cap it?
We haven't had a screenshot thread in a long time, but the mods gave the go ahead for a new one, so hooray us. There are some ground rules though:
RULES:
- You can only post screenshots
you actually took yourself. Nothing you find on IGN or GameFaqs or Dead End Thrills or whatever.
- Vanilla doesn't resize images or scroll when they're in a spoiler, but it will resize images that are posted inline, so don't worry about raping anyone's h-scroll. However,
- Any screenshot that spoils a game
must be in a spoiler.
- No NSFW screenshots.
- Limit your shots to ten per post. Multiple posts in a row are fine, but a softlimit of ten large images per post should help break up the pages better.
- If you're posting a shot from a console game, make sure you crop out any borders or titlebars that could get you into trouble (clarification - The forums are fairly strict regarding emulation, so posting a PS1 game screen is fine, but posting a PS1 game screen with an EPSXE titlebar will get you into trouble)
HOW DO I SHOT SCREEN?
For PC games, there are a number of different methods you can use. A lot of games have a built in screenshot capability (usually bindable) that will output a shot somewhere in the game's directory. You can also use a capturing program like Fraps to take shots (this will allow you to alter the output format, which will determine your quality and filesize). Lastly, you can take screenshots in any Steam game that supports the overlay (default key is F5).
For console games, you're basically limited to owning a development system, or running your console through a capture card. There are some rare games that allow you to save screenshots, and there are some tools that will allow a PSP owner to take screenshots of games running on their system as well.
HOW DO I GET RID OF THAT STUPID HUD?
For Source Engine games:
Here's a shot of Half Life Source:
If I pull down the console and type "cl_drawhud 0" without quotation marks the HUD will disappear:
If I type "impulse 200" the weapon model will disappear:
Typing "cl_drawhud 1" will turn your hud back on, and changing weapons will bring your weapon model back.
For Unreal Engine games:
Generally, pulling down the console and typing "ToggleHud" without quotation marks once will remove the HUD, typing it again will return it. Examples from Unreal 2:
For Gamebryo Engine games:
To remove the HUD in Skyrim/Fallout 3/etc, pull down the console using the ~ key, than type "tm" without quotation marks and press enter. This is the "toggle menu" command. When entered, your HUD will disappear, but so will the console. Press the ~ key again and the invisible console will close. Then, after taking your shot(s), hit the ~ key again (it will still be invisible), type tm, press enter, and your console and HUD will be back. Then press ~ again to close the console.
Also, Gamebryo games have a command that will allow you to enter a free camera mode, which will pause the game and let you move your camera using WASD independent of your character to set up action shots. The console command for this is "tfc" (for Toggle Free Camera). Entering "tfc 1" into the console will activate it, and entering "tfc 0" will return the game to normal.
I don't have any demonstration shots, but if you have any images you'd like to volunteer let me know and I'll add them.
These are some of the most popular game engines today. If you have info on cleaning up shots for other games or game engines, let me know and I'll add it here.
I TOOK A COOL SHOT OF A BANDIT GETTING SUCKED INTO AN ANOMALY IN STALKER, HOW DO I SHOW IT TO PEOPLE?
The easiest way is to find a free image hosting website and create an account. Photobucket, Imgur, Imageshack, and TinyPic are some of them.
A note on linking images from your Steam Cloud:
To make Steam cloud shots work with the img tags on the Vanilla forum, you need to add "?.jpg" after the final slash in each one's URL.
So, if you saw anything cool in a game, documented something unusual, or just want to flex your e-peen with a 2048x1152 shot of Metro 2033 running at 90fps than go ahead and post it so we can all check it out and talk about it. I want to stress that this thread isn't just for highrez money shots, anything that is interesting or cool or amusing should be posted, no matter what the resolution or graphical settings you were running at the time.
I'll kick us off:
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If there's one thing X3:TC does well, it's making space look really pretty. But it does lots of stuff well.
One thing I noticed looking through people's screens of DX:HR is that everyone caps this.
Someone I managed to blow up.
This was in the middle of the night at the army blockade in Cordon. Something added in Complete 2009, I think.
Me picking the ball off Derek Rose in my rookie year of My Player. The jerseys, court, accessories, skin, Rose face and shoes, and Deng face are all mods. Not pictured is the ENB shadow mod making everything look even better.
Witcher 2
All settings max (ubersampling disabled), 1680x1050
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
NVM, Spoit is right it breaks the resizing.
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613847892710398354/863B602648B9EA3731930FEEFD8340913BFB4098/
I also love SupCom2. So many units. So many.
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613842195074535083/438E034F6FBC2365543770D543CEEFE99614F93D/
All the land units on the left are my friend's ships walking on land.
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/612715648949852953/1DB45623E707B7C1F18E12F789CFC59572FF5D6E/
EYE: Divine Cybermancy had some pretty cool scenery
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I love playing The Hidden when the person who is actually playing the hidden leaves bodies hanging around. Just a real sick fucker, ya know?
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/559785036038444752/7DBAED83251CDDC4EAB9ACA327181C0A482D5568/
It's hard to tell, but this was on a Mount and Blade server with about 115 people playing, once they fought their way up the ramp and got through the gates it was pure chaos (I was an archer defending for most of that round, before I switched to defend the gate).
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560902241186747308/05D9FEE729F94A18ABE3ACAE5A353D3EB496788D/
Behold! Snog the Goblin Bloodmage!
Christ almighty, I had almost forgot about this game.
I'll have to root around some more. I know I have screens of one of (several) Penny Arcadian attempts to settle in Wurm Online. In fact most of my screens generally involve PA shenanigans in various online games.
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@Darmak
Fuck yeah! I love The Hidden when the enemy has a sense of the dramatic.
I am pretty proud of that time I beat the EX stage in Touhou 11 without dying.
All settings max, 1680x1050
No mods or anything, vanilla game on mostly high at 1680 x 1050
Tanking up water for trade from the ice ring around Olympus Delta, with some friendly capital ships on patrol in the background.
Leaving the Olympus Delta orbital starbase after selling off the water for some quick and easy creds. On my way to the Olympus Delta surface to search for the location of a shipwreck with some nice goods I got wind of.
Approaching the terminator, you can see the pre-dawn glow of the star Olympus that Olympus Delta orbits. This storm is giving my low grade atmospheric flight wings a good bit of turbulence.
Dogfight in the atmosphere of Olympus Delta! These rebel scumbags spotted me from space, and burned down to take me out. I got this one but good, before his wingman blew my ship out from under me. Next time I go looking for that shipwreck I'm reconfiguring my frame for atmospheric combat. Remembering to resupply my missile hardpoints would be good too.
Believe me when I say these Mirror's Edge shots are large enough that I need to link to them:
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Though I think linking that many screenshots is the considerate thing to do.
All settings max, 1680x1050
Halo 3 (remember that game?)
i have reach screen shots but i have too many, gonna have to pick them carefully
All settings high (motion blur off), 1680x1050
I love this game. It's a perfect example of classic Sega arcade game design.
All settings max, 1680x1050
The following screenshot taken with shadows on low and SSAO disabled. Don't try this at home, she's a professional russian.
My son calls my super villain boss with the red face paint Captain Kills. He's four. Such an awesome age.
Yeah. Outrun Online Arcade (which is Outrun 2 SP without any of the Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast content) was released on XBLA and PSN (on the Xbox only in the US), but was pulled from both services as well. The prevailing theory is that Sega lost the Ferrari license and had to pull all current Outrun games as a result. You can still find physical copies of Outrun 2006 on the PS2 and PSP though.
As for how it would run on your rig, on my ancient single core Athlon 64 4000+ at 2.4GHz with 3GB of RAM and a 1GB 4670 it never drops below 60fps, even when recording gameplay with fraps (the engine is capped at 60fps). On the same rig with a dangerously anemic 512MB PCI 8400GS the game was still very playable. There aren't a lot of graphical options other than resolution, AA, and fogging, but you should be able to force better AA through your GPU's control panel. As for compatibility, I'm running Vista32, so you should be fine with Windows 7, but Microsoft vets it as well.
The multiplayer servers are down, but it's playable over LAN, which means it should be tunnelable.
I'm a big fan of imgur personally. No signup required, just go to imgur.com and go.
Very high settings, everything enabled, 1680x1050. Blurred images are due to character wearing gas mask.
Following pics show the outstanding lighting effects.
The Lone Wanderer engages in a desperate firefight under Project Purity which has already claimed Bittercup and Susan Lyons.
An Enclave Hellfire trooper (not the PC) crouches as Sydney reloads behind a shattered column in the background.
Max settings, 1680x1050.
Thanks!
Off the top of my head, my mod list runs something like this:
-FWE
-FOOK
-Sydney Companion (best damn companion mod out there)
-Bittercup Companion
-EVE
-MMM
-Fellout
-Enhanced Weather
That's just off the top of my head, there's definitely a bunch more minor ones I've forgotten.
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Bonus: a Portal 2 picture
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I really like these two shots from Dead Rising 2
http://deadendthrills.com/
Guy spends his time taking very, very well composed screenshots. A lot of genuinely gorgeous stuff here.
Skyrim (1366x768, High Settings)
Red Orchestra 2 (1366x768, low settings)
The AI in RO2 is patchy at best
Payday: The Heist (1366x768)
C'mon guys, lets get back to the task in hand!
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