Took some HIGH-RES (3840x2400) pics of the demo...

[AluminumHaste]

But I already posted this at rage3d.com, Link

 

They are compressed a lot but are still nice to look at.

[Dram]

Yeah that's pretty cool. I assume you used your monitor's resolution for it? I think there is actually an internal function in D3 to take a screenie at a specified res, which would mean you could essentially take hi res shots of even 16000 pixels etc.

[AluminumHaste]

Yeah that's pretty cool. I assume you used your monitor's resolution for it? I think there is actually an internal function in D3 to take a screenie at a specified res, which would mean you could essentially take hi res shots of even 16000 pixels etc.

 

that's what I did,

 

BIND F11 screenshot 3840 2400

 

Then hit F11 in game and it will take the screeny at that res. I tried it and went all the way up to 10,000 x 8,000, but each pic was like 500MB

[oDDity]

"thanks for the info, judgind by the screenshots, I really thought it was just some mod for thief 3. They really nailed the look. I just hope all the thief 3 levls will be done soon."

 

These are the sort of retards he hangs out with apparently.

[phide]

I think there is actually an internal function in D3 to take a screenie at a specified res, which would mean you could essentially take hi res shots of even 16000 pixels etc.

The only issue with it is that is buggers up the compositing (it takes multiple shots at a low resolution and stitches them together) if there's some sort of visible heat haze/framebuffer distortion going on. It's a little unfortunate id never fixed that, really.

 

Nice shots, Haste.

 

These are the sort of retards he hangs out with apparently.

Rage3D has always been an ATi fanboy-type hangout. And, yeah, mental deficiency is rampant there...just like everywhere else, I guess.

 

There are always a few diamonds in the rough, of course.

[Dram]

The only issue with it is that is buggers up the compositing (it takes multiple shots at a low resolution and stitches them together) if there's some sort of visible heat haze/framebuffer distortion going on. It's a little unfortunate id never fixed that, really.

 

Actually, I remember that if you froze time (via g_stoptime 1) the heathaze effect and all anims etc froze also, thus, you could take an uber-hi-res shot and not screw up the compositing. Though I never tried this.

[Gildoran]

Actually, I remember that if you froze time (via g_stoptime 1) the heathaze effect and all anims etc froze also, thus, you could take an uber-hi-res shot and not screw up the compositing. Though I never tried this.

The problem arises when heat-haze tries to reference something offscreen... Since each section of the screenshot is rendered seperately, heat-haze in one screen can't reference an adjacent screen, resulting in discontinuities at the borders between screens.

 

Unfortunately, it's non-trivial to fix in general.

[AluminumHaste]

Yeah I just looked at one of the really high res pics (7680x4800) and you can definitely see the error in the water running down the street.

I cropped the section of the error

 

[jdude]

I don't see anything

[AluminumHaste]

I circled it in red, the reflections in the stream are broken up by a line that runs straight up and down. It's not that noticeable, but it's still there.

This isn't a bid deal as you don't play like this, this is just for taking super high res screenshots. I was just posting this to illustrate what Gildoran was pointing out.

[jdude]

Isn't that just a raindrop though?

[Gildoran]

It's pretty hard to see in that screenshot, but if you look to the left of the raindrop, there's a vertical discontinuity in the water stream.

[jdude]

OHHHhhhh... haha, yea I don't think that's to much of a big deal, it may have been a problem with syncing I dunno. Either way I've never noticed this before. *I had to lean around my lcd screen to see it *

[AluminumHaste]

OHHHhhhh... haha, yea I don't think that's to much of a big deal, it may have been a problem with syncing I dunno. Either way I've never noticed this before. *I had to lean around my lcd screen to see it *

 

You guys must have some very crappy monitors to not see that. Which would explain why nobody except a few people notice the horrible compression artifacts on some of the official screenshots.

[SneaksieDave]

Nah, I see and notice both readily, and I'm looking on a burned out old Sony which doesn't even know what "black" is anymore. They're just screenshots though, and jpeg compression is fairly well known. No more wacky than screenshots at resolutions no one can run, eh?