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Title: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Art Kelson on June 09, 2008, 07:53:58 am
I know theese are not the best Screenshots. I have a Question about Screenshoots at all and didn´t want to make a new Thread, because of this...

(http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5426/screen0014sb8.th.jpg) (http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0014sb8.jpg)(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8990/screen0028pg5.th.jpg) (http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0028pg5.jpg)(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2369/screen0031ht8.th.jpg) (http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0031ht8.jpg)

...It seems like there are some colour Issues, whenever I take a Screenshoot or hit ESC to pause the Game (Game is backgrounded). For Example the Shivans are blue on Screenshots and red Colours look more like brown or orange Colours...any suggestions ?

I wanted to make some Screenshoots for FSAR, until i figured out they don´t look like ingame.

Edit: And please don´t Necrothread me...i  know it´s 30 Days past...:D
Title: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 09, 2008, 12:52:02 pm
That's a bug. I assume that you have an ATi Radeon video card?

One thing that you can do to fix this is get IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com), and open the shot. Do what is shown in the photo, and save the shots as filetype PNG quality 9. That will fix the colors and make them better quality
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: karajorma on June 09, 2008, 04:11:21 pm
I know theese are not the best Screenshots. I have a Question about Screenshoots at all and didn´t want to make a new Thread, because of this...

Make a new thread next time. :p

Bumping a year old thread which is unrelated to your question is far more annoying then starting a new thread to ask a legitimate question.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: tinfoil on June 09, 2008, 04:25:48 pm
Yeah just start a new thread
necromacy gets you titles like mine
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Droid803 on June 09, 2008, 05:42:53 pm
Woah, looks like someone ran the picture through some filter in photoshop!
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 09, 2008, 07:50:49 pm
No, it's JPG compression artifacts.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: haloboy100 on June 09, 2008, 09:59:43 pm
:wtf:

I'm starting to get confused over what is the best format for pictures.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 09, 2008, 10:02:21 pm
For screenshots, use PNG, quality 9 (in IrfanView, which anyone in their right mind should be using).

PNGs are 1/10th the size of JPGs in these cases, and near lossless quality.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: haloboy100 on June 09, 2008, 10:12:13 pm
so JPGs just plain suck?
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 09, 2008, 10:17:47 pm
Yup. They're an outdated format. They do have some applications, when there is a lot of color variation (a.k.a not a huge block of one solid color) they're generally slightly smaller than a PNG.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Art Kelson on June 10, 2008, 05:48:22 pm
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Bumping a year old thread which is unrelated to your question is far more annoying then starting a new thread to ask a legitimate question.

Ok, just thought a new Thread would be more work.

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That's a bug. I assume that you have an ATi Radeon video card?
One thing that you can do to fix this is get IrfanView, and open the shot. Do what is shown in the photo, and save the shots as filetype PNG quality 9. That will fix the colors and make them better quality

I have an Ati X1300. I got Irfanview. Which Photo do you mean ?

Saved them as .png (9), but they still look unnormal... :confused:

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Woah, looks like someone ran the picture through some filter in photoshop!

No pimped them with Gimp. That says...I gimped them. :D

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I'm starting to get confused over what is the best format for pictures.

I think .bmp and .tga is. I only choose .jpg because it has the smallest filesize. In .tga this pictures would be looking way better, but with a average size of 2.2 MB.

I think .jpg is of lower Quality, but the most common format used in the Internet.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 10, 2008, 05:52:15 pm
I have an Ati X1300. I got Irfanview. Which Photo do you mean ?

Saved them as .png (9), but they still look unnormal... :confused:


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I'm starting to get confused over what is the best format for pictures.

I think .bmp and .tga is. I only choose .jpg because it has the smallest filesize. In .tga this pictures would be looking way better, but with a average size of 2.2 MB.

I think .jpg is of lower Quality, but the most common format.
Sorry, forgot the image.

(http://i31.tinypic.com/vrc385.png)
That will fix the colors.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Art Kelson on June 10, 2008, 06:15:16 pm
Thanks @Colecampell. I think that looks Ok now... :yes:

(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/8417/screen0107qq0.th.png) (http://img93.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0107qq0.png)
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 10, 2008, 06:20:43 pm
Was that meant to stir interest in what you're doing, cause it did.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Art Kelson on June 10, 2008, 06:28:22 pm
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Was that meant to stir interest in what you're doing, cause it did.

It was ment to stear interest into my problem with the screenshots... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Droid803 on June 10, 2008, 06:32:55 pm
Woah...did you just rename absolutely everything?
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 10, 2008, 07:28:40 pm
No, The Shivan installation pictured is from INFR1.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Droid803 on June 10, 2008, 09:13:25 pm
I know. And its called SI Arachnas, not SI.Oblivion-class.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Art Kelson on June 11, 2008, 05:29:10 am
Guys, if you have Questions about what i´m doing then please post in the proper Thread.

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Woah...did you just rename absolutely everything?

Yes, every single Vessel is renamed...even the Containers. Weapons will also get a new Name, until i figured out how it´s working without crashing my Game^^

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No, The Shivan installation pictured is from INFR1.

Wrong. It was a single Download and has absolutely nothing to do with Inferno.

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And its called SI Arachnas, not SI.Oblivion-class.

Wrong. It is the SI.Oblivion-Class. If not so, you wouldn´t read it^^

Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: Snail on June 11, 2008, 02:16:23 pm
Wrong. It was a single Download and has absolutely nothing to do with Inferno
It might have been a separate download, but that installation was still included in Inferno.
Title: Re: Screenshots Questions
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 11, 2008, 06:00:11 pm
In case you haven't noticed, there is no proper thread.