Take Screenshots For Our Steam Page And Website

Discussion in 'Community Requests' started by Beerdude26, Jan 26, 2012.

  1. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    At the moment, our Steam Page is pretty bare. We could use some more awesome screenshots!

    Steam wants screenshots of either 1280x720 or 1920x1080 pixels, so widescreen screenshots.

    For our website, the minimum resolution is around 1024x768, although higher is always better.

    We'd like them to be as high-res and high-quality as they can be, so make sure your settings are maxed out. Also, make sure you use the screenshot command instead of the jpeg command, because the first command makes uncompressed screenshots. (at the very least, use jpeg_quality 100 to set JPEG quality to the maximum.)

    Even better is to record a demo using record <demoname> at the start of a game. Note that this may "freeze" up your client (you no longer receive updates from other players), just reconnect if that's the case and try again. Use stop to stop recording.

    Now, you can go through the demo again with playdemo <demoname>, and arbitrarily pause it with the commands demoui and (untested demoui2. demopause and demoresume also work fine if the Demo UI is too annoying to use.

    Remember that you can change your resolution before playing back the demo (as well as several other console commands to hide stuff or whatever you want to do), so there's no excuse for getting crappy screenshots from a demo! :p

    If you've found a pretty awesome part in your demo, you can use the commands startmovie and endmovie to have the game dump frame-by-frame uncompressed images. Don't try and do this for the entire demo, though, because it fills like 10 gigabytes in a few minutes. For short parts, however, it's really handy to be able to sift through your demo frame by frame and select the best screenshot there is.

    You can post your screenshots here. www.dropbox.com is a good place to host your files, as they won't be compressed.
     
    Last edited: Feb 2, 2012
  2. complete_

    complete_ lamer

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    fyi, imgur pictures are compressed if over 1mb
     
  3. Fooshi

    Fooshi For fuck's sake Fooshi

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    Use Dropbox instead. All the image hosting services out there (that I've tried) all have their major flaws.

    I'll see what I can do when I get home.
     
  4. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    How about we stage some screenshots sometime? Good battlefield photography is a bitch, but staging it is easy.

    Well, easier.
     
  5. PredatoR[HUN]

    PredatoR[HUN] Member

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    God no.
    Ask Sandbag how hard it was to stage a trailer for empires. He will tell you horror stories.
     
  6. LordDz_2

    LordDz_2 Strange things happens here

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    Yupp, it may sound easy on paper, but to keep people from fucking around, not kill each other, not use melee is very hard.

    It often begins with a "woops, I fired at him".
     
  7. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    woah blurry ...
     
  8. Silk

    Silk Mapper

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    I really like to try to get some awesome screenshots ...

    Starting up empires !
    Ah hell, almost no one playing
     
  9. Grantrithor

    Grantrithor Member

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    Watchu mean? battlefield photography stages it self, and players act better candid than if they knew they were being recorded/screenshot. The only other alternative that is actually good is using gmod and posing all the soldiers, which is what Dee or whoever did for the loading screens.
    Example of one I did a year ago:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6230052/Logos/squad1artyzoom.png
    Look at dat zoom blur.
     
  10. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    The guy in front of the arty looks like as if he's riding a catterpillar

    "GO CATARPILAR GO D:<"
     
  11. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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  12. Silk

    Silk Mapper

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  14. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    These are great, Silk, thanks a buttload!
     
  15. CyberKiller

    CyberKiller Nyooks!

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    I think the steam page needs some screenshots with the hud enabled as well. The screenshots currently on the steam page just make empires look like some generic deathmatch game on first glance of them...
     
  16. complete_

    complete_ lamer

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    Question: Do we take screenshots from only official maps?
     
  17. Silk

    Silk Mapper

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    Yeah i do agree with that actually
     
  18. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    We're going to put in Nesquiko's VGUI, so wait with that a bit


    Unless they're pretty damn pimp, preferably yes
     
  19. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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    chain is pretty damn pimp if you ask most people.
     
  20. Empty

    Empty Member

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    I don't want rainbowroad on any official or unofficial publicity.
    Or even in our servers.
     

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