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To be frank, if you're not using the console, your pictures will always be average at best. Especially when using Ponies, since they practically radiate with bloom. Alternatively, use a completely dark map (the dark room in gm_construct or gm_flatdark). Though there you'd have to light EVERYTHING, and build your own scene.
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Welp, a very good job kamerad. But tbh, everyone with their own style, except the ones who are not skilled should learn something from others like us time by time.
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Doesn't using the steam overlay screenshot function work the same as the devshots thing?
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Then why pray tell, does it keep leaving TGA files in my garrysmod/garrysmod/screenshots folder?
Also, TGAs don't upload right, I had to re-save them as PNGs.
See this? mattwo.deviantart.com/art/askeβ¦
That was done with the steam overlay screenshot, then I saved it as PNG. All three of my most recent ones were like that but that one came out the best.
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Well, TGA files are of very high quality, but they take a lot more space. The solution is to save them, post-editing in Photoshop, as PNG or JPG quality 12.
There is a problem with Gmod, or Steam for that matter, in that the JPGs they save is of low quality, even with jpeg_quality 100. With this method, however, you barely lose quality when making the switch to JPG.
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All that really matters is that I found a easier way to export TGA files.
Also, jpgs are supposedly lower quality than pngs but for the life of me, I have never been able to see the difference...
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Check this out, pay attention to the water dispenser and the wet floor sign:Β dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17β¦
Courtesy of Facepunch
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Would be helpful if my monitor wasn't too dark to the point where this image does not help...
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Well, is something like this: www.between-worlds.com/tutoriaβ¦
JPG saves space by compressing the image. PNGs don't compress the pixels, and thus they don't lose quality.
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So apparently it does save as both. Yes you need to export them as png to upload them.
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I'd use ragdoll mover but I currently do not have a functioning middle mouse button and can not replace it anytime in the near future.
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will the bind X devshots_Screenshots improve qualtiy?
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Yes. But only image quality, obviously not graphics quality.
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Β so I tried to replicate your screenshot Β (more or less) but something seems...off. Can you elaborate more on the placement and color of the lights, please.Β
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Scene and lighting seem good, maybe increase the lighting from the front a bit.
But the rimlighting needs work. As I said some other time, my tutorial isn't the best. I just cover generally every topic in there, but not with much detail.
Here's a very good tutorial on lighting superninjanub.deviantart.com/aβ¦
Posing is very nice though (maybe try some ear posing?)
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could you give me a bit more information about rimlighting? Maybe accompany that with a screenshot of rimlighting placement?
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I can't really explain it better than this tutorial. I'm sorry.
I think some things are best learned by practice.
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okay... so I bet you're using Gmod 13, right? Well, in the picture that you showed lamp positions, there was a smaller lamp- one that looked like a lamp. I can't find that model...
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so its good to keep bloom on? and also bindx devshots_screenshots? I thought you can just takes screenshots with right click when switch to camera mode?
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You can, but that'd save the image is a .jpg and ruin the quality. And tbh, it'd be better to deactivate bloom for posing. what you see here is just an extreme example.
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Can I do this with other pics too?
Because I need more tutorials.
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Of course these techniques work with other pictures, too.
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I just did it in my recent pic.
Incredible, it is.
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RemindsmeofMaxofS2D, which is true. :3
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Now if this tutorial doesn't (somehow) improve newbies quality on their works, then I'll eat my cap.
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I always turn down the bloom when I come in a map.
But this tuto show approximately what I do for making picture.
For editing, I open the picture directly with paint.net, cut some part I don't want and open it in Gimp.
but for the screenshot, I use the regular touch. "Take screenshot" with the super DOF (yeah, JPEG and not TGA)
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I also turn down the bloom, but this is what all newbies see when they enter, so I thought it a good idea to keep it on. Something they can relate to and stuff.
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mmhh, good idea indeed
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well,,this is nice to see. thanks for this. im learning about commands i never knew about..X3
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You can have my poor soul now.
and one more question... the max lamp brightness you meant the 999 or more ?
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The maximum is usually the right end of the slider, isn't it?
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I wanna know the number.. so its a 8,. thx.
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Good night.Β I better raise my standards.Β Thank you, sir, for an easy tutorial with neat tricks.
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Actually people do have an excuse. The ones that have not seen this Tutorial.
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i suggested quality control to the group ages ago. but nooooOOOOooo.Β
instead peoples eyes melt out of their skulls when they are exposed to the immense suckage that people create by headbutting the desk too hard.Β
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The group started going downhill a long time ago. My vain attempt to salvage it was met with spite...
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Where can I download gm_blueeyecreek from because I'm curious to check this map out?
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"ent_fire x setlightingorigin y" - very, very trickyΒ Β
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All that's left is them learning how to make proper comics, with borders, speech bubbles, camera placement, and editing.
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That's not up to me. Hell, even I suck at making proper comics.
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I've made one too.Β mattwo.deviantart.com/art/Tutoβ¦
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Eh, I've got a half-arsed how-to-make a comic tutorial, but none is interesting in even looking at it.
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thank you for creating this tutorial to help us beginners
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That was the gist of it. I was sick of people complaining about the quality standards week, despite the fact that there already were easily 20 tutorials, each of them better than this one.
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