Getting screen shots to look good in the garage.
- StoneBullet
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Getting screen shots to look good in the garage.
I know this might sound like a really stupid question, but how do you get your cars to look so good in the garage? I run the game in 1280x1024 with all of the options on (except overbright) and they still look crap.
When browsing through the site I see a lot of the top people here use garage shots and they look great, so what am I doing wrong.
When browsing through the site I see a lot of the top people here use garage shots and they look great, so what am I doing wrong.
My personal prefernce is too keep everything on or on high, except for the light trails. This setting, makes the lighting blury, and disguises the edges of the cars. Leaving it off, allows me to take decent screenshots, that are sharp and clear.
Beside the quality of the graphics on this game isn't brilliant, i just feel that the light trail was put in place to disguise the flaws of EA's texturing flaws, but that's just a personal opinion.
Of course another method you could use, is to edit the brightness and the cotrast of the screenshot. Increase the contrast, and reduce the brightness a tiny bit. Don't know what editing program you use, but i usually use photoshop.
Beside the quality of the graphics on this game isn't brilliant, i just feel that the light trail was put in place to disguise the flaws of EA's texturing flaws, but that's just a personal opinion.
Of course another method you could use, is to edit the brightness and the cotrast of the screenshot. Increase the contrast, and reduce the brightness a tiny bit. Don't know what editing program you use, but i usually use photoshop.
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Thanks for the info. I have turned off light trails, which had the added benefit of getting rid of those stupid lines to the left of the screen. If you look at some of my screen shots you will know what I am talking about.
I'm gonna have a go and see what I can do with it. I have PSP 7, which is pretty good, but not quite up to the standard of Photoshop.
I'm gonna have a go and see what I can do with it. I have PSP 7, which is pretty good, but not quite up to the standard of Photoshop.
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Here's some advice: Crank the graphics up as much as possible (except for the trail light option and mabye the anti-aliasing), then go to the garage even if it runs slow and take a screen shot. It does not have to run fast to take a screen shot. Also, if you cut out your cars in photoshop, the only way you can cut out the car just right is croping like real fast around you car so you =can see everything still but closer up, then use the eraser to get right next to the car shape (it is tedious but you can get rid of the stupid dings and stuff on the car from in-game that look bad and shouldn't be there). This will all take practice, but after a while you will be able to do it just as fast as using the magic wand or any other method. This may not work for all, but it is the best way that I have found for me.
Re: Getting screen shots to look good in the garage.
Ask UrQuattroStoneBullet wrote:I know this might sound like a really stupid question, but how do you get your cars to look so good in the garage? I run the game in 1280x1024 with all of the options on (except overbright) and they still look crap.
Just thought I should put this to rest. The admins don't modify your screenshots in any way. However, when screens are uiploaded, they are automatically resized to 800x600, and quality can be lost during this process. This is a simple matter to avoid - just make sure to resize the image to 800x600 yourself before uploading to the site.Aspis wrote:Sorry guys, but all the screenshots in NFSUnlimited garages have this crappy quality because they're compessed by the admins.
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