[Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website

[Shoozza]

Hello everyone,

like mentioned in the devlog we need better screenshots for soldat.pl.
Anyone has some awesome ones we could use for the website?

[Bistoufly]

With or without the hipster filter? 

[Shoozza]

No filter necessary

[darDar]

Thanks for the topic Shoozza, I tried to make some as I said but yeah they might not look appealing, or ? (might be better than some existing though, quite sure).

I used default soldat settings & no filter.
No action in terms of enemies is shown here though.

By the way: the screensho viewing 'code' is pretty bad. It will just redirect to the image so you can't even skip to the next / previous image. Would be nice to have a slideshow.

[Blacksheepboy]

Daww darDar isn't in multiplayer.

Wait, the existing screenshots aren't considered very good? VTT's maps are pretty (well that's a given).

[Viral]

Made one, less flashy.

[darDar]

That looks like 'R' lol

[L[0ne]R]

I think the screenshots should be limited to default maps, so new players don't download the game expecting to see the maps that were on the screenshots. Screenshots don't even show the name of the map, so new players don't even know where to get them.

Luckily we have some decent-looking remakes (and even some default maps): Airpirates, Daybreak, Factory,  ctf_Ash, ctf_Kampfer, inf_Belltower are pretty photogenic.

[Dragstie]

Agreed... What they see in screens should also be what they get their hands on right away. If it were only the best looking maps well virtualtt would have supplied them all;)

[darDar]

There was 90% custom and modded stuff shown in the previous screenshots for the past 90 years. I think there is nothing wrong to show custom stuff. Soldat is a game of modding.

If soldat.pl wouldn't be such a rusty 1999 crap website it would be easy to give each screenshot a title(default soldat, modded soldat) and you could actually view multiple images in a slideshow.

[Bistoufly]

[L[0ne]R]

I've made some screenshots using default mod and default maps: http://imgur.com/a/ZFDKF

There was 90% custom and modded stuff shown in the previous screenshots for the past 90 years.

Doesn't mean that's a good thing. Just nobody bothered to do it right.

I think there is nothing wrong to show custom stuff. Soldat is a game of modding.
If soldat.pl wouldn't be such a rusty 1999 crap website it would be easy to give each screenshot a title(default soldat, modded soldat) and you could actually view multiple images in a slideshow.

I too think there's nothing wrong with showing off some mods and custom maps, but there should at least be a note that what's on the screenshot is not representative of the default version. So until there is some way to show that - we should stick to defaults.

[Dusty]

I think the interface & texts should be hidden

[Viral]

Also set the resolution to 800x600, otherwise it looks like pixelized crap. And come on, soldat is one big mod, you should make use of it and show at the screenshots how customizable and flexible it is.

[Blacksheepboy]

I think the screenshots should be limited to default maps, so new players don't download the game expecting to see the maps that were on the screenshots. Screenshots don't even show the name of the map, so new players don't even know where to get them.

I think custom shows the potential of the game, and if done properly (title/description), can give the preliminary sense that, yes, this game can be edited/modded (especially the mech mod screenshots).

you should change the whole site layout as a whole, shouldnt take long

That sounds a little ambitious.

[Viral]

Made 4 more screens with kici.

[Mittsu]

I think Loner's screenshots are the most fitting for Soldat presentation

[Shoozza]

I think Loner's screenshots are the most fitting for Soldat presentation

Why exactly is that? Is it because they are 1920x1080?

[Mittsu]

because they're showing vanilla soldat and some action in it

there could also be a mix of various screenshot, vanilla action + pictures with nice aesthetics

[jrgp]

there could also be a mix of various screenshot, vanilla action + pictures with nice aesthetics

Could be interesting to predominantly show vanilla soldat but also sneak in a few pics of (mutually agreed upon) cool looking mods/interfaces.

[darDar]

there could also be a mix of various screenshot, vanilla action + pictures with nice aesthetics

Could be interesting to predominantly show vanilla soldat but also sneak in a few pics of (mutually agreed upon) cool looking mods/interfaces.

Yes, seperate them with a line or a header to let the viewer take notice of it though. There are quite appealing mods ; such as the cel - shaded mod.

[Shoozza]

If we want to have screenshots they should have the same size.
Full HD (1920x1080) seems like a good resolution.

I could replace the current screenshots on in the screenshot gallery with the ones L[one]r made if there are no suggestions/objections.
Alternatively some of the classic ones could be remade (thinking about the home page screenshots (which are sadly small and rotated).

[duz]

If we want to have screenshots they should have the same size.
Full HD (1920x1080) seems like a good resolution.

I could replace the current screenshots on in the screenshot gallery with the ones L[one]r made if there are no suggestions/objections.
Alternatively some of the classic ones could be remade (thinking about the home page screenshots (which are sadly small and rotated).

Ok, I'll take dozens of 1080p screenshots.

BUT! I was taking some 720p before and thinking: WHY THE HELL THEY DONT REMAKE THOSE INTERFACES?!

Man, those interfaces are classics, just classics, only classics. They are REALLY bad, ugly as F!
Any 10y kid nowadays will open the game and laugh a lot cuz there's a horrible shit in their huds.

That's why I found any decent interface to take the screenshots.
Here's the idea for 1.7: Remake/replace the interfaces. There's a lot of good interfaces in SoldatForums, ask a help to the community.

[Shoozza]

I'll replace the screenshots with hd ones in 4h and 30min so if you want me to look at yours too you should upload them soon

You should open a new thread if you want to talk about interfaces though and keep this about screenshots only.

[duz]

Go ahead 

[Shoozza]

Hmm the only full hd screenshots we have are from L[one]r.
Sadly the websites thumb generator cannot generate anything else than 120*x thumbs...
So I need thumbnails which look like: http://soldat.pl/gallery/soldat/home/34/thumb

L[one]r can you do that for me?

We should probably show more different maps.
Maybe even have one screenshot per map?

[duz]

Ok, I'm at home right now. I'll take some 1080p screenshots with default interfaces.

L[one]r, imgur.com is compressing your screenshots.

Shoozza, png files or jpg files?

[L[0ne]R]

I can make more/better screenshots and thumbnails for them, but here's a question: Should we really make them in 1080p when Soldat still renders in blurry ugly 640x480? I think high-res screenshots are actually making the game look worse. Maybe we should make screenshots at lower resolution (1280x720, or maybe even 854x480 for perfect crispness) until the game can support HD graphics (at which point we'd need a new screenshots anyway).

[darDar]

I rather suggest to make the screenshots on well looking maps such as ctf_Blade , ctf_Guardian (I think that's it already)
Screenshots should show off the game from it's best side -

Apart from that these 1920x1080 do not really fit at all. If im clicking on an image right now it will just fill out my whole screen and I even have to scroll right / up to watch it....

1280x or 1680x is more common, I suppose.
You should be waiting until the "Direct Input initialized" message disappears before you take a screenshot either.

Having different image sizes is no problem either.

[Shoozza]

I would either with 1024x768 or 854x480 for the image size it should not be too blurry compared to full hd. (not sure which one is better atm, need to compare).
Additionally it will work on all resolutions which can also display the full width of the site.

I think we should try to have only one image size if possible else the image popup will be larger/smaller which might be annoying.
There are some screenshots on the home page which I would like to replace with similar versions or remakes.

[L[0ne]R]

I'd recommend using 854x480 because it renders the game in its native size and allows Anti-Aliasing to work (for some reason AA only works on *x480 resolutions). I'll also disable the kill log while taking screenshots if you don't mind.

[darDar]

I'd recommend using 854x480 because it renders the game in its native size and allows Anti-Aliasing to work (for some reason AA only works on *x480 resolutions). I'll also disable the kill log while taking screenshots if you don't mind.

I have large troubles with Anti Aliasing... Whenever I move my textures seem to "move" either. I might create a topic about that or so...
Makes it hard for me to make good screenshots.

[duz]

1080p doesn't make sense to me:


Better (small screenshots):


Would be even better with arrows at the sides of the box to change the screenshot.

[Shoozza]

Ok lets go with 854x480 for the screenshot resolution.

If you want to discuss improvements to the popup itself i suggest to create a new topic

[xmRipper]

Current screenshots are actually awesome. Why you want to change?
(I'm sorry if I missed the reason)

[dodo001]

And:

[duz]

dodo001:

Ok lets go with 854x480 for the screenshot resolution.

[darDar]

dodo001:
game's language should be english of course

[darDar]

any news about the update ?

The screenshots page is still bugged and the added images are not showing the game from it's best side, not even close.

[Shoozza]

Can someone create thumbnails for the images? I didn't get any for the current images that's why they look like this.

[Mokkun]

Can someone create thumbnails for the images? I didn't get any for the current images that's why they look like this.

Hey Shoozza, why not just improve the current thumnail generator? Any reason?

[Shoozza]

I already replaced the thumbnails myself. I never looked closely into the thumbnail generator. It would be possible to update it but I don't have time for this.