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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2014, 09:24:30 pm »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2014, 12:02:19 am »
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).
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2014, 07:32:53 am »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2014, 10:28:52 am »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #24 on: September 27, 2014, 12:56:19 pm »
Go ahead  :-*
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2014, 02:39:12 am »
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?
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #26 on: September 28, 2014, 08:01:06 am »
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?
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #27 on: September 28, 2014, 12:10:52 pm »
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).

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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #28 on: September 28, 2014, 12:22:21 pm »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2014, 02:06:10 pm »
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.


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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #30 on: September 28, 2014, 03:38:52 pm »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #31 on: September 28, 2014, 04:28:24 pm »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #32 on: October 02, 2014, 07:54:54 am »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #33 on: October 02, 2014, 02:32:37 pm »
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 ;)
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #34 on: October 02, 2014, 06:12:05 pm »
Current screenshots are actually awesome. Why you want to change?
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #35 on: October 04, 2014, 02:47:15 pm »
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #36 on: October 04, 2014, 04:06:07 pm »
dodo001:

Ok lets go with 854x480 for the screenshot resolution.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #37 on: October 04, 2014, 07:30:30 pm »
dodo001:
game's language should be english of course
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #38 on: October 29, 2014, 02:49:32 pm »
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.
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Re: [Request] Soldat screenshots for soldat.pl website
« Reply #39 on: October 29, 2014, 06:22:59 pm »
Can someone create thumbnails for the images? I didn't get any for the current images that's why they look like this.
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