Screenshots

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:56 pm

Getting to make the Baakili look more like its description, thanks to 1.74.x material model / shaders:

OneoftheLost · Post by **OneoftheLost** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:48 pm

Feeling a lack of love for the screenshot thread, so I took one of my own. Quite boring, but it shows the new Deep Horizons, sun, and the excellent Deepspace textures on my Mk III Cobbie.

On second thought, how does one resize pics? I found a website, but it reduces the quality considerably.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:05 pm

Download GIMP (if you haven’t already got it) and resize them there first.
GIMP is really good for playing with pics… and other stuff.

Or Photobucket does resizing quite well.

Darkbee · Post by **Darkbee** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:13 pm

El Viejo wrote:
Download GIMP (if you haven’t already got it) and resize them there first.
GIMP is really good for playing with pics… and other stuff.

Are you completely insane? (don't answer that)

Gimp is a bit overkill to resize an image.

That's like saying buy the latest ironass AlienWare gaming system worth $3000 to play the original Elite!

I use the freeware image view IrfanView, it does a pretty good job. Also, saving the images as PNGs will ensure better quality, you start to get lots of artifacts in the image when using JPGs.
XNView is another good (and also free) image viewer that is growing on me like a baby trumble.

Can I just say while I'm here, some of this artwork is simply breathtaking btw. I'm utterly in awe. Fantastic work guys (and gals).

OneoftheLost · Post by **OneoftheLost** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:14 pm

Oh! Very cool.

Thanks.

Darkbee · Post by **Darkbee** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:16 pm

Ragged wrote:
This is Missy. She'd look even better if the game didn't scale up her images to the hight of the screen.

She could do with a stint at the NovaNice'n'Easy Tanning Salon, but I would.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:20 pm

Darkbee wrote:
Gimp is a bit overkill to resize an image.

Yeah… but GIMP is fun (and free). You can end up doing all sorts of stuff with it… like custom decals.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:45 pm

OneoftheLost wrote:
Feeling a lack of love for the screenshot thread,

Ha… any excuse to post a pic. How about a nice eclipse:

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:55 pm

Who needs excuses? Nice eclipse

Hands up, I did pose this one a bit.
The Boa Clipper Bilbo Maru having just dropped out of hyperspace, passing a Space Bar with the planet in the distance.

(OXPs :- Boa II Clipper Class, Random Hits, System Redux (Capt Kev)

Svengali · Post by **Svengali** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:54 pm

Nice shots .-)

Darkbee · Post by **Darkbee** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:55 am

El Viejo wrote:
Yeah… but GIMP is fun (and free). You can end up doing all sorts of stuff with it… like custom decals.

Don't get me wrong, I like Gimp. I never used to though, it's taken me a while to learn to "love" Gimp. My search for a simple image editor that supports transparency and layers has taken years, trying out (and rejecting) Gimp several times along the way. I loved Paint Shop Pro but didn't love it enough to pay for it. I also used Serif PhotoPlus along the way, another commercial program, but didn't like the proprietary format it saved in (which I couldn't use in anything else). Eventually, I gave up since I now try to run open source software where possible (I don't even buy many commercial games anymore; thank Aegidian for Oolite!), and so Gimp it is!

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:45 pm

I am a big fan of Gimp...it's an excellent piece of software and is incredibly versatile. To be honest I'm not a trained artist or graphic designer, and I've never used Photoshop or any proprietary image software.
All my graphics have been produced using the Gimp. A good example of what it can do are the diffuse-map and emissions-map for my Contractor OXP (below).

Website · Post by **Cody** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:23 pm

This damn ‘game’… first it awakened the long-dormant elite combateer in me, then it tempted me into the world of the forum, and showed me the delights of the oxp. For a while, it turned me into a GPU driver update fanatic, then it persuaded me to start editing plists and js scripts, not to mention enticing me into writing ‘fiction’. Then it somehow inveigled me into learning to use the Gimp, when all I’d ever used before was Paint.

Ahh… what a game!

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:02 pm

El Viejo wrote:
... when all I’d ever used before was Paint.

Same here, and to think, I used to think Paint was awesome.

Gimp came as a bit of a shock at first, it seemed horribly complicated and not even intuitive, but after playing around with it for a while I really like it.
And of course its best feature of all is the price. Zero.

Darkbee · Post by **Darkbee** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:49 pm

I think it's time to open up a separate Image Editor Love thread.

Paint is an absolute disgrace btw.