SS/Photography Discussions

[silent token]

Making this a thread so #sc-screenshots doesn't get buried

[steady mountain]

Sorry lol, it's a brilliant resource, would have posted more pictures but I'm not at my pc right now

@earnest kindle sorry for the ping, but let's take the conversation here so the mods don't get angry at us lol

You definitely have found your own style for photography though, as soon as I see high contrast/ high sharpness and texture detail I recognise it as yours

[earnest kindle]

Thank you 😄

[steady mountain]

And it's clearly within the realms of realism without any drastic editing, I'm jealous it looks so good lol

I've been trying to focus more on my composition recently, so I've been avoiding everything but ReShade

[earnest kindle]

Yeah exactly, I'm not trying to add anything that isn't there

I just want to highlight some details

But I'm glad a lot of people seem to like it.

[steady mountain]

Yeah, it's good

You've found a good balance between it all

Whenever I did editing, adding to what's there came first, things like contrast and stuff were a priority

[earnest kindle]

Exactly, contrast is very important and a big part of making things look 'better'

I'm nowhere near an expert on photo editing but I try to get better at it.

[steady mountain]

Yea, for sure

I tried not to go too far with it, but I always felt like I could do better

So now I'm just trying to get my core photography improved before I try any of it again

[earnest kindle]

For every picture I upload in this server, there are 5-7 that don't make it.

[steady mountain]

Maybe the odd picture or two if I really like it

[earnest kindle]

Sometimes more

[steady mountain]

Yeah

I've been finding that more and more too

I do keep meaning to see if I can find grid/ golden ratio/ other overlays for ReShade but I kep forgetting

I feel like I can only do so well by eye before I start to drift from the actual framing of them

[earnest kindle]

Hahaha, you'll get there eventually

Practice a lot

[steady mountain]

Yeah, I've been trying to challenge myself a bit with taking xyz ship to xyz location and doing a photoshoot with the two

No idea if I'm improving at all but hey, it's fun to do and makes me think about what I'm actually taking a picture of

Got Lorville and A18 next which will be interesting

[earnest kindle]

This is all I do

Think of certain themes and ideas and then select the ship and location that fit with it.

[shy tendon]

E

[earnest kindle]

F

[steady mountain]

G?

[shy tendon]

I was establishing my presence

[steady mountain]

It's why i've been avoiding Lorville so much lol, can't think of the right ship and can't find some nice locations because it's all brown

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Photography Discussions

SS/Photography Discussions

[earnest kindle]

Yeah I can understand, just go with something industrial

[steady mountain]

Yea, but I want to go with something that contrasts it a bit lol

Oh well, i'll find something

[shy tendon]

use origin

the ship designs contrast the city

anvil is more militant

[steady mountain]

I was thinking of using the 400 and the Penumbra paint

Matches the Hurston theme of black and gold

[autumn heron]

Same here

not mentioning cases where I do two different color corrections style and can't choose which one is better, saving the same picture twice

[steady mountain]

It isn't perfect, but I found an overlay for ReShade that roughly gives some rule of thirds grid lines if anyone's interested

[timid bay]

late I know but penumbra does match well with lorville and so do most industrial
ships

also at least in my opinion sunset really helps lorville look less flat

[steady mountain]

Yeah, I need to just see what works

I've already used the 400i for my Orison shots so I want to try a different ship if I can

[steady mountain]

Anyone have some lesser known/ used ships they like to take shots of? Want to try different things

[timid bay]

raft, merlin, bucc, herald are some of mine

[steady mountain]

The Herald has a real nice interior

The merlin/ archimedes I almost never see, might use one next time

[shy tendon]

E

[swift dirge]

@rain python

I meant how much did it take to find pieces of ships and salvage them?

I want to calculate aUEC/hour to find if it is profitable

[rain python]

oh probably 1-5 minutes per good area of salvage. Had to find 1-2 areas each run so each run probably lasts 30-40 minutes

if you're good at it and you know where to land 35 minutes per run at about 190k a run. Probably 350k an hour more or less?

most people I've talked to say in a regular run you can probably make 200k an hour but those are rookie numbers haha

[swift dirge]

So it is good

For me anything below 100k/hour is not worth it

[rain python]

yeah this makes more than triple that

[swift dirge]

But salvage seems to be even better than mining

It is easier, more relaxing and the cycle is shorter (no refinery)

• even more money maybe

[rain python]

oh for sure more money more relaxing lower skill gap and way more consistent

if you have a prospector it's not half as good as a vulture nowadays lol

[swift dirge]

Maybe it will get nerfed

[rain python]

doubtful at least until T1 salvage is introduced

[swift dirge]

And still Vanguard bounties can provide you with higher profit but it is much more complicated and worse for your brain cells

[rain python]

yeah

[earnest kindle]

Good morning

I'm thinking about using reshade to level up the screenshots

But my 2070super is already on max load when I play SC on my 4k monitor

So is it even a viable option to run reshade?

Because I assume it will add extra load to the GPU?

[steady mountain]

I was on a 2060 before upgrading, 4k 16:9 with ReShade gave me about 10fps

ReShade doesn't really have an impact

I've loaded up quite a few shaders and it was still pretty consistant

[earnest kindle]

Hmm okay, I might start playing around with it then

Need to watch a couple vids first to see how it works 🤣

[steady mountain]

It's really easy to get working

Hard bit is fine tuning it to get a good result/ result you like

I was lazy and just nicked Trini's preset they posted somewhere here and then changed that a little and slowly added to it myself

[earnest kindle]

I'll probably do something similar

[steady mountain]

If anyone else uses some overlays to substitute having a viewport to help compose pictures, here's a golden ratio shader for ReShade I found

Has controllable opacity and a toggle between a fixed size or stretching to fit your screen

[steady mountain]

reallongexposure.fx is what you're looking for @serene lotus

I can grab the file if you don't have it

[serene lotus]

thanks, dude. I have them all loaded at all times 😄

[steady mountain]

Same here lol

Sometimes I forget that I should try using other ones

[serene lotus]

I switch depending on the scene, not too often but still so it helps

[steady mountain]

Yeah, I gotta see what works

Been looking into taking higher quality shots recently though, not been looking into shaders all that much

[serene lotus]

you might want to consider using cupscale

that's another level of quality

[steady mountain]

I have been, used it a fair bit before but when I upgraded my pc I had to do a fresh install of everything so I haven't been using it much recently

Tried using it to downscale the 4k Antares shots to 2k but it doesn't want to work for me

[serene lotus]

what gpu you have?

[steady mountain]

3080

[serene lotus]

so you should be fine without any tricks

[steady mountain]

That's what I thought, it's been iffy though

[serene lotus]

Let me tell you models I use...

[steady mountain]

I think the problem is that it doesn't recognise that i've got python installed

The embedded installer never works for me

Gonna download latest version, see if that fixes anything

[serene lotus]

ah

so you do have the same problem I had with my 3090

Oh boy, that was a ride

[steady mountain]

Uh oh

[serene lotus]

I had to manually install certain libraries

there are tutorials online telling what exactly to do in this case

now my GPU flies in cupscale

24 GB is a blessing 😄

anyway, that's my list.

[steady mountain]

I'll sort that out another time, heading home this evening so won't even be able to get to my pc for a few days

Oh boy that's quite the list

[serene lotus]

I use basically all of them sometimes, but these are the most versatile

JPEG will remove noise and make the file much smaller

[steady mountain]

I'd guess that gets a lot of use

Tried to post some shots on the community hub but the 10gb limit kills me

[serene lotus]

10mb?

yeah

it's annoying

get PowerTools for windows11

[steady mountain]

Mb yeah, gb would be perfect lol

[serene lotus]

you will be able to resize files from the context menu

you can set custom res and you will just click twice and the file will generate itself

no messing with the app, only the initial set up

[steady mountain]

Sweet

Saves having to mess around with libraries for now

[serene lotus]

jpg, png, bmp, you choose

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

[steady mountain]

I will use png till my dying breah lol

[serene lotus]

I often save in JPG when it is a final product. I figured how to keep the quality high enough.

plus, that prevents anyone from messing with it further since there's very little hidden data left

[steady mountain]

Huh

Didn't know that

[serene lotus]

PNG preserves more information about the image, even the one we don't really see.

that's what makes the file bigger

it's handy during editing

but when you're done with it there is no point saving still in PNG

[steady mountain]

Always thought png was the straight up go-to for high quality images

[serene lotus]

If you imagine quality of the image as a swimming pool then PNG reaches to the half depth of it while JPG is the surface of the water.

DNG, RAW, etc goes to the bottom

we often don't see the bottom

[steady mountain]

Deep pools

I know the basics of it, just didn't realise most of png wasn't needed

[serene lotus]

I'm a graphic designer

I dream about file formats

[steady mountain]

Jpg always seemed to compress badly

That explains a lot

[serene lotus]

it doesn't have to be this way, what's important is how you compress/save the file

and what was the original of it

[steady mountain]

Makes sense

[serene lotus]

like I said, JPEG model from cupscale will remove a lot of noise, making the file much smaller. Someone could say it's of a worse quality since it's smaller but you will look at it and say that's not the case.

PNG still contains a lot of data necessary for proper editing but not really important when it comes to a final product

if you know it's your final edit you may as well save the file as JPG using the right level of compression and color range

[steady mountain]

Good to know

No wonder all your shots turn out so well then lol

[serene lotus]

thanks 😄

Sometimes I spend a fair amount of time on them

[steady mountain]

Here I was wondering what sorcery ingame/ shaders you were using but if only it were that simple

[serene lotus]

I use 3 shaders from Reshade

no more

[steady mountain]

How much time in post do you spend then?

[serene lotus]

Well, I often use cupscale which takes up the most of the time

[steady mountain]

Or is it just shoot in high res with minimal changes via reshade, then just make the file size smaller?

[serene lotus]

some images render in 5 minutes

I try to capture images in 7K but sometimes that's not viable

cause you capture individual frames

[steady mountain]

I tried capturing at some ridiculous res and just straight up crashed my game so I need to find a more reasonable size lol

[serene lotus]

so, I capture a snap, I load it up to cupscale, render it, save the png, load it up in lightroom, edit it, save it (often as jpg) and then sometimes I go back to cupscale to remove unnecessary noise

what's your RAM?

[steady mountain]

32gb

[serene lotus]

what display do you have?

[steady mountain]

3440x1440

[serene lotus]

ultrawide for life fuck yeah

same here

34 inches?

[steady mountain]

Can't go back, it's lovely

No, 27 I think

[serene lotus]

I got this HP x34 for 300 pounds xD

It's crazy good

[steady mountain]

Goddamn, mine was 400 quid

[serene lotus]

check HP website dude

it's crazy cheap

the quality is amazing for this price range

and the monitor looks minimalistic and elegant

anyway

[steady mountain]

Oh no, it is 34in, just checked it

[serene lotus]

on your display, depending on the model and the connection you could go as high as 6880x2880

hahah

[steady mountain]

Yeah, i've a Dell, does some good stuff

[serene lotus]

Dell is awesome, dude

[steady mountain]

I can, Nvidia's DSR lets me go up there

[serene lotus]

one of the best display companies out there

nah

forget DSR

create a custom res

and physically switch to it

[steady mountain]

Surely DSR does the same?

[serene lotus]

Not at all

[steady mountain]

Oh right, is it because it then runs it at 1440p?

Same scale just a better image or something like that, I forget exactly how dsr works

[serene lotus]

DSR upscales the given resolution to the desired one and then downscales it back to the one of the display

[steady mountain]

Right

[serene lotus]

so, if you choose 8K or whatever the resulting image you capture won't still be that

it will be 1440

sure, there will be the gain of the upscaling but in your native resolution

it's basically cupscale but in real time

[steady mountain]

Whenever I do it, I do get shots in 2880p

Comes up in file viewer as 6880x2880

[serene lotus]

okay, still try setting up custom res and compare the quality

[steady mountain]

Yeah, i'll do that

[serene lotus]

Yeah, it looks like a genuine 2800

2880*

nice one btw

[steady mountain]

Just gotta get cupscale to work again so I can downscale to a reasonable file size lol

Thanks, really happy how those ones turned out

Been really keeping composure in mind lately

I think it's good enough for me to now look into increasing the overall image quality, hence why i've been doing all this

[serene lotus]

you mean composition?

[steady mountain]

Yeah composition, losing my composure and getting mixed up now lol

[serene lotus]

Yeah, scorpius looks good

let me have a closer look....

bottom rigth corner

right*

plus, you could show the entire tail, it's slightly cropped

other than that, it's great

[steady mountain]

Damn didn't even notice the corner

[serene lotus]

the laser beams look like they were transcending the shot

left---right

the contrast is amazing

color balance...

the red appears to be slightly blue -ish but it's literally 1-2% of the temperature

i like the pic

[steady mountain]

I think I was a bit heavy handed with editing previously, so i've been trying to do smaller adjustments to contrast and stuff

[serene lotus]

I sometimes overdo shit mate 😄

trying to make it better you make it worse

[steady mountain]

Yeah, it's a rabbit hole lol

[serene lotus]

plus, you always have to assume not everyone has a display like yours

contrast will appear differently on IPS and on VA and TN

most people playing SC - I presume - use VA

[steady mountain]

Yeah, I check them on my second monitor

[serene lotus]

that's really good

don't forget to check them on your phone, as well

times we live in... xD

[steady mountain]

Really helps with contrast and colour edits, my main monitor is lovely but the second one (my old one) is a pretty cheap one so it's a good way to see if it might look overdone on other displays

I don't often check on my phone though, that's not a bad shout

[serene lotus]

yeah

the blacks are usually washed out

and you can see the edges you can't see on your Dell 😄

I mean your old monitor

it's probably TN

[steady mountain]

I think the old one might be VA actually

But even so, looks drastically different to the primary

[serene lotus]

Va is a low response

IPS is a wide gamut and angles

but VA has a better contrast

depending on the model

[steady mountain]

Yeah, they all vary slightly

This is my primary
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dell-S3422DWG-inch-WQHD-3440x1440/dp/B095C2QLK2/ref=rvi_sccl_4/260-1015949-1407936?pd_rd_w=3kzSm&content-id=amzn1.sym.febd3956-4d60-4288-b8f2-cb468eb6674d&pf_rd_p=febd3956-4d60-4288-b8f2-cb468eb6674d&pf_rd_r=DTM81FQZXVD6V7N3SEGM&pd_rd_wg=ZVsz7&pd_rd_r=b2329552-5f12-4293-9a1e-2c4e68492e7b&pd_rd_i=B095C2QLK2&th=1

And I think this is my secondary, been a few years since I bought it so can't remember exactly
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-C24F390-24-Inch-Curved-Monitor/dp/B08WWRK293

[serene lotus]

ohhh, so it's a curved one

obviously they don't state whether it's an IPS or VA but 99% it's the latter

majority of curved displays are VA

[steady mountain]

Yeah, pretty sure they're both VA

I know the Dell is for sure

[serene lotus]

yeah

good stuff, mate

I needed IPS, after all

https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/product.aspx?id=2v7w6aa&opt=abu&sel=def

[steady mountain]

Tried to find an affordable ultrawide with good picture quality and this one came up and was a good price so I went for it

[steady mountain]

That's a pretty damn good deal

[serene lotus]

it is, right? 😄

YOu won't find anything cheaper in this category

and still the monitor is great

fine, HDR is bit washed out but I don't use it that much

[steady mountain]

I've found HDR to be far too bright

Rarely use it

[serene lotus]

I play NMS in HDR all the time

I love it 😄

[steady mountain]

It works for a few games but others just look terrible

[serene lotus]

Star Citizen looks pretty good on mine, but the problem are the images

[steady mountain]

Destiny 2 uses it iirc and that looks great, if I turn it on for Legion then it's just bright and washed out

[serene lotus]

you capture WITH the HDR and then you try to view them....

[steady mountain]

HDR doesn't carry over, does it?

[serene lotus]

it does

depending on which capture technology you use

I use only Nvidia overlay

it captures everything

[steady mountain]

Not bad

[serene lotus]

it's quite useful cause if you play more games, it creates a separate folder for each game specified in 3D settings in Nvidia panel

so they don't get all mixed up

I concurrently play about 8 different titles so it would be a nightmare sorting shit out

I got 9K snaps from SC alone, that's after I deleted a lot of them today.

I can't make up my mind

they all might come in handy 😄

[steady mountain]

I only really take serious screenshots in sc, i'd probably just use reshade for others if I start doing them there

[steady mountain]

And I thought 700 was a lot

[serene lotus]

I got 800 in the posted floder.

folder*

[steady mountain]

Christ...

[serene lotus]

8 years, mate.

[steady mountain]

Ah

That'd do it

[serene lotus]

xD

[steady mountain]

I've only been able to have reshade work since 3.17? Whenever we got the facial texture updates

So my backlog is only since then

[serene lotus]

and I was out for a long while cause I hated this shit to its guts 😄

keep doing what you're doing, Tobias. You're in the lead already, pal.

the scorpius looks great.

just repeat that.

[steady mountain]

Means a lot hearing that from you, cheers

[serene lotus]

you will sometimes take amazing screenshots and hardly anyone will like it. That doesn't mean a thing, if it's great for you it means that you gained the most important fan.

You.

[steady mountain]

Yeah, i'm definitely my harshest critic

I compare what I do to others far too often lol

[serene lotus]

don't.

you never know how others process their content.

and they usually don't tell.

[steady mountain]

Yeah, it's a bad habit i'm trying to contain

Definitely helps when I focus on something and I end up proud of it, like some of my more recent stuff

[serene lotus]

Dude, I sometimes see others pictures and I'm like "motherfucker..." 😄

[steady mountain]

Or if I can see how much I have improved over the years

[serene lotus]

if you see something good, try to make it your own

good things should be an inspiration not a drawback

people came before you and people will come after you

year from now you will explain shit to someone else

telling you things you tell me now

same script, different cast

[steady mountain]

Yeah, more than likely

Always will be a cycle

[serene lotus]

Okay, so enough praising your ass

now, think of changing that shitty profile picture 😄

[steady mountain]

Drew it myself, actually

But yeah

[serene lotus]

Fine, it's beautiful and stuff and you should be proud of yourself but unless you're planning to put it out in the gallery....

[steady mountain]

I would but I can't find a shot that fits it well

[serene lotus]

mind that most people use discord in dark mode now

white frame is pretty blinding

and that thing looks like a leming ran over by a truck

lemming*

[steady mountain]

It was literally a scribble that I used to test out some brushes

Realised it looked like a face and stuck with it

[serene lotus]

Okay, so it's a scribble

nice

to meet you

blob

😄

you can easily fit into the profile picture a face, a helmet, a whole person but with a good contrast or even a scenery with the ground being clearly separate from the sky, etc

the stuff is small

play with the light

I mean, you did it already

it's black and white

build on that

[steady mountain]

Yea, I think the biggest problem was the file sizes were too big lol

[serene lotus]

you need something like 256x256 for that

it's tiny

[steady mountain]

Yeah, I was just cropping my usual screenshots

Not the most efficient method

[serene lotus]

See?

[steady mountain]

Yeah, seems easy enough

[serene lotus]

get powertoys

[steady mountain]

I did, managed to upload the scorp pics earlier

[serene lotus]

told you, right click, context menu, you just choose defined res and you're go

here?

[steady mountain]

No, here I did the full res

Community hub

[serene lotus]

ah

I will find you later

[steady mountain]

Cool

[serene lotus]

sent you a friend req

I gotta go now, let's catch up later, pal.

[steady mountain]

For sure, thanks for the chat - learnt a lot

[serene lotus]

please, keep taking screenshots, alright? Thanks 🙂

ciao, bello

[steady mountain]

Oh I definitely will be, no need to worry about that

[steady mountain]

Hey Matt, what do you do for your vertical/ square shots, you just using custom resolutions to play the game and take shots in?

[serene lotus]

Square photos are just a crop from a regular one. Vertical are made using Tobii 🙂

[steady mountain]

Huh, always thought it was something special

I'll have to see how far I can get the Tobii to turn once I'm back from visiting home, didn't remember being able to get it vertical no matter how far I turned my head

[serene lotus]

Mind your neck rotating the camera hahah

[steady mountain]

Dropping this here to just revive the thread

@green hollow happy to give some feedback here if you want

[green hollow]

Happy to listen bud. But Im logging off now. Got an early start tomorrow. Going away for a couple of days for a shoot. Let's catchup on Saturday.

[steady mountain]

Sure, feel free to just ping me

[green hollow]

Will do. GN

[lament scroll]

Does anyone have any tips regarding DOF? I just got reshade a few days ago and all I can figure out is how to make stuff blurry, can’t quite figure out focus yet

[steady mountain]

!f4 may help

[fresh terrace]

Advanced Camera Mode - press F4
• Video Guide • #📷┃screenshots-hof • #sc-screenshots •

Graphic by Hasgaha

[steady mountain]

90% of the dof is ingame, no ReShade

[lament scroll]

Oh damn I had no idea there was in game blur, that’s a game changer

Thank you!

[lapis kayak]

is there a way to set the focus distance?

[lament scroll]

You have to manually find it by holding f4 and using arrow keys, once you find it, use f4 and scroll wheel to move towards and away from camera

[autumn heron]

@serene lotus best place for chat

Forgot it too

[serene lotus]

I also forgot about it, thanks.

So, be careful with levels. You may easily overdo it.

unless you got a really good eye and the monitor 😄

This was the hardest sentence in my life.

[autumn heron]

Thats surely what I'm doing

[autumn heron]

Failling in both cases hahaha

I use to edit on phone cuz of screen quality. Using Gimp I got back to my 32" tv on pc, but it loses a great amount of color detection

So I probably get back editing on phone and correcting tiny visual things (like grain) on the tv

[serene lotus]

You don't have a proper monitor? Do you require donating one? 😄

[autumn heron]

I need stop buying ccu for that🤣

[serene lotus]

Let's talk here @steady mountain @edgy magnet @cobalt swift

@astro, your shots are asking for some serious upscaling. So much detail to enhance 😄

[cobalt swift]

Yeah all my pictures are in 1080p so I miss a lot of detail

[steady mountain]

I do need to play more, Mono found some real nice lighting on the pads at Seraphim

[serene lotus]

No, not that you missed it, it's there, and it's so crisp, man.

[cobalt swift]

If I had a better PC I would run it at 1440p but my PC is booty

[serene lotus]

did you adjust in-game brightness and contrast settings?

[cobalt swift]

Thanks lol I took inspiration from this picture of yours https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/248637571284992000/1150111876349436025/Squadron_42_-_Star_Citizen_Screenshot_2023.09.09_-_17.48.30.89.jpg

But I wasnt able to get the correct lighting lol

[cobalt swift]

Not really

Contrast is like 60 but thats it

[steady mountain]

Oh, I know you've been aching to shoot the Hull C Matt, you managed to fly one yet?

[cobalt swift]

This was my attempt

[serene lotus]

Hah, it's so difficult to create a realistic female face.

these are very good.

she's clearly Asian, or something.

[cobalt swift]

Yeah idk I quickly made a new character

Its so hard to make "decent" looking people

[serene lotus]

and this is my favourite helmet

Odyssey

or Horizon

or both?

[cobalt swift]

Yeah I love it. I just with the glass on it didnt like blur with the Depth of Field blur

[serene lotus]

xD

[cobalt swift]

Yeah idk its one of them lmao

[serene lotus]

have you seen Venture Pathfinder with its super reflective surface? 😄

[cobalt swift]

I probably have seen it but I dont remember it off the top of my head

[serene lotus]

It's worth checking it. Do you have more of that Asian lady?

[cobalt swift]

I have more pictures of her in that same scene, but I havent taken anymore in different scenes. I will probably do it later

[steady mountain]

The face textures are amazing but I hate how old everyone always looks lol (really hoping for updated hairstyles and beards)

Old or tired

I tend to lean towards helmets that obscure the face so I can just focus on the armour/ environment/ ships but that's me

[serene lotus]

I totally get that. I'm moved by the eyes, and facial expressions though it's difficult to achieve something realistic.

[steady mountain]

The eyes are real nice, recently got a webcam for work so I might see what horrors I can achieve when I hop in again

I wish we had a better camera for super up close/ micro shots, I love capturing just the small details that CIG are fucking amazing at

Need to do a photoshoot of the Hull C actually

[serene lotus]

Oh, soo jelly of that 😄

[steady mountain]

That engineering section makes me happy

Haven't been able to fly one yet?

[serene lotus]

I was secretly hoping they'd sell them at some point before the patch but that would be too good to be true.

[steady mountain]

So did I actually, surprised me they haven't pushed to sell

[serene lotus]

the animation of the spindles...

jesus.

[steady mountain]

It's hot

I won't lie

[serene lotus]

How these panels unfold.

like a f*cking flower, or something.

[steady mountain]

Pretty much

[serene lotus]

Guy who committed hull c is a genius.

[steady mountain]

If you've got PTU access I'll get mine out tomorrow so you can play around with it

[serene lotus]

Oh, yes, please!

And thank you 😄

[steady mountain]

My sleep is unsure of what time zone it's supposed to be in so it'll be in the afternoon (plus it's too fucking hot to play in the day right now)

[serene lotus]

I need to twist teh spindle blink blink I'll be around tomorrow to hunt you down 🙂

[steady mountain]

Yeah just gimme a ping or dm me and i'll hop on

[serene lotus]

thanks, man.

appreciated.

[steady mountain]

No problem, always happy to share ships with people

What makes the game fun

And soon enough i'll be diving into Starfield and completely forget about SC till I eventually come back to it

[cobalt swift]

Star Field is good but its doesnt replace SC imo

[steady mountain]

I hope there's a photomode because it looks gorgeous

[cobalt swift]

There is

[steady mountain]

Nah, I know it won't replace SC

Oooh excellent

[steady mountain]

But it's a game in space so i'm drawn to it

Plus I love Bethesda Jank™️

[serene lotus]

I posted two shots in https://discord.com/channels/82210263440306176/1148758905703366726

check it out, photo mode is really good.

[steady mountain]

I've been generally avoiding the discussion, wanting to go in mostly blind

I'm sure you've got some good captures in it though

[serene lotus]

You must try it on your own, man 😄

you'll love it

[steady mountain]

Oo nice shots

I can probably think of a few good ways to use that jetpack shot

[serene lotus]

yup, and there are different verions, end of spoilers. I'm currently playing SF and I pretty much like it.

[steady mountain]

Well not shot, the pose

[serene lotus]

yeah, I get you.

[steady mountain]

Yeah i've been listening to the ost while i've been working lol

Bethesda usually doesn't lack when it comes to music but it's getting me excited for it

[serene lotus]

They know how to tease.

[cobalt swift]

Starfield its pretty hard to run, so I hope you have a decen PC too

[steady mountain]

As long as the gameplay isn't Skyrim/ FO4 awkward and the gameplay is enough to keep me engaged and happy then i'm not complaining

[steady mountain]

It's been good enough so far ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[serene lotus]

Just remember this is rpg not a space sim 😄

@astro, what GPU are you using?

[steady mountain]

I'm well aware, i've seen videos of the 'space flight'

[serene lotus]

hahahah, yeah 😄

I literally came back to SC because I started playing SF.

[steady mountain]

Baldur's Gate 3 has fewer cinematics than Starfield has fast travel cinematics lol

[steady mountain]

I heard it bought quite a few people back into sc

[serene lotus]

he shoots he scores! 😄

yeah, people expected God knows what. I myself expected God knows what.

SC is clunky but it has its moments.

[steady mountain]

To be honest, i'm expecting Skyrim but you're in space and magic has been replaced with excessive firepower

[serene lotus]

That and more. But it's good. And it has a good plot. And it's fun to experiment with certain things.

what it's lacking, SC has it.

[steady mountain]

And then i'm using the console commands I memorised over my countless hours in a 12 year old game to break the new game that probably uses the same engine but slightly updated

Yeah, i've heard mosty good things from what I have seen and heard

[serene lotus]

console commands? I've been messing with visual commands, shadowpoolsize etc.

these really help.

[steady mountain]

Huh, didn't know about those

[serene lotus]

Oh, you're talking about SF 😄

I meant SC, hahah

[steady mountain]

I only really messed around with the ones that interact with the gameplay, but I suppose a new engine would add new commands too

[serene lotus]

12 year-old game, lol

[steady mountain]

Ohhhh

[serene lotus]

so accurate

[steady mountain]

I forgot sc was also aged lol

[serene lotus]

hahah, what a coincidance

and counting...

[steady mountain]

Damn, Skyrim had like 5 releases in the time it's taken SC to get to where it is

[serene lotus]

and it might and will have the 6th 😄

[cobalt swift]

1060 6gb

[serene lotus]

I spent good times with that GPU, man.

[steady mountain]

"To celebrate the successful release of Starfield, we have optimised and added 16x the graphical fidelity to bring you... Skyrim Mobile" - Todd Howard in 6 month's time

[steady mountain]

Not a terrible gpu to have, should be able to run most games on med/ high still right? Maybe a few optimisations here and there

[serene lotus]

If you forget about RT then this is still a valid GPU, yup

[steady mountain]

I came to the pc game late so I skipped straight to the 2060 and now i'm on the 3080

[serene lotus]

Oh

[steady mountain]

The 10's can't even do RT, can they?

[serene lotus]

no, they can't

[cobalt swift]

More like Low/Medium but yeah

[steady mountain]

I'm sure it came with the 20's as Nvidia's benchmark in gpus

[serene lotus]

correct.

[steady mountain]

Still not terrible considering some of the requirements modern games ask of us

[serene lotus]

Astro, so you play on low/medium and switch to high for screenshots, or...?

[cobalt swift]

I usually stay on Medium/High for normal gameplay bc SC is soooo CPU bound. But when taking pics yeah I go to Very High

[serene lotus]

how much ram do you have?

[cobalt swift]

32gb of 3800mhz

[serene lotus]

you can go 4K, if you set custom res

[steady mountain]

I'm not really sure how much of a difference high/ v high makes ingame, you're mostly relying on the cpu and ram to get good gameplay

[edgy magnet]

I did that today, was rough for frames

[cobalt swift]

Yeah but that requires me to go into Nividia Display Panel and do all that stuff right?

[serene lotus]

what's your specs?

[steady mountain]

Yeah, it's not too hard to do

[edgy magnet]

Yeah it was easy

[cobalt swift]

Yeah except when I do that I get a solid 5 FPS average ingame

[edgy magnet]

I’ve got a 3070, 32gb ram, and a Rosen 5700x

[steady mountain]

You just gotta remember to reset your res ingame before you switch back otherwise you get a hard time coming back into the game lol

[steady mountain]

No I get that too lol

A very high quality slideshow

Granted, it's not so bad sometimes but with enough shit around you your game will tank

[edgy magnet]

How does it do with hair at that res?

[serene lotus]

high res greatly helps with DoF artifacts.

and clouds shaders

[steady mountain]

Yeah, DoF in the game is sucky as it is, volumetric clouds are forever the bane of my existance because they're always so damn grainy

[serene lotus]

yeah, I always switch to 2880p when taking clouds

otherwise, it's a shitshow 😄

upscaling is also a solution, just for artifacts

[edgy magnet]

I used the one online flattened a lot of my detail

[steady mountain]

You need to use the right model(s), I used to use it but i've been going more for just improving my general photography and post skills

[serene lotus]

Have you tried cupscale? You'd need to download it though

It's phenomenal.

[edgy magnet]

I haven’t but I’ve read the entire thread before this and want to look into it. I’ve also seen some of the reshade.fx

[steady mountain]

I don't know if 1ch0 is still around or if they've also taken a break as many others have done, but they're the grandmaster of cupscale

[cobalt swift]

I can never figure out cupscale

[steady mountain]

ReShade is good too, just don't go overboard

[serene lotus]

You should try it out, it's great, man. Things it can do to a photo...oof.

Astro, the only hard thing about is to figure out the right models. After that it's ez.

I can always post a list of my models, and other guys will surely throw their five cents to it.

[steady mountain]

The right models and making sure the file size isn't an outrageous 50+mb lol

[serene lotus]

guilty as charged. I sometimes allow myself to post a monster.

[steady mountain]

Case in point: 94mb

And likely to crash some people's discord lol

[serene lotus]

Sick ship design, man.

@Astro this is using two simple models, one of your shots. it's comparison in GIF, play it and look for details.

[steady mountain]

But because I either used the wrong model or just went overboard, those series of pictures actually lack a tonne of detail and if you zoom in, look more soupy than high quality

[cobalt swift]

Jeez

Is that cupscale

[steady mountain]

These three are my favourites though

[steady mountain]

Yeah, it does wonders

[cobalt swift]

Do you guys have the link to it by chance?

[serene lotus]

Ouch, that res 😄

https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale

[cobalt swift]

Thx

[steady mountain]

Yeah it's like a stupid 16k or something outrageous

In hindsight it really didn't need me messing around with it in cupscale but that's how you learn I guess

[serene lotus]

Yeah, you need to overdo it at some point to go down with your own expectations 😄

[steady mountain]

I'm still annoyed every time I look at them that I didn't keep the originals because I never realised how messy the finer details got

I might go and retake those someday

Super super happy with the colour palette and compositon with those

These were all taken 1080 and without reshade (I think), I didn't edit them personally because I wasn't doing post at the time but it just goes to show that you don't have to shoot in 4k+ or have any ridiculous changes done to make an image look good

They were edited in cupscale to be denoised and I think slightly upscaled? Not sure on the latter, all done courtesy of 1ch0

[serene lotus]

love all of them, 400i is mint.

[steady mountain]

I know right? I love that picture

Had it as my desktop for ages

[serene lotus]

yeah, 1ch0 taught us all about cupscale 😄

[steady mountain]

1ch0 is the grandmaster of cupscale, we are blessed to have them magic up our photos on occasion

[serene lotus]

amen to that, pal.

[steady mountain]

the Terrapin one I love too, that one turned out great

And god bless the Meridian paint lol

Goddamnit now I have to get back in and take photos

[serene lotus]

ahahah, finally, man!

Once SCaddict, always one.

[steady mountain]

I can't help it, no matter how dry the updates can be or how much the devs fuck up sometimes, it's still the game of my dreams

I can't not want to play it again

Here's hoping I don't have to rebind everything again

[serene lotus]

I get it, man. SC is my dream game, too 🙂

[cobalt swift]

It also sucks bc I dont have very many ships to take pics of

Thats why I have so many pics of the same ship lol

[serene lotus]

currently I only own 600i

[cobalt swift]

Yeah I only own an MSR

[steady mountain]

I own many and I still only take pictures of the 400 and maybe one or two other ships lol

But I get to share those ships with others so it's okay

[cobalt swift]

What models do you use?

Do you guys use FOIP to get the facial expressions?

[steady mountain]

Yeah, but feels like a drunkard is trying to play charades to get people to guess the emotion

[cobalt swift]

Yeah exactly I have trouble setting up/finding good scenes

[cobalt swift]

Lol

[serene lotus]

That's all of them.

[autumn heron]

I need to learn how it works

[serene lotus]

It's really easy and works wonders.

[autumn heron]

Think I never gave the attention it deserves. But I'm struggling with resolution now and it surelly can save something

[autumn heron]

This result is amazing

My Starfield its not accepting DSR tech and I just can play/take pictures in 1080p 😢

[autumn heron]

I would like to use it only for upscaling and this amazing noise reduction

[serene lotus]

Starfield is not worth going higher than your native res. You're fine with full HD, man.

[autumn heron]

oh really?

[serene lotus]

Yeah, the game look overall good but detail for high-res captures is just not there.

[autumn heron]

So, I'll reduce my efforts to it.

[serene lotus]

It's clear they had to make a lot of sacrifices performance-wise.

[autumn heron]

I already like a lot the results on fullHD. I was hoping to have bigger pics, actually

[autumn heron]

For sure.

[serene lotus]

so cupscale is your friend here.

[autumn heron]

They have their own engine "limitations" too

[autumn heron]

Yep. Thats the reason I'm here

[serene lotus]

do you have it installed?

Or you need a link?

you can also just google cupscale and you're good to go.

[autumn heron]

I already download from a link you've posted here before

I'll search to learn how to use it, now

[serene lotus]

https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Cupscale_Tutorial#Prerequisite_Setup

https://nmkd.de/?esrgan

second link is a list of ESRGAN models

[autumn heron]

🔥🔥

[cobalt swift]

Oh god the picture is 155 MBs lol

@serene lotus This was my attempt at using cupscale

Oh wait

Idk why its not imbeding its a PNG

Maybe bc its so big

[serene lotus]

oof, that's a big file, man. Loading now

[cobalt swift]

Yeah I upscaled it by 200% so its a juicy file size

[serene lotus]

which model have you used?

[cobalt swift]

I just chose one from the website you sent with the ESRGAN models

[serene lotus]

The resolution is huge but I don't really see the upscaling. Try different model 🙂

[cobalt swift]

What resolution is it lol

[serene lotus]

it's 17k

[cobalt swift]

[serene lotus]

😄

[cobalt swift]

What models do you mainly use?

Or do you switch

[serene lotus]

if you load a pic in cupscale so it's visible in the preview window, you can only upscale the visible part of it using the button Refresh Preview (cutout)

this way you can preview the model without having to process the entire image

[cobalt swift]

This is the upscale difference between mine

[cobalt swift]

Ohhh ok

[serene lotus]

I can see the difference but it's in no way 17k quality. Different models will process particular image differently. The fact they are meant to "upscale" something doesn't mean they will make everything sharper and clearer. that depends solely on the model and the image you process.

there are few models I use most often

let me show you

[cobalt swift]

Yeah I will have to keep messing with it

[serene lotus]

GainRes V3

[cobalt swift]

Also what are you settings for this window

[serene lotus]

this one is also great

why you set new size 130 procent?

leave everything at 100

[cobalt swift]

Idk I was just experimenting

[serene lotus]

that's why your file is so big 😄

[steady mountain]

Yeah i've made that mistake before lol

[serene lotus]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

install PowerToys for windows so you can have a resize option under the right mouse button, customisable

that's only one of the funcionalities available, it's a really useful suite

[cobalt swift]

Do I still put this model in the ESRGAN folder?

[serene lotus]

GainRes goes to the default one

Whenever you will try to chain Real ESRGAN model with another one you will get a notification that you're trying to chain incompatible models, some models are miss-named so you experiment with that. You can chain up to 6 models per single render.

[cobalt swift]

Ok this is attempt 2

This one isnt 150 MBs so thats an improvment

[serene lotus]

See? Not only much smaller, but much more detailed and crisp.

few trials and errors and you'll get it right

[cobalt swift]

Here is another I just did. The right is upscaled

It looks way more crisp and smooth around the nose and eyes

[edgy magnet]

Holy Shit

[steady mountain]

Yeah they can look real nice

But you can also end up with an almost cartoony/ liquid/ soupy effect

[edgy magnet]

Yeah, that's what is happening here. Granted, I'm pretty sure I installed it incorrectly and only used the default model.

[steady mountain]

You would have installed it correctly, it's the models that you need to fine tune

Matt listed his models up here somewhere, they probably do a much better job/ more precice AA and preserving texture quality

[edgy magnet]

I did see those, but ahven't put them in yet

[cobalt swift]

This is one of the ones he recommended and I tried it, its very good

https://openmodeldb.info/models/1x-GainRESV3-Aggro

Just click this button

and drag and drop the path file into the folder it opens

[edgy magnet]

Sweet, I'll drop those in when they finish. I appreciate it!
How do you go about fine tuning model? Is that where thepython comes in? Sorry, I haven't had time to deep dive into this yet.

That model did do a much better job at preserving the details without washing out the texture.

[serene lotus]

What about a screenshot competition only for new players? It can be easily verified if someone only started playing by checking their RSI account. We could all donate to create a gift for a winner or something.

Hell, I can donate myself for some set, I just wish to see the channel going again.

[steady mountain]

Yeah, winner gets a paint or something

[serene lotus]

@steady mountain @autumn heron @slow oar Not letting you off the hook that easily

[steady mountain]

I support it

[serene lotus]

Yeah, man. A small thing is enough I believe.

@grizzled wren We need your help organising a screenshot competition for new players, with some prize pool 😄

[steady mountain]

I mean if we just have a small pool where people put some stuff into it then that can dictate what budget (so to speak) we have for it

[serene lotus]

agreed.

I feel like a daddy 😄

[steady mountain]

Papa Hare will give you treats if you post good screenshots lol

[serene lotus]

Lol

I'm glad you agree with the idea, man. It's been pretty dead lately.

[steady mountain]

Yeah, I loved being on the hof panel and being able to hopefully make some new player's day by chosing their shot

I'd probably annoy Sparky with how many screenshots I choose every time, but hey, it's a nice feeling

[serene lotus]

I was only once on the panel but it was fun

[grizzled wren]

I'll relay this to the mod team. Not a bad idea.

[serene lotus]

awww, thanks you 😗

[steady mountain]

This automatically makes Sparky the best mod on the team

[grizzled wren]

Wait until we approve it lol

[serene lotus]

Aye, Aye!

[serene lotus]

Sparky was always the best.

[autumn heron]

No doubt

Im on it! For sure!!

[serene lotus]

Awesome, you better think now about your contribution to the prize pool xD

[lament scroll]

100% this, I got into the HoF on like my third week in the game and I flaunted that shit to everyone I knew who played the game lol

It wasn’t even that good of a screenshot iirc

[autumn heron]

Sure I can contribute, even it costing 5x to me

[lament scroll]

Found it

[autumn heron]

There are many reasons to classify a picture

[steady mountain]

That's composed quite well, even if you didn't realise it

The main focus is in the right hand side, your character lining up pretty well with the grid you find in cameras (rule of thirds) and the light point is also on a main focus point on that grid, where the bottom left lines intersect

[serene lotus]

I have a memory of an elephant. Thanks 🙂

[serene lotus]

I love Khartu-Al

And the quantum travel effect is superb.

[fluid vector]

Fill me in guys whatz happenin

[slow oar]

https://tenor.com/view/toy-story-buzz-lightyear-will-somebody-please-explain-whats-going-on-whats-going-on-what-is-happening-gif-23011882

[steady mountain]

We want to revitalise the screenshot love

So Matt thought to host some themed things every so often and suggested we start with like a 'new player' screenshot comp for those who haven't really posted much/ afraid to post

We're slowly amassing a small prize pool so we can dish those out

[lament scroll]

It’s such a fun ship, one of like 3 light fighters I actually enjoy

[serene lotus]

I don't "fighter" but yeah I absolutely love the design and animations. It's sick 😄

[lament scroll]

Makes me want the sty so badly

[serene lotus]

the sty?

@slow oar

Hi 😄

[lament scroll]

Santok yai

[serene lotus]

Ahhh

I read that guy's article about it yesterday.

[autumn heron]

karthu carries stanton as it front light

[serene lotus]

Santokyai is dope, man.

I love its cockpit. It says "Try me. alien b*tch"

[lament scroll]

Talon is right up there too

[steady mountain]

I'm a Scorp kinda guy

But i'm bias because I love X-Wings

Plus ludicrous firepower in a relatively small package

But anyway, wrong channel for that

[lament scroll]

Sexy af

[autumn heron]

I see it as a canguru pouch

[lament scroll]

Whoops

[autumn heron]

Guy

For real..

[serene lotus]

My anxiety tells me I need to center that.

[autumn heron]

I'm not a fan of alien ships

[lament scroll]

Lmao no post editing here

[autumn heron]

your anxiety guided many corrections in my screenshots, jut saying 😂

[steady mountain]

Yes, but

[autumn heron]

But, Talon and Prowler jut got me

[serene lotus]

LoL. Thanks, man. You don't know how much that means to my anxiety.

[lament scroll]

Counter points

[serene lotus]

The first one...

Oof....

Maaaaan

[autumn heron]

Can we vote for HOFs here too?! haha

[serene lotus]

hahah

Let's

xD

[lament scroll]

Depth of field is a huge game changer

[serene lotus]

It is, man.

[autumn heron]

and I just forget it many times

[serene lotus]

victor didn't like blur too much, still his shots were mint, man.

Maxper, as well.

There is this Irmdall

Guy's really really good.

[lament scroll]

I don’t like excessive blur, but just just a touch makes or breaks a shot

[lament scroll]

Yeah whatever irmdall does is not fair whatsoever. I need his rig badly

He’s too good

[serene lotus]

No one's too good, man.

We speak to different parts of the audience. Look how many people are in this channel.

I mean, not this, but screenshots.

every time you post something.

It goes to all of them.

Also WeeHamster

this guy..

roar.

[lament scroll]

Ye definitely, I love seeing other people’s interpretations of lighting and composition

[serene lotus]

There you go.

Are you taking part in the competition?

[lament scroll]

Also gives me inspiration for my shots

[serene lotus]

I mean, as a sponsor?

😄

[steady mountain]

If two negatives make a positive, two positives must make a negative

[lament scroll]

I don’t really got irl money to spare but I could add some aUEC to the pool or sumn

[serene lotus]

fucking love you, man. All hands aboard, all that matters.

[lament scroll]

The only reason I have a talon in my fleet is that it was a prize

[serene lotus]

you won it?

[lament scroll]

100$ is steep for a fighter

Ye third place in the alien week photo contest

[serene lotus]

LoL. Congrats????

[lament scroll]

It’s just so sexy

[lament scroll]

It was this shot for the theme “first contact”

[steady mountain]

Haven't seen Max around here much recently, I preferred the earlier stuff they did without loads of post edits actually, still did great stuff though

[serene lotus]

Too much edit is too much edit. We can all see when that happens.

I know, it's not easy to point it out.

[steady mountain]

Yeah, I always feel bad because it feels i'm taking a dig at them

[lament scroll]

There are some editing that I’m 100% behind tho, some dude was doing cel shaded shots of ships and the Corsair one was fuckin amazing

[serene lotus]

Nah. it's just a constructive criticism. I admire their work.

If I overdo with the blur I want someone to tell me xD

[steady mountain]

Yeah, we've all had our bad edit days

Went to use Cupscale to touch up recent shots only to remember there's a whole bunch of shit I have to do to get it working

Maybe later lol

[slow oar]

Howdy

[serene lotus]

If you need a hand with cuspcale just let us know.

Hey, Lex.

Long time.

[slow oar]

Yeah, busy little piggy nowadays

[steady mountain]

I know what I need to do, it's somewhere in one of these channels, just gotta get it working with my gpu because of the python thing

[serene lotus]

poor fucking you, man. 😛

How have you been?

[slow oar]

Been in a barfight today lol

[autumn heron]

Oh yeeah. I remember you

Congrats again!!!! o7

[serene lotus]

Ah, man. You got it!

[slow oar]

Planning on getting some pics this weekend

[serene lotus]

Weow Weow Weow!!!

[autumn heron]

These guys are real aliens, not the mexican shown today

[slow oar]

Those aliens that were clearly made by a 6 year old Mexican kids in school?

[lament scroll]

Found the cel shading

Wish I knew how to do this

[autumn heron]

Ah, nice

I think CIG higlighted it somewhere.

[steady mountain]

That sounds eventful

[steady mountain]

Oh shit that's nice

I think it's art though, not a shader

It's far too clean to be a shader

Wish there was a shader like that though

[lament scroll]

They highlighted a cel shaded nova tank with vaporwave coloring a week or two ago in the weekly update

This guy

[lament scroll]

I want a cel shading shader so badly it’s my favorite aesthetic

[steady mountain]

There are some shaders for it but they're naff

[lament scroll]

Dragonball fighterZ, lethal league blaze, jet set radio, etc

Bomb rush cyberfunk

[steady mountain]

I'll have a look around and see if I can get a good shot in with the cell shader

[fluid vector]

pretty sure this was made externally and not with any shaders

i should probably play with my shaders i havent touched them since i got them

i dont even remember where my reshade folder is

[lament scroll]

Yeah I think it was blender

[steady mountain]

Should be in your sc live/ ptu folder, bin32, shaders

[fluid vector]

i have made a borderlands shader

trying to balance it out so its cool but you can still read

alright i think i nailed it

with the UI being mostly readable

[steady mountain]

It's a weird look but could work

Borderlands has the advantage of being designed to look that way, of course

[steady mountain]

Are those the models you use? Cupscale seems to be working again for me, for whatever reason. Not complaining about Python anymore

I may have spoken too soon

[steady mountain]

Fixed it, working as it should be now

Thank god

That was a pain in the arse

Not sure how much of a difference it really made, but now with AA!

[cobalt swift]

Yeah I can see some spots that got fixed

Looks amazing

I wish they would update Crusaders texture from far to make it looks more like it does up close

[steady mountain]

I like the classic look

[cobalt swift]

Because from far away now it kinda reminds me of a Starfield planet texture

[steady mountain]

But yeah, changes are good

[cobalt swift]

Yeah I mean it’s not terrible but imo it could be better

[steady mountain]

Be nice if they could smooth out the edges of planets and moons a bit

[cobalt swift]

I wish there where some moons with like no atmosphere

Like no little haze above the surface

Like the real moon doesn’t have any haze like earth does bc of its lack of atmo

Like this

Just a clean edge

[steady mountain]

Yeah

Sometimes the atmosphere haze just really abruptly cuts off, I don't know if that happens in space too but it's irritating it isn't a smoother transition

[fluid vector]

Wlala

[serene lotus]

Yeah, cupscale installation might be a bit tricky for those with RTX 3080 and above. You then need to install some additional libraries missing from the system. There is a manual for that, as well.

[steady mountain]

I seemed to have fixed it last night

Spent far too long fixing it though lol so who knows

[steady mountain]

We have more meridian paints

I am so happy

I love using the reflections to get some really nice colours on the ships

[steady mountain]

One thing I forgot to ask when this was all happening, what theme are you thinking of for the newer players/ new screenshotters to compete with?

[autumn heron]

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/pirate-week-treasure-hunt-screenshot-contest

Just saying.

[steady mountain]

I was thinking the same thing lol

KRF is a right bastard to land near though

[autumn heron]

Ah, yeah.

[steady mountain]

I can get into the escape tube most of the time, can get quite few people down there in one ship

[autumn heron]

We can use piracy as a theme, not the same location

[steady mountain]

We have two locations, one is outside the tube and the other seems to be the garages?

[serene lotus]

This whole pirating might be a good idea, after all.

[steady mountain]

Could work, depends when/ if we get the ok from the mod team

[fluid vector]

shaders cool

[steady mountain]

Shader's wacky

Should try it out with the alien qt

[autumn heron]

@rose silo

[lament scroll]

Ayo anyone here know about reshade error codes

I'm not getting screenshots saved anymore

Here's my error log, I've tried looking into what format 10 is but I have no idea

[lament scroll]

Figured it out, ReShade doesn’t support hdr pics

[serene lotus]

@autumn heron I'm learning to move the convo from screenshots channel to here.

So, catch 22 about the paint?

[serene lotus]

Plus, you need to be careful how you capture images cause they might not display correctly in Windows.

Hence I forgot about HDR for now.

[autumn heron]

So am I

It's a shame the 100i's foundation paint isn't standalone.

I don't wanna keep the 100i in hangar

[serene lotus]

It's a nice ship but pretty replaceable with something much better.

I mean, I love the design of Origin ships, in general, so I'm biased.

Oh btw, be careful with HDR when taking snaps.

They might not display correctly depending on the way you capture your content, like with those funking jxr files.

I use Nvidia Experience and it saves files this way. A pain in the a**.

[steady mountain]

When exploration comes in, Origin is going to become much more useful

And the egg will have its rework

[serene lotus]

God, I hope, man,

I will go back to 600i when exploration is a thing.

I love the ship and I love the idea of traversing the universe alone.

[steady mountain]

I will go back to it when either exploration comes in or the rework comes in

[serene lotus]

med bed? Aye, Sir.

[steady mountain]

Plus it looks hot

Especially the touring

[serene lotus]

hahah, yes it does.

I prefer explorer.

it comes with G12, nominally.

[steady mountain]

I keep forgetting the touring exists because the ex is so mainstream (and better)

I've just got the entire origin pack in my hangar, I have no shame in it

[serene lotus]

Bravo to you, pal. I love Origin ships.

[steady mountain]

I just love Origin, something special about them

[serene lotus]

I mean, the hull line of 600i is just mind-blowing.

how they wrapped it around the engines, etc

[steady mountain]

Yeah, their flowing design language is just nice

[serene lotus]

Hull C is beautiful, man. I mean, it's heavy af but I can imagine me playing with others, on my ship, earning some serious money.

First time in my career in SC I want to play with others.

f lol.

[steady mountain]

Yeah I really hope that newer updates bring in that need/ want to play with others and get into the game a bit more

Speaking of Origin

G12 just got added to the progress tracker

[serene lotus]

I mean, so far I wasn't even considering it when the co-op is was mostly shotting bad guys and robbing the others.

G12?

Oh f*ck, man!

yessss

I can't wait.

[steady mountain]

The zoomy ground egg

[serene lotus]

It's beautiful.

Just like Lynx is.

[steady mountain]

I feel like they should be faster than the cyclones because they're more aerodynamic

[serene lotus]

and heavier?

Much heavier?

[steady mountain]

And they look so sleek

Probably

[serene lotus]

Yeah

[steady mountain]

All that fancy is gonna weigh a bit

[serene lotus]

The double glazed windows 😄

[steady mountain]

Gotta keep the heat in

[serene lotus]

and the nice view out

[steady mountain]

Wide, panoramic roof and windshield

[serene lotus]

plus, glass of Advocat.

[steady mountain]

Fancy headlights that brighten up when you corner lol

[serene lotus]

it's as posh as Origin.

It should be made by them instead 😄

[steady mountain]

Just as long as it stays reliable, can't have the electonics failing like their real world counterparts (that I shall not name) do

[serene lotus]

lol, it's as reliable as the server which we both know the answer 😄

Lost my cargo to 30K with Hull C, reloged, spawned the ship inside the station, with its spindles unfolded.

I even managed to get to the bridge through a merger of the station and the ship, but couldn't fly it away.