Tammy’s GamicPress Corner #9
Hiya all, welcome to Tammy’s Corner again. This week, we will be focusing on how to take proper screen shots for your Gamic. Also I’ve completed the last character sprites for Bunny1st job. Taking a good shots is crucial because, it reduces the need to do graphical touch ups later on.
First of all, I would like to thank NTreev for the new Trickster UI patch…weee we can finally turn the pets dialogue off…is annoying to capture a good screen shot sometimes because of pet’s dialogue blocking the view.
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To have a good screenshot, your snapshots should be using BMP instead of JPEG, JPEG’s output is somewhat compress and the quality is not suitable when you adjust the size. Another plus factor of using bitmap is works better with Magic Wand selection (pixels). Make sure you selected BMP under function of options. You can adjust these option by pressing O key.
During capturing session best to turn your chat bar off, you can do that by pressing Enter key. You can always bring the chat bar back up by press Enter again. Click on BMP under Screen Shot. Next we will need to remove some unnecessary special effects, and map effect and the new option to turn Pet Dialogue OFF.
Another good tips is to switch off, Players Dialogue especially those Shop notice, My Camp Notice and Party, Chat dialogue. To do so, Hold Space to Print Screen.Â
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June 28th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
they ph41l in making good lines
July 1st, 2008 at 9:04 am
nice work , but i think that Bmp is mostly larger size than Jpg and will take much space and time uploading and also time
to show in a web page online ?
don’t you think ?
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July 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am
oh tat, is for editing purpose. Coz is easier to zoom in seeing pure pixels due to bitmap exact pixel format than, lossly compressed format of jpeg. If you lets say take a picture of a character on a green grassy floor in bitmap, is easier to just magic wand it and extract character out in bitmap form. Magic works best with pixel and color matching.
As compared with jpeg; is the game engine doesnt really gives u jpeg in uncompress format, so u lose out a lot on colors; magic wand will have difficult time over there. Then, again you can always extract cut out using Agent Tammy’s cut off techniques but, there are times magic wand will do the trick easily.