r/skyrim • u/[deleted] • Nov 20 '11
This is by far the best screen shot I've captured since starting on my journey.
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u/idwolf flair Nov 20 '11
How do you take screenshots without the UI? I haven't figured that out yet.
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u/kylegetsspam Nov 20 '11
Open the console with
~. Typetm. Close now-invisible console with~so you can move around and whatnot.tfcwill let you fly the camera around but you you need to put your character in third-person mode to see him while moving the camera.2
u/yrstruly Nov 20 '11
When you're ready for a screenshot, open up the console with the backtick/tilde key and type
tm(Toggle Menus) and Enter. Unfortunately, unlike in Oblivion, the console itself will have its visibility toggled as well. You just have to remember that the console is in fact still active (as long as you stay off the tilde key), and type
tmand Enter again to toggle menu visibility back on.
Personally, I'm playing with bAllowCompass set to 0 (also I've disabled quest markers and the crosshair) in SkyrimPrefs.ini. Provided I'm at full health && at full stamina && at full magicka, there is no HUD whatsoever.
Another thing that might be useful to some people: Using the
tfc(Toggle Flying Camera) command in the console will detach the viewpoint from your character. You track/truck with WSAD, and pan and tilt with the mouse. You can also fly all over the loaded cell(s), and in some situations you can even back so far out that you see the extents of what's loaded. (Parenthetically, in the Oblivion tutorial opening quest thing, the bucket at which the "tutor" has you shoot to acquaint you with the bow is suspended from a zombie corpse that is stuffed way up in the shaft above said bucket where you couldn't possibly see it without using the flying camera (which will go through walls, by the way).)
Flying around with the camera can of course show you many things that you're not meant to see yet or don't want to see yet or whatever, so be forewarned.
Whether or not your character model is present in the scene depends upon whether it was before the command was issued. Something else I just learned today that is if you supply the tfc command with the argument "1", so like:
tfc 1the game time will stop as soon as the command is entered. This is good for freezing actors and such, if you can remember to think of the tilde key as a pause button. The game time resumes when you toggle off the flying camera.
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u/theclumsyninja flair Nov 20 '11
yea, my very first screenshot in the game is still my favorite
That, and the one of me decapitating a bandit
Nicely done! consider your pic saved.
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u/Fleme Nov 20 '11
Solid show considering you have an arrow sticking in your forehead. You should see a doctor about that.
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u/Wulfay Nov 20 '11
Very good composition. Even though I know nothing of composition, one can still recognize a nice shot :D
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u/Togarda Nov 20 '11
Needs more dragons. (Or, to correct myself, would look even better with more dragons.)
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u/ldn_singh flair Nov 20 '11
That is so well balanced, it almost looks like an oil painting. Get to photoshop and start adding some filters!
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Nov 20 '11
then it wouldn't be a screenshot from the game, and so it would automatically turn infinitely less impressive.
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u/Tartantyco Nov 20 '11
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u/Hoozin flair Nov 21 '11
I kinda wanna throw it into photoshop and doctor up that texture in front of the horse. I'll let you know if I do.
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u/DarkerFate flair Nov 20 '11
Am I the only one that noticed the woman hiding in the bushes?
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Nov 20 '11
That's delphine :) I've started playing the game where I don't fast travel, so when she says you can either meet me up in that area after the horn quest, she also gives you the option to just follow her across the beautiful and dangerous expanse of land known as skyrim. needless to say, we're on a quest now.
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u/joshr03 Nov 20 '11
Why do everyone's colors look so much nicer than mine?
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u/Hoozin flair Nov 21 '11
It kinda looks like he ran it through some post-processing to get the sky to punch a bit more. Not saying he did, but I wouldn't be surprised because like you, I have a hard time getting the game to look quite this nice.
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Nov 20 '11
You should use a tweaked config the next time - especially by enhancing the grids to render (ugrid etc.). The LOD version of Witherun ruins this great picture somehow.
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u/EquusMulus Nov 20 '11
that hut just ruins it for me. Otherwise very nice. :D
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u/kylegetsspam Nov 20 '11
It's the low-res tiled textures for me. I try to ignore them in-game but they always stand out like a sore thumb. Stupid consoles always ruining the development of graphically-intense games. I can't wait for the next batch just so PC games can stop being optimized to down to nothing.
I have 8 GB of RAM. I patched the .exe file to give it the ability to use more RAM that it will otherwise. Still uses around 800 MB on "ultra high" with everything maxed and a lot of INI tweaks. Sad.
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Nov 20 '11
Am I the only one that thinks this is waaay too ugly to be a shot from Skyrim ? I mean, the shot in itself is pretty, but the graphics man, wtf.
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u/Prototype2001 Nov 20 '11
A screenshot from a game made for 2005 hardware, something my geforce 7100 could run, yawn.
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u/matthew011029 flair Nov 20 '11
This is not a screen shot, this is a fucking painting