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Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:01 pm
by town
Some of my screenies seeing as I couldn't get any tips I thought I'd make it up as I went along.

Landing in inclement weather
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Landing in nice weather
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An overpass at dusk
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and "Dancing in the Moonlight"
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Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:05 pm
by C
Very nice shots...

Gotta love Rick P's JP... :) ;D

My tips - buy the most expensive pc you can, max everything out... ;) ;D

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:10 pm
by 2992
Love the 1st and last shot

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:54 pm
by ThatOnePerson
Nice shots

My tip:Turn on som AA ;)

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:02 am
by Ecko
Nice shots! Love the last one.

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:58 pm
by ctjoyce
What system are you running? They look okey but looks like your card need to be turned up. Display Properties>Settings>Advanced.    unless ofcourse you have an ATi card with Cat 5.10+ and CCC then go there to boost your settings. And when all else fails overlcock 8)

Cheers
Cameron

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:43 am
by town
My system is an AMD Athlon 64 processor 3200+ 1024mb DDR 160Gb hard drive and an Nvidia Geforce FX5500 (256mb video memory)

Its about a year old.

Cheers

Gordon

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:19 am
by Fitter
First shot is so realist 8)

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:17 pm
by krigl
Nice pics, though some might not approve of the spoiler/airbrake combo while landing (worse on take-off, though) in the first..... me, I definately approve...live life on the edge,....

(...of your 'computer seat' ;))

Looks like you've got a good rig, so...

Turn up all settings (autogen, lighting, clouds etc) to max, Anti aliasing in your video card and not in the sim...AA crucial in fact, nothing ruins a pic more than jaggies

Avoid lens flare most of the time....

Download or buy ai traffic

Download or buy a weather and environment program

Download or buy mesh, landclass, ground textures, scenery

Experiment with different weather, times of day, angles...

Use F1 view (freeware) or a payware program to help take screenshots..

Look out for new stuff to show 'the crowd' to give the set 'extra value', or a theme etc for more interest

For the best tips, just look around the screenshot forums for ideas :)

I hope this helps...?  :)

Hope to see more from you...

Cheers

Krigl

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:15 am
by Mees
nothing wrond with that system, but what screenshot capture program are you using? Not GCS aren't you? ::)

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:15 am
by Mees
i mean wrong ;D

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:57 am
by town
what is GCS?

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:58 am
by town
Oh and who swapped one of my pictures ???

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:18 am
by C
Oh and who swapped one of my pictures ???


The last tip is choose very unique filenames for your shots - tornado.jpg is not very unique, and quite commonly will appear in shots of weather or a certain RAF fighter/bomber, and as soon as someone else uploads a "tornado.jpg" it will change again.

I'd suggest you save all your files and upload them with something like "TOHXXXXX.jpg" or "SKYSIMXXXXX.jpg" which will make the chance of someone accidentally overwriting it a lot smaller. :)

Re: Nothing Ventured

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:52 pm
by Mees
GCS is GrabClipSave, are you using that? cuz if you are, stop it. :P