Opie's Panoramic Screens of WoW

[Noblesse]

Now with 50% more Polar Bears!

(I rushed this a little, and some of the pictures seams didnt blend well)



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Do you make them from multiple screenshots or do you draw them from the game files in a 3f modeling program after........ or something else?

I take multiple screenshots in game from the same position, then use photomerge in PS CS5. I believe there may be some programs online that you can upload to, and will merge them for you, but Ive never used them, and not sure if you can edit with them too.

[Kobach]

I take multiple screenshots in game from the same position, then use photomerge in PS CS5. I believe there may be some programs online that you can upload to, and will merge them for you, but Ive never used them, and not sure if you can edit with them too.

No offence or anything Noblesse, your screens are nice and everything. But this thread is about WoW screens, not Skyrim. =\

[Resistlichh]

Helfire peninsula looked nice! Keep it up.

[Kobach]

Do you make them from multiple screenshots or do you draw them from the game files in a 3f modeling program after........ or something else?

I do them all through a specific program that pulls about 30+ screenshots together to make one panoramic portrait.

[Biranth]

:O Nuff said!

[Noblesse]

No offence or anything Noblesse, your screens are nice and everything. But this thread is about WoW screens, not Skyrim. =\

Yea, but I dont have WoW installed anymore.

I took some HDR screen shots a while back, but the thread seemed to of disappeared. Never bothered with panoramic screenshots in WoW thought.

[Kobach]

Added Stormwind Keep and Darnassus. Will be adding the rest of the major cities soon. :)

[Kobach]

Added Caverns of Time

[AidanReed]

Looks great!

[Xianuro]

I loved the SW shot.
I had no idea the SW Keep was that big :O

[Kobach]

[Kobach]

[AkiSakura]

Very nice ^^. You have a good eye. Keep it up.





Something that can help you further in your work:

Warning: Before doing this, make sure your machine can handle Ultra graphics at a reasonable FPS and that you have ample memory on your computer (4GB or more), and a fairly good graphics card with atleast 1GB of memory; this could crash your WoW client or even your computer if you don't follow this warning.

First set all your graphics to Ultra and Multisampling to as high as it will go, create two macros GFX1 & GFX2

GFX1 Code:

/console overridefarclip 1
/console farclip 2100
/console horizonfarclip 7000
/console groundEffectFade 1277
/console groundEffectDist 500
/console groundEffectDensity 256


GFX2 Code:

/console detailDoodadAlpha 100
/console smallcull 0
/console gxDepthBits 32
/console characterAmbient 0
/console SkyCloudLOD 0
/console SpellEffectLevel 100
/console screenshotFormat TGA
/console screenshotQuality 10

Go to the area you'd like to "photograph", Run the two macros.

Then run the Wow Machinima Tool under the C-Environment tab:

1. Fog Density to 0
2. Fog Nearclip to 0
3. Fog Farclip can be messed with, but not necessary.
3. Set View Distance to 2100 or greater (the higher the number the farther, but the more memory you use and you could crash your WoW client if you don't have enough memory.)


Create another macro called Pan.
Pan Code:
/run FlipCameraYaw(45) Screenshot()

Press Alt+Z to get rid of your GUI,

Press the Home key on your keyboard to line up perfectly and zoom in completely, press the key you binded "Pan" to 8 times, wait for Screen Captured to disappear before pressing it each time. I usually like to take 16 shots, not just 8, I will raise the camera angle up about a half screen height and take the 8 additional shots.

Also:
use
/console screenshotFormat TGA
/console screenshotQuality 10

In Photoshop CS4 you can use the Photomerge tool, or any freely available panoramic "stitch" sofware.

Credits go to Cthulhu Ftagn

[wachon]

Very nice ^^. You have a good eye. Keep it up.





Something that can help you further in your work:

Warning: Before doing this, make sure your machine can handle Ultra graphics at a reasonable FPS and that you have ample memory on your computer (4GB or more), and a fairly good graphics card with atleast 1GB of memory; this could crash your WoW client or even your computer if you don't follow this warning.

First set all your graphics to Ultra and Multisampling to as high as it will go, create two macros GFX1 & GFX2

GFX1 Code:

/console overridefarclip 1
/console farclip 2100
/console horizonfarclip 7000
/console groundEffectFade 1277
/console groundEffectDist 500
/console groundEffectDensity 256


GFX2 Code:

/console detailDoodadAlpha 100
/console smallcull 0
/console gxDepthBits 32
/console characterAmbient 0
/console SkyCloudLOD 0
/console SpellEffectLevel 100
/console screenshotFormat TGA
/console screenshotQuality 10

Go to the area you'd like to "photograph", Run the two macros.

Then run the Wow Machinima Tool under the C-Environment tab:

1. Fog Density to 0
2. Fog Nearclip to 0
3. Fog Farclip can be messed with, but not necessary.
3. Set View Distance to 2100 or greater (the higher the number the farther, but the more memory you use and you could crash your WoW client if you don't have enough memory.)


Create another macro called Pan.
Pan Code:
/run FlipCameraYaw(45) Screenshot()

Press Alt+Z to get rid of your GUI,

Press the Home key on your keyboard to line up perfectly and zoom in completely, press the key you binded "Pan" to 8 times, wait for Screen Captured to disappear before pressing it each time. I usually like to take 16 shots, not just 8, I will raise the camera angle up about a half screen height and take the 8 additional shots.

Also:
use
/console screenshotFormat TGA
/console screenshotQuality 10

In Photoshop CS4 you can use the Photomerge tool, or any freely available panoramic "stitch" sofware.

Credits go to Cthulhu Ftagn

i got a problem over here. on this panoramic pictures ppl take u can see freaking westfall and blackrock mountain from goldshire =o like in ur picture. the problem is why i cant. i can barely see stormwind, and yes im playing with ultra graphics. i tried to use the max /farclip but no change. i can never get that vision range u get on panoramic pictures. why is this? id love to play wow with this huge vision range. hope u can help :o

[Kobach]

@AkiSakura Wow. Thanks for that, makes me want to retake my pics again. How does the machinima tool actually work? The way I take my images is with 30-50 shots, I take extra shots so the program can weave them all together nicely with room for error given the wide angle of the whole image. Personally I prefer taking shots manually, can I still do that with the tool?

Also, what does the "/run FlipCameraYaw(45) Screenshot()" actually do? Those images you posted are really nice, but I personally find them to be way too far away, and I'd prefer something closer looking like in my previous images.


On a side note...

... or any freely available panoramic "stitch" sofware.

Honestly I went through 6 programs until I found one that was actually good. It's called Autopano Giga. As of now I wouldn't use anything else, that program is amazing.

i got a problem over here. on this panoramic pictures ppl take u can see freaking westfall and blackrock mountain from goldshire =o like in ur picture. the problem is why i cant. i can barely see stormwind, and yes im playing with ultra graphics. i tried to use the max /farclip but no change. i can never get that vision range u get on panoramic pictures. why is this? id love to play wow with this huge vision range. hope u can help :o

It might have to do with your graphics card and your system memory. I'm not sure. AkiSakura might know, she seems like she knows quite a bit more than me in the graphics department! :D