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Posted by: SrNekro.9526

SrNekro.9526

I am such a big fan of this type of “Art” that GW2 have. The soundtrack, the story’s script, The Vistas, the environment, is all beautiful. But, it quite bugs me not having a more “professional” way to “print screen” some random moments on the environment itself. I mean, the Vistas is awesome but there is also others “awesome” “pictures” that you may find at total random while you are walking towards a Quest. I am simply asking the consideration of creating some sort of “print screen” where it will only take “the part of the environment you are seeing”. I have taken some screen shot to help me exemplify my argument. I hope you all understand what I am asking, if not, let me know.
I know this is a small thing, and irrelevant thing to ask, but maybe to you, I take Art on Gaming a little bit too serious, and I feel such a waste of not able to take full advantage of these beautiful random moments.

PS: If I am the only one who thinks like this, I will understand the denying of this “idea” (if you can call it like that)..

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Posted by: Rognik.2579

Rognik.2579

I think I recall comments like this back near launch, how people wanted to capture the landscape without the character being seen, and the closest they came up with was having the character /sleep then zooming in as close as possible. ArenaNet has said that they don’t want to make a first-person view because they feel seeing the character is important, but I guess there are other ways to deal with the issue.

Random thoughts:
*I do know there is a way to remove the UI, but I don’t know how off-hand.
*Perhaps one day, an inventor can come up with some kind of camera to take photographs. It could be a fun device you just pull out and take random snapshots of the world. It could even have a scavenger hunt element to it, like photograph certain landmarks, or the different enemies. That would certainly be a way to re-introduce the information books from the betas: a photo of the bandits will give a lore-dump on their motives.
*I have to admit, while the landscape is very pretty there, I’m not exactly certain what you’re trying to capture in that specific screenshot. It might be artistic; I admit I don’t truly appreciate some of the photographic art out there.

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Posted by: SrNekro.9526

SrNekro.9526

I think I recall comments like this back near launch, how people wanted to capture the landscape without the character being seen, and the closest they came up with was having the character /sleep then zooming in as close as possible. ArenaNet has said that they don’t want to make a first-person view because they feel seeing the character is important, but I guess there are other ways to deal with the issue.

Random thoughts:
*I do know there is a way to remove the UI, but I don’t know how off-hand.
*Perhaps one day, an inventor can come up with some kind of camera to take photographs. It could be a fun device you just pull out and take random snapshots of the world. It could even have a scavenger hunt element to it, like photograph certain landmarks, or the different enemies. That would certainly be a way to re-introduce the information books from the betas: a photo of the bandits will give a lore-dump on their motives.
*I have to admit, while the landscape is very pretty there, I’m not exactly certain what you’re trying to capture in that specific screenshot. It might be artistic; I admit I don’t truly appreciate some of the photographic art out there.

You said everything I said but in better words than I ever could have, so, I thank you for spending your time on completing my “suggestion”. And ofc, I agree on everything you said

On a minor note, I tried to snap shot the Moon xD (I LOVE “night art”).

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Posted by: Vikkela.7261

Vikkela.7261

ctrl + shift + h

9 Guardians later…

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Posted by: Michael Walker.8150

Michael Walker.8150

maybe you’d like to post here

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Beauty-of-Guild-Wars-2/page/2#post4401005

you can use /sleep chat command to hide your character, works best on a slope or against a wall because this forces the camera to skip your character.

if you are underwater, simply face a vertical surface like the wall of a quaggan house, slopes or rocks.

For screenshots of your character, use the camera position slider to get the char out of the center

They have also changed the camera slightly in the most recent update

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Posted by: SrNekro.9526

SrNekro.9526

Thank you guys very much for helping me and I realy apreciate the tips, I will use them for sure!! ^^