Guild Wars 2

Re: Screenshot full so quickly
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Screenshot folder can hold only 999 pictures.
Can we make the automated numbering like Char_Name_yymmdd_nnn?
I am actually taking more than 1000 pictures a week.

I think adding Char_Name shall be helpful to those who play multiple toons?

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Re: High Resolution Pure Landscape Picture taking
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Very often I have to stop, open up settings, adjust all distance dependent details to maximum, close all UI, take a few shots, resume UI, then resume Graphic Quality settings to get acceptable FPS for combats. I spent a lot of time taking pictures, and am wondering if there can be

(1) a key bound to take High Quality picture without need to change setting?

(2) a key bound to close all UI, take a picture, and resume all UI?

I also took pictures in combat, but the current key functions forced me to either stop moving & stand still to take a picture without UI, or otherwise in order to keep my toon in action, I have to take a picture with UI on.

As a result, I very often fight blindly without using UI just so that I can take pictures.

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Re: UI / Combat Pictures taking

If the above key mappings will not be in the right direction for any reason, I am wondering if there can be a minimalist UI.

Probably only a bar with a 10-pixel height, 10% of monitor width or so, to show HP.
It is black or transparent when HP is full. Nothing else, just so that I know when to switch the UI back on and stop picture taking.

Or to be more functional, we may have a row with a 10-pixel height at the bottom of the screen, showing status of all weapon/skill buttons. It will look like a minimum status bar, which does not show any graphic but the status colours of each button: (Or it can be actually a “windowed” status bar “outside” the game graphics).

The buttons are void of text content, black when no status / conditions are applied, black when the key is available not in cool down, black when health is full… These buttons may include:

f1-f2-f3-f4-1-2-3-4-5-RED Bar (HP)-Yellow Bar (Endurance)- Coloured Status Bar (Condition Indication)-6-7-8-9-0 ….

All the names or status of the mobs/npc/players, all text, all looted or rewarded items are disabled in this minimized UI mode.

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At any rate, I think a key to automatically take pictures without UI at the best graphical quality setting is the best solution. However, I do enjoy savouring the landscape, solving the jump puzzles with the UI all turned off.

1 – The high quality setting is more than just turning all the graphical effects. It’s related to getting textures and such to be the biggest resolution and last time it worked it was having problems.

2 – This is actually in the game, but broken

Unpredictability.4086:

1 – The high quality setting is more than just turning all the graphical effects. It’s related to getting textures and such to be the biggest resolution and last time it worked it was having problems.

Perhaps let’s be able to store two custom settings: one is High, another is Good.
Two (picture taking) keys are mapped to the two settings respectively.

It can be useful for mobile players whose internet conditions vary everyday.

Unpredictability.4086:

1 – The high quality setting is more than just turning all the graphical effects. It’s related to getting textures and such to be the biggest resolution and last time it worked it was having problems.

Probably resolution doesn’t need to be reset for picture taking purpose. I feel this will greatly affect the smoothness of game play.

It doesn’t change your resolution in real time, I’m not sure how it works but it produces massive dimension pictures.

“2 – This is actually in the game, but broken”

control+shift+H is broken? :/

Swordbreaker.2581:

“2 – This is actually in the game, but broken”

control+shift+H is broken? :/

No, that works fine. But when you’re in combat, it’s VERY hard to do the whole “CTRL+SHFT+H PRTSCN CTLR_SHFT+H” sequence without being killed or losing some of the dynamic feel of an “in combat screenshot.”

I think what they’re asking for (and what’s broken?) is a single keypress function that will hide the UI, grab a screenshot, and enable the UI again. That way you can get all the action, with none of the “Ok everyone, DON’T MOVE! I wanna take a picture of this!” hassle.

Freeze-frames didn’t work on Police Squad, and the sure don’t work in PvP.

I am not talking about control + shift + H then print screen and back again nor am I talking about a single press of a button to hide the UI and take an image.

I am talking about Shift + Printscreen, which auto hides the UI and takes an image, like in GW1. I can’t find my source, but I am pretty sure this was planned for GW2 as well. However, it doesn’t hide the UI like it should.

Unpredictability:
I heard there had been such a key back into a beta weekend for a short period of time or so.

I use a macro on my Logitech G13 gameboard exactly for this purpose: “hide UI – take screenshot – enable UI”.

It is actually my only multi-key macro and it does not offer any game advantage so I am confident it is allowed without problems.

Maybe you could set up something similar for your purposes. I know there are many macro managers around, even for non-dedicated hardware.