Screenshot, For Azura's Sake

Rudrani

ZoS, pleeeeease take a page from how SkyForge does screenshots.

JamieAubrey

Hide UI
Take Screenshot

renne

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Minyassa

You have to go to Controls and bind a key to remove your UI. By default it's unbound. Once you do that you can turn the UI off for screenshots.

Vevvev

Can also adjust your camera in settings to angle it just right, or you can go first person and line it up how you want like how you would a handheld camera.

Taleof2Cities

JamieAubrey wrote: »

Hide UI
Take Screenshot

^ This is how I take all my screenshots ... no add-ons needed.

Example below:

tomofhyrule

You can manually turn off glows/healthbars/indicators and edit the camera angles in Settings. The UI can be toggled on/off with a hotkey you need to set in controls, but that's all native.

But screenshots are one of the few places I will use addons. ScreenshotHelper ftw. What ScreenshotHelper does is autobinds all of the toggles for indicators with the UI toggle, and also allows you to change the camera angle with a few more buttons while you're in UI off mode (which acts like a camera mode). It's still bound to the native angles so you can't move the camera down, but you still have a lot of freedom side to side to get e.g. two characters in frame

I spend way too much time taking screenshots for storytelling (like I've currently got 2400 screenshots from the last four days of playing that I need to sort though), so I love playing with emotes and the like. ScreenshotHelper is great for that. Action shots are a bit tougher since you have to fight and rotate the camera at the same time, but sometimes I can luck into some great shots there.

And because I'm really proud of these shots and want an excuse to show them off...

Rudrani

PC people... think base game please.

Also just go check out how Skyforge does it, then come back and go through your setting to turn off all your options that you need on when you play, and then dont be able to do any emote or memento while you have the ui hidden, and cant get any depth of feild... if you then still say "its fine already" you just have no taste.

Rudrani

ps @tomofhyrule those screenshots are BUFF!

Danikat

Rather than telling people to go and download and play another game in the hope they'll have the same experiences you have with these features and draw the same conclusions it would be much more effective if you could summarise what you like about that game's screenshots and what you think ZOS could take from it.

What does Skyforge do that ESO doesn't? Why would that benefit ESO? How do you imagine it being integrated into the UI and options we currently have?

Alternatively, or as well, you could show us some screenshots from Skyforge to illustrate what it can do which ESO can't.

At the moment you've given us absolutely no information to go on except that you say it is better in some vague way. That's not giving anyone an incentive to support your idea, which is probably why all you've had is people saying what we've got is fine. It's very unlikely that anyone is going to take the time to download and play a different game just to see whether the screenshots are any better but without doing that and without you telling us no one has any way of knowing if this is a good idea or not.

Tremuto

What's a Skyforge? Is that a forge in Western Skyrim?

RedMuse

Tremuto wrote: »

What's a Skyforge? Is that a forge in Western Skyrim?

@Tremuto No it's the ancient forge next to Jorrvaskr in Whiterun. No one knows who built it but it was old even at the time of the Five Hundred Companions, so it's origin is in the early parts of the Merethic Era probably.

No idea what is has to do with screenshotting or how it would in any way help though.

But isn't there a "hide UI" option on all platforms? I admit I'm ignorant of how console works, but it's part of the basic options on PC even though it doesn't have an automatic key bound so you have to choose one yourself.

mairwen85

Has anyone mentioned hiding the UI yet?

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Rudrani wrote: »

ZoS, pleeeeease take a page from how SkyForge does screenshots.

On ps4
1.Option/start button
2. Setting
3. Video
4.Screenshot mode

nukk3r

Tremuto wrote: »

What's a Skyforge? Is that a forge in Western Skyrim?

It's a russian MMO.

Megatto

Rudrani wrote: »

PC people... think base game please.

Also just go check out how Skyforge does it, then come back and go through your setting to turn off all your options that you need on when you play, and then dont be able to do any emote or memento while you have the ui hidden, and cant get any depth of feild... if you then still say "its fine already" you just have no taste.

You say we have no taste?






N'wah please

Mettaricana

This game really is far behind in the simplest of features....

Jaimeh

Rudrani wrote: »

PC people... think base game please.

Also just go check out how Skyforge does it, then come back and go through your setting to turn off all your options that you need on when you play, and then dont be able to do any emote or memento while you have the ui hidden, and cant get any depth of feild... if you then still say "its fine already" you just have no taste.

You can do the memento/emote: you start it and then hide the UI (also you can keybind them with an addon on PC and they can be activated while UI is hidden), not the most convenient way, but it's still possible.

Araneae6537

Mettaricana wrote: »

This game really is far behind in the simplest of features....

What feature in regards to screenshot? In other MMORPGs, as well as ESO, you zoom in or out depending on whether or not you want your character in the shot, toggle off the UI, and take your screenshot. What features have you seen in other games?

Regarding some of the things OP brings up, you can still do emotes and I think mementos if you have it in quickslot and can do both without the UI on PC (no add-ons needed) although I have no idea if it works the same on console. Depth-of-field is an option that you can turn on in settings, if you want it. Personally, I don’t care for such effect as it is only how a camera but not our eyes perceive the world.

Rudrani

Depth of Field is not a console option
You cannot do quickslotted emotes or mementos while in screenshot mode, on console.
The only thing ESO's "screenshot mode" does is remove the UI. It does not even take off the nameplates, etc.

Skyforge is a free Scifi-Fantasy MMORPG.

It is NOWEHRE near as good as ESO, but these are a few things that it beats eso in:

Your skill bar has the timers / cooldown indicators BUILT IN.

You can get a full dps "combat matrix" on any fight, BUILT IN to the base game.

You can hold R3 down (on PS4) to enter screenshot mode. Here is what happens in screenshot mode...

• All of the "video game" elements are removed from the screen, only the actual graphics remain
• You get extensive depth-of-field and focus controls
• The frame is frozen, and you can swivel your camera and zoom in and out on that frozen frame

jircris11

Rudrani wrote: »

PC people... think base game please.

Also just go check out how Skyforge does it, then come back and go through your setting to turn off all your options that you need on when you play, and then dont be able to do any emote or memento while you have the ui hidden, and cant get any depth of feild... if you then still say "its fine already" you just have no taste.

I CAN get the same results as SF on eso using nothing but base game ootions.

Scardan

You can also press mouse wheel to turn off crosshair.

barney2525

I bind my take screenshot to F9 and hide UI to F12, which matches it with other games I play.

Raideen

Agreed OP. I am frankly amazed that a camera mode was not implemented similar to what No Man's Sky uses. One of the best things about ESO is the art, music and storytelling. It's a shame that we do not have better tools to accommodate taking better screenshots.

spartaxoxo

jircris11 wrote: »

Rudrani wrote: »

PC people... think base game please.

Also just go check out how Skyforge does it, then come back and go through your setting to turn off all your options that you need on when you play, and then dont be able to do any emote or memento while you have the ui hidden, and cant get any depth of feild... if you then still say "its fine already" you just have no taste.

I CAN get the same results as SF on eso using nothing but base game ootions.

Not on console you cannot

Nightowl_74

I very rarely take screenshots in ESO because not being able to use emotes, mementos, have any control over basic lighting, zoom, camera angles, or depth of field, makes it frustrating. At least for "selfies". I don't need ALL of that but I'd like a proper zoom and control over the camera, at least. The rest would be awesome, though!

nukk3r

Nightowl_74 wrote: »

I very rarely take screenshots in ESO because not being able to use emotes, mementos, have any control over basic lighting, zoom, camera angles, or depth of field, makes it frustrating. At least for "selfies". I don't need ALL of that but I'd like a proper zoom and control over the camera, at least. The rest would be awesome, though!

You can control the camera via horizontal and vertical offset, zoom with FOV. There are some rudimentary DOF settings built in game already, and if you play on PC you can get better DOF with Reshade's CinematicDOF shader. And you absolutely can use emotes/mementos/skills.

spartaxoxo

nukk3r wrote: »

Nightowl_74 wrote: »

I very rarely take screenshots in ESO because not being able to use emotes, mementos, have any control over basic lighting, zoom, camera angles, or depth of field, makes it frustrating. At least for "selfies". I don't need ALL of that but I'd like a proper zoom and control over the camera, at least. The rest would be awesome, though!

You can control the camera via horizontal and vertical offset, zoom with FOV. There are some rudimentary DOF settings built in game already, and if you play on PC you can get better DOF with Reshade's CinematicDOF shader. And you absolutely can use emotes/mementos/skills.

You cannot do any of that on console.

Nightowl_74

nukk3r wrote: »

Nightowl_74 wrote: »

I very rarely take screenshots in ESO because not being able to use emotes, mementos, have any control over basic lighting, zoom, camera angles, or depth of field, makes it frustrating. At least for "selfies". I don't need ALL of that but I'd like a proper zoom and control over the camera, at least. The rest would be awesome, though!

You can control the camera via horizontal and vertical offset, zoom with FOV. There are some rudimentary DOF settings built in game already, and if you play on PC you can get better DOF with Reshade's CinematicDOF shader. And you absolutely can use emotes/mementos/skills.

The previous poster guessed right, I do play on console and don't have any of those options, but thanks

nukk3r

spartaxoxo wrote: »

nukk3r wrote: »

Nightowl_74 wrote: »

I very rarely take screenshots in ESO because not being able to use emotes, mementos, have any control over basic lighting, zoom, camera angles, or depth of field, makes it frustrating. At least for "selfies". I don't need ALL of that but I'd like a proper zoom and control over the camera, at least. The rest would be awesome, though!

You can control the camera via horizontal and vertical offset, zoom with FOV. There are some rudimentary DOF settings built in game already, and if you play on PC you can get better DOF with Reshade's CinematicDOF shader. And you absolutely can use emotes/mementos/skills.

You cannot do any of that on console.

I checked and it turns out you can do that on consoles as of July 2020, doubt they removed the settings from the game. Watch at 8:40
https://youtu.be/g0TkbM_WGjY?t=526

And there's a Screenshot Mode under Video settings.

AlnilamE

Rudrani wrote: »

Depth of Field is not a console option
You cannot do quickslotted emotes or mementos while in screenshot mode, on console.
The only thing ESO's "screenshot mode" does is remove the UI. It does not even take off the nameplates, etc.

I don't play with nameplates on, so that's not an issue I ever had. The only thing is when you are in a group, you still have carrots over your group members's heads, so you have to leave the group if you want a clean group shot.