August Screenshot Competition

**Senshi** · 08-04-2008, 14:03

Originally Posted by General Appo

Actually that´s not a bad idea. Done.
Senshi, I´ve tried using Fraps and such, but it was just too much work.

Fraps and too much work?

It's quite a "Install&forget"-feature for me, I have it autostart everytime I boot up (as it requires near to no resources in standby), just setup a key you never use and that's it.

Of course Fraps spits out large .bmp files (as making .jpgs directly would cause bigtime lag when you press the Screenshot-Button), but compressing it into .jpg afterwards is a quickie, IrfanView or one of the many other common image viewer programs comfortably support that.

EDIT: Submitting a picture of my own...

Shock and awe in Epidamnos

Well, artillery can be pretty inprecise...and flaming...but that's what happens when one doesn't think twice before daring to invade the Koinon Hellenon homelands, bringing the wrath of the Koinon army upon them...

Love how busy the screen looks, all those poor levies running around scared, trying to regroup in the rear while a desperate cavalry charge stops my rushing troops near the wall, while on the bottom my orderly light infantry formations march forward

**Rilder** · 08-04-2008, 14:17

Meh, fraps doesn't work on my computer unless I wan't to log-off and play via my computers Admin account.

**Hooahguy** · 08-04-2008, 15:31

"the fight"

**Tellos Athenaios** · 08-04-2008, 16:42

@Shenshi: usually I don't care much for "siege pics" because the RTW engine simply fails at rendering pretty buildings (by modern standards) or the angle of the shot is just lousy (what with most of the units & stuff obscured by limited 'angle of visibility'). However the titled bird's eye view perspective you choose really does work wonders here.

**Senshi** · 08-04-2008, 17:37

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

@Shenshi: usually I don't care much for "siege pics" because the RTW engine simply fails at rendering pretty buildings (by modern standards) or the angle of the shot is just lousy (what with most of the units & stuff obscured by limited 'angle of visibility'). However the titled bird's eye view perspective you choose really does work wonders here.

I completely second that, problem with siege pics is that one picture almost never manages to get all the cool atmosphere in place (for reasons you stated) and another big contra is that really everybody sees these scenarios dozens of time in his own campaign, as I dare to say more than 70% of battles are siege battles, and there really is not that much variety in city layouts...