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HomestarCanter posted:
 Unless it's a game I've played and know a lot about I generally keep my mouth shut because I feel like I have nothing to contribute.
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So I had another run at Chroma Squad image settings, and this time I decided to lower the game resolution to 720. This results in screenshots like this:  And portraits like this with no need to resize.But I worry that the screenshots are a bit big and it's kinda awkward to size down without messing up the text or making it very small. The next smallest resolutions available are extremely tiny and I'm not going to play like that.
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Jul 20, 2021 04:49
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I'm not familiar with Chroma Squad but the game does not seem to be built for any resolutions other than 1080p and 2160p. The resolution they use for the base pixelated image looks like it's 384x216, which is then getting point resized to whatever your display resolution is. That's good for 1080p and 2160p where it produces 5x5 and 10x10 pixel blocks, and terrible for everything else. For your 720p, note for instance the inconsistent text line width depending on where the characters happen to be and weird pixels sizes along the green screen fringe. If the game is pure pixel graphics I'd suggest playing in 1920x1080, which does have correct pixel sizes everywhere, and then resizing down to either 768x432 or 1152x648 using a point filter. That's plain "resize" in irfanview, and something like point or box filter elsewhere. You could play the game in the target resolution if it is available, but I suspect those two are not in the dropdown. If the game has any special effects that run at a non-pixel resolution -- this is pretty common in modern pixel art stuff -- then you'll want to use a resample filter instead of a point resize to avoid them getting mangled. Anyhow, at those screenshot sizes you'd get something like this (resized from a 1920x1080 image on the Steam store page). 738x432:  1152x648 
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Jul 20, 2021 08:00
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The LP archive limits images to 900 pixels wide, so keep that in mind if you want your LP to be archived.
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Jul 20, 2021 13:49
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So I tried a quick 1080p recording and did the 1152x648 resize and came out with this  Which also gives me portraits of this size!I think that's the ticket.
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Jul 20, 2021 14:18
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Waffleman_ posted:So I tried a quick 1080p recording and did the 1152x648 resize and came out with this I'd muck a bit more with the original resolution, non-integer scaling tends to look like poo poo if you want to have crisp pixels (as seen in the small text in your screenshot).
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Jul 20, 2021 21:35
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I'm gonna be honest, that's just how the text is. I'm running the game at the highest resolution it'll go. It looks like that in the raw screenshot. That particular font they use for the smaller text is just not great. Like, it's so thin that it's hard to retain the overall crispness and also make the font look good. E: I think this works? 
Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 22:02
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Pierzak posted:I'd muck a bit more with the original resolution, non-integer scaling tends to look like poo poo if you want to have crisp pixels (as seen in the small text in your screenshot). This is downscaling so the only integer option is 0  This seems better for the UI but it means messing up the pixels in the main play area again. At 960x540 every line alternates between 2 and 3 pixels in height so the greenscreen fringe is messed up again, for instance. Anyhow, looks like Chroma Squad indeed does simultaneously use different pixel resolutions for different game elements. The small text and other UI overlay elements in that particular screenshot look like 3x3 pixel blocks. It's not uncommon for modern pixel art stuff, but they seem to have really taken it to an extreme. The main game window seems to use 5x5 pixels when playing, but seem to be 6x6 pixels when used as "zoomed in" backgrounds for some menus. The UI pixel scale seems to vary between 2x2, 3x3, 6x6 or 12x12 pixel blocks for different fonts and elements. The UI also seems to do font layout and kerning at a subpixel scale, and occasionally fucks up its own text rendering at 1080p with some letters and words ending up lopsided. The result is that even though it's a pixel game it's just not possible to preserve crisp pixels everywhere when resizing. The main game will generally look best at 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.6x or 0.8x scaling. The UI mostly has versions of 3x3 pixels and should mostly handle 0.33x or 0.67x scaling (720p), but because they use subpixel offsets it still wont resize without filtering. That means a couple of things: - You have to do a filtered resample, not a simple point sample resize as is usually recommended with pixel graphics. This will blur pixels, but the alternative is worse. - You can control which part of the image is hosed up the least to some extent. -- 768x432 (0.4x scale) and 1152x648 (0.6x scale) will generally preserve the pixels in the main play area, minus whatever blurring (E: and ringing) the resample does, but not the UI. -- 1280x720 (0.67x scale) will preserve the UI and menus like the equipment screen, most of the time, when the font kerning plays nice. Example screenshots. The base 1920x1080 shots are taken from the Steam page, so I'm just hoping the publisher didn't mess them up. Smaller versions are rescaled using a Lanczos filter (which is a high quality filter in general, but may or may not be best for this use case). 1: UI heavy. Fonts are 3x3 or 2x2 pixels wide, background is I think 6x6 pixels.    Note the base screenshot itself has messed up pixel sizes on some text. 2: In-game. 5x5 pixels, but font is offset by subpixels.    tl;dr: do a resample to a lower target resolution of your choice. Options include 768x432 (matches the main game graphics, meets lparchive restrictions), 1152x648 (matches main game graphics, but over width for archive) or 1280x720 (720p is a standard resolution, matches most of the menus and UI). Xerophyte fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Jul 21, 2021 05:50
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Yeah, I had been experimenting with resamples myself, and I think the pretty slight drop in crispness is a price I'll have to pay. I think it helps that the sprites use a lot of just solid colors without a whole lot of shading, which doesn't make the artifacting as bad as it could be with pixel art.
Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Jul 21, 2021 06:05
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Waffleman_ posted:Yeah, I had been experimenting with resamples myself, and I think the pretty slight drop in crispness is a price I'll have to pay. I think it helps that the sprites use a lot of just solid colors without a whole lot of shading, which doesn't make the artifacting as bad as it could be with pixel art. There also comes a point where you can't be consumed by perfectionism. Most of your audience will appreciate the mere effort put into it itself, and if anyone wants to be That Guy and take issue with it... gently caress 'em. That Guy sucks anyway. Yes, you're probably going to notice it all the time and it'll bug the hell out of you looking back on it, but the enjoyment that other people eke out of it is more important in the long run. It's good you're going through all of this ahead of time and getting the fundamentals down because trying to do this on the fly once the LP is rolling is a pain in the rear end, but I think you're getting close to  time now.
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Jul 21, 2021 07:47
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Yeah, the next step is to record for the test post.
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Jul 21, 2021 12:00
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Xerophyte posted:This is downscaling so the only integer option is 0  Maybe running it in a lower resolution from the start did the trick? I probably used 1280x800 or something similar.
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Jul 22, 2021 21:33
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The perfect aspect ratio is 420:69, if you’re not using that I’m sorry but your LP is a failure.
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Jul 22, 2021 21:40
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Pierzak posted:Is it really that bad? I remember trying out Chroma Squad and having it look much better w/r/t text scaling, and I'd definitely notice immediately if something was off  is that an integer number can't have fractions or decimals, so the only downscaling option that is actually an integer is 0.
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Jul 22, 2021 22:22
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Test post for a planned Anno 2070 LP. I'm intending to do this LP for absolute beginners, given how dense and opaque Anno games are, so I'm trying to be both completely informative and also a bit narrative.
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Jul 31, 2021 16:13
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It looks fine to me. Everything is pretty clearly explained and it wasn't too difficult to follow along and understand what you were doing. I'd say you're good to post! Also worth mentioning, and I'm sure you're well aware, if you want to get it archived, you should resize your images to 900px wide at maximum. If not, then no need to worry!
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Jul 31, 2021 17:52
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Because I've seen a few Let's Plays of MMOs pop up, I was curious if there's any guiding theme/recommendations on how to do them properly. I'm halfway tempted once I'm done with my Empire Earth LP to do a Let's Ironman run of the free content of Runescape (the modern version, not old school), but I'm a little scared off by the notion of making grinding updates interesting after a certain point. Though there will certainly be a bunch of swapping between the grinding, accomplishing various milestones, and doing quests. Can it be done, or have people focused only on heavily story-focused MMOs precisely to avoid this problem?
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Aug 5, 2021 20:32
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Jossar posted:Because I've seen a few Let's Plays of MMOs pop up, I was curious if there's any guiding theme/recommendations on how to do them properly. I'm halfway tempted once I'm done with my Empire Earth LP to do a Let's Ironman run of the free content of Runescape (the modern version, not old school), but I'm a little scared off by the notion of making grinding updates interesting after a certain point. Though there will certainly be a bunch of swapping between the grinding, accomplishing various milestones, and doing quests. Can it be done, or have people focused only on heavily story-focused MMOs precisely to avoid this problem? As a viewer, I don't really need to see you killing 47 slimes; just do one pre-grind screenshot of your character stats, one pic of the area where you're doing your grind, maybe a couple images of you killing a slime, then a short written description where you say "okay, now imagine that 46 more times" and jump straight to your end-of-grind screenshot of the character stats showing off where you stopped your grind.
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Aug 5, 2021 20:51
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That's fair. The only thing is that the grinding is fairly core to the experience, but I suppose I just didn't take into account that I've been doing that sort of thing all along in my other screenshot LPs. Something to consider, thanks!
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Aug 5, 2021 20:58
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Jossar posted:That's fair. The only thing is that the grinding is fairly core to the experience, but I suppose I just didn't take into account that I've been doing that sort of thing all along in my other screenshot LPs. Something to consider, thanks! Grinding being core to an experience is a big reason why people like screenshot LPs/edited videos - so they don't have to sit through that themselves. A good rule of thumb is if you wouldn't want to read/watch an update of X, why would someone else who isn't as emotionally invested as you are?
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Aug 5, 2021 21:58
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Speaking as someone doing one of those aforementioned story-heavy MMO LPs, I just abstract away grinding because it's not worth showing at all in the case of Final Fantasy 14. But if I wanted to show that off, I'd probably just drop 3-5 screenshots showing the process by which I had been doing grinding. In my experience, that's just enough to communicate the idea of what you've been doing while not actually making the audience go through the 8 hours you spent doing it off-camera.
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Aug 5, 2021 22:54
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Jossar posted:That's fair. The only thing is that the grinding is fairly core to the experience, but I suppose I just didn't take into account that I've been doing that sort of thing all along in my other screenshot LPs. Something to consider, thanks!
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Aug 8, 2021 11:15
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Jossar posted:That's fair. The only thing is that the grinding is fairly core to the experience, but I suppose I just didn't take into account that I've been doing that sort of thing all along in my other screenshot LPs. Something to consider, thanks! Having lived through the heydays of both 04-07 RS and modern RS, I think it's safe to say that most people don't care about how you grind outside of a line or two unless it's a very interesting way to grind.
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Aug 9, 2021 03:35
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watching someone mine 6400 silver ore is hella boring, seeing a few screenshots with the explanation text "i've mined 6400 silver ore, out of my goal of 10k, so that i can craft those into tiaras, because that's the most efficient way of training my crafting high enough to make a special amulet, because that amulet will make it more efficient to train my ranged level" is much better (my brother plays hardcore ironman os runescape and i hear his tales)
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Aug 9, 2021 04:05
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Yeah, at best really monotonous or long methods should just have a footnote dictating what was done. Unless the method itself is interesting or has a ton of high effort involved, there's no need to go into all of it. Especially since grinding can take several hours or several days depending on the method and goal you want to reach. Especially OSRS Runecrafting. 
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Aug 9, 2021 06:35
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Araxxor posted:Yeah, at best really monotonous or long methods should just have a footnote dictating what was done. I feel attacked.
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Aug 9, 2021 07:36
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TBF, "I got Barrett and Cloud to level 99 in the first reactor" is at least one level beyond ordinary grinding.
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Aug 10, 2021 14:03
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Didn't some gaming news outlet write an article on that? It must have been a painful experience to grind this hard.
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Aug 10, 2021 14:17
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Some Youtuber named Cyber's Hell or something made a video about it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfnQcFNCp4 People should really check this guy out, I feel like he's underappreciated here.
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Aug 10, 2021 16:55
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IGgy IGsen posted:Didn't some gaming news outlet write an article on that? Cybershell did a pretty entertaining breakdown of it: https://youtu.be/MBfnQcFNCp4
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Aug 10, 2021 17:33
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life_source posted:Some Youtuber named Cyber's Hell or something made a video about it too. Thanks, I just finished watching it. Was a good time. Sally posted:Cybershell did a pretty entertaining breakdown of it: https://youtu.be/MBfnQcFNCp4 Thanks, I'm watching it again now.
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Aug 10, 2021 17:38
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IGgy IGsen posted:Didn't some gaming news outlet write an article on that? Both The Verge and Kotaku covered it, yes. So between this and Detroit: Become Human, both Circl Siblings are Video Game Famous.
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Aug 10, 2021 22:49
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Hey guys, it's test post time! I'm pretty much done working out the fiddly bits for a Library of Ruina LP, but it's always a good idea to put up the test stuff to make sure there's nothing obvious that I've missed or any good ideas for how to do things better-it's a very different game than my last LP so I'm in uncharted territory here. Opening Post Update 1
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Aug 20, 2021 11:16
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This isn't an interest check, more of a rule check I guess? So there's a huge BotW mod overhaul, that adds crafting, new skills, removes the regen from master mode, adds new tamable horses and quests, plus survival elements like Hunger and what not. I want to show it off. It's impossible to install without pirating it, there's no other way to do it. Am I allowed to let's play this for the forums?
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Aug 28, 2021 02:24
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People have LP'd romhacks countless times, I don't see an issue
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Aug 28, 2021 02:26
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ROM Hacks are fine. I'll grant that mods of console games from within the current generation are a little novel here but I'm certainly not going to object.
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Aug 28, 2021 02:32
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It's been a good, long while since I I realize the starting post is a bit bare, but it's going to grow in time with content as the thread grows: https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=159462 First post: https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=159463 That look good? Pictures are a good size? Writing isn't too abjectly horrible?
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Aug 28, 2021 11:26
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- banner pic is really big yo - other pics are a good size on my screen - it's hard to read any bits of the UI that are on the yellowing paper background. i don't know of any way to improve this - writing seems fine
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Aug 28, 2021 19:01
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Hey a quick question for everybody here... Since Clyp has now also removed the free tier (well, they did it some months ago but I only found out recently), what is the go to place for uploading of short audio clips these days? Or do you just upload it on Youtube with a static background image or something?
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Aug 29, 2021 11:37
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LPix allows music as long as it's under the 2MB limit, otherwise your best bet is probably YouTube afaik.
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Aug 29, 2021 11:46
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