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== Basics == | == Basics == | ||
What separates good pictures from bad pictures? | What separates good pictures from bad pictures? | ||
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The best screenshots are technically correct, the lighting and colors are right, and the composition is good. | The best screenshots are technically correct, the lighting and colors are right, and the composition is good. | ||
Explaining how to compose a picture is difficult, so instead I suggest you to read tutorials and explanations given on many websites on the web like this one: | Explaining how to compose a picture is difficult, so instead I suggest you to read tutorials and explanations given on many websites on the web like this one: {{wikipedia|Composition (visual arts)}}. | ||
== Quality == | == Quality == | ||
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Anders Gidenstam made a nice nasal script to move the tower whenever you control-click on the ground. | Anders Gidenstam made a nice nasal script to move the tower whenever you control-click on the ground. | ||
You can find it [http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/place_tower.xml here]. Copy the code between the <code><PropertyList></code>-tags and put in somewhere in your <code>preferences.xml</code> . Now, when you ''Ctrl + left click'' somewhere on the ground, you can set the position of the tower view. The view is still about 30 feet above ground level; assuming you want to stand at eye-level, you can change the line | You can find it [http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/place_tower.xml here]. Copy the code between the <code><PropertyList></code>-tags and put in somewhere in your <code>preferences.xml</code> . Now, when you ''{{Key press|Ctrl}} + left click'' somewhere on the ground, you can set the position of the tower view. The view is still about 30 feet above ground level; assuming you want to stand at eye-level, you can change the line | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="nasal"> | <syntaxhighlight lang="nasal"> | ||
setprop(tower ~ "/altitude-ft", 30 + (click_pos.alt() * M2FT)); | setprop(tower ~ "/altitude-ft", 30 + (click_pos.alt() * M2FT)); | ||
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[[File:C172p-bodensee-panorama.jpg|thumb|600px|Panorama image stitched with 23 images inside the C172P cockpit while flying above Lake Constance (Bodensee)]] | [[File:C172p-bodensee-panorama.jpg|thumb|600px|Panorama image stitched with 23 images inside the C172P cockpit while flying above Lake Constance (Bodensee)]] | ||
A | A {{wikipedia|Panorama}} is a wide-angle view. With this, you can show large areas of the scenery or flightdecks. | ||
For this, use the cockpit, passenger, or tower view, then position the virtual camera at the point you want. Pause the sim and pan the virtual camera all the way around, saving many screenshots so they cover the entire visible area. | For this, use the cockpit, passenger, or tower view, then position the virtual camera at the point you want. Pause the sim and pan the virtual camera all the way around, saving many screenshots so they cover the entire visible area. | ||
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No software yet? Use Google; there are several freeware programs outside. A common choice is [http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]; it's free and open source, cross-platform and used by many professional photographers. | No software yet? Use Google; there are several freeware programs outside. A common choice is [http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]; it's free and open source, cross-platform and used by many professional photographers. | ||
If you want to make full spherical panorama take a look at this [ | If you want to make full spherical panorama take a look at this [[Howto: Make full spherical panorama|tutorial]]. | ||
== Field of View (FoV) == | == Field of View (FoV) == | ||
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== Conclusion == | == Conclusion == | ||
When keeping this all in mind, you can make some stunning pictures. Try and play with as much you can, look at real images to get hints or try to copy a real life image in FlightGear. All this will help you to take good pictures! | When keeping this all in mind, you can make some stunning pictures. Try and play with as much you can, look at real images to get hints or try to copy a real life image in FlightGear. All this will help you to take good pictures! | ||
== User experiences == | |||
[[File:Shuttle launch at sunrise.jpg|thumb|250px|Space Shuttle launch]] | |||
<b>Thorsten Renk</b> | |||
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|1= One of my favourite Shuttle shots: I took about an hour. I set up a good thirty different cloud configurations on the pad and then used the view offsets to anticipate how they'd look when I punch through the cloud deck. When I had one I liked, I played with time and environment settings to adjust the light. Then I launched and paused FG going through the cloud deck and used the view offsets for five minutes to find the one angle which I really liked. Then I repeated the whole exercise two more times and took the best shot out of those. | |||
|2= {{cite web | |||
| url = http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=28162&start=225#p274091 | |||
| title = <nowiki>[FlightGear Forum] Re: FG Promotional Video</nowiki> | |||
| author = <nowiki>Thorsten Renk</nowiki> | |||
| date = Jan 26th, 2016 | |||
| added = Feb 14th, 2016 | |||
| script_version = 0.23 | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
== Related content == | |||
=== Wiki === | |||
* [[:Category:Screenshot of the month]] | |||
=== Forum === | |||
* {{forum link|f=19|title=Media}} - Subforum with many great screenshots. | |||
* {{forum link|type=search|f=19|keywords=(screenshot+month{{!}}SOTM)|text=Search for Screenshot of the month (SOTM)}} | |||
[[Category:Howto|Make nice screenshots]] | [[Category:Howto|Make nice screenshots]] | ||
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