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City of Landscapes
« on: December 13, 2012, 04:53:27 AM »
Greetings! I've been mostly lurking around here, but since the game's closure, I've been digging through all my screenshots. I've shared a few on my blog and on twitter, so I thought I would post about them here as well.

As a photographer IRL, one of my biggest regrets is not taking more screenshots of all the amazing sights in the game. But with all the cool stuff I'm seeing now - like the news about the costume creator, the DEMOlition tool, etc., etc., I'm looking forward to the possibility of revisiting some of those places. (thanks to all involved for their hard work!)

Anyway.. Here's a link to my blog. Feel free to download any you like.. Enjoy!

Also, please post your own scenic shots! I'd love to add more to my rotation of desktop wallpapers! :)


Silhouettes in the Shadow Shard


The Council Base in Striga


The Golden Giza lit up at night
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2012, 04:55:18 AM »
Hullo, Giza, hullo!

Those are nice shots.
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2012, 05:02:31 AM »
Wow, that's good stuff! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2012, 06:12:18 AM »
Here are a couple of my faves *sigh*......want to go back there



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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2012, 10:51:29 AM »
FYI, if you have JPEG screenshots produced by the client, try to upload them without getting resized or otherwise modified. The client embeds exact map name and coordinates into them.

I'll have time tomorrow to put together a small tool for viewing that information, so hold on to your screenshots! :)
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2012, 11:08:04 AM »
What bums me out most is when I see those pictures I know EXACTLY where they all are.  I wouldn't be able to do that, look at a random picture and know where it was taken, in the very small town I've lived in for 25 years.  I use to joke that I could give better direction of how to get somewhere in Paragon City than in real life.
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2012, 04:27:11 AM »
I have a boatload of landscapes, I'm actually going to put them together into zip files eventually for people to use as they would like. :)



















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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2012, 04:43:38 AM »
those are some beautiful shots!
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« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2012, 05:43:17 AM »
Indeed. Some really nice grabs!
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2012, 05:58:30 AM »
Wow, awesome shots, healix and Zekiran! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2012, 06:07:26 AM »
Quote from: The Fifth Horseman on December 13, 2012, 10:51:29 AM
FYI, if you have JPEG screenshots produced by the client, try to upload them without getting resized or otherwise modified. The client embeds exact map name and coordinates into them.

I'll have time tomorrow to put together a small tool for viewing that information, so hold on to your screenshots! :)

Yup! I actually dumped all my screenshots into my photo management tool (Apple Aperture for the curious), which shows all the metadata stored in them. I was also able to do some editing on them like normal photos (white balance, colour tweaks, etc.)

Quote from: FatherXmas on December 13, 2012, 11:08:04 AM
What bums me out most is when I see those pictures I know EXACTLY where they all are.  I wouldn't be able to do that, look at a random picture and know where it was taken, in the very small town I've lived in for 25 years.  I use to joke that I could give better direction of how to get somewhere in Paragon City than in real life.

I'm totally the same way. I always discover new places in my own home town every time I join a local photowalk. :P
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2012, 06:37:40 AM »
A friend of mine is working on panoramas of every zone, except certain ones like the original Atlas Park. He even used that little 'exploit' go to dead zones to do them, like old Faultline and Rikti Crash Site.
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2012, 06:11:38 AM »

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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2012, 06:31:06 AM »
Quote from: Perfidus
A friend of mine is working on panoramas of every zone, except certain ones like the original Atlas Park. He even used that little 'exploit' go to dead zones to do them, like old Faultline and Rikti Crash Site.

I'm going to post a few of these. I'm saying now to reiterate, these are -not- mine. I had nothing to do with them. They were made by an old friend of mine, one of the first friends I ever made on Virtue in early 2007. His global was @Tomanton.

First Ward: http://i.imgur.com/2TtbJ.jpg
Port Oakes: http://i.imgur.com/oLXNk.jpg
Crey's Folly: http://i.imgur.com/oNcjO.jpg
Kings Row: http://i.imgur.com/rBUy4.jpg
Sewer Network: http://i.imgur.com/0ej2n.jpg

If I messed up zone names, feel free to correct. I'm quite certain I got them right. Tomanton didn't say which zones were which.


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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2012, 06:36:14 AM »
Awesome stuff!  <downloads ALL the landscapes>
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2012, 06:38:26 AM »
Quote from: Perfidus on December 20, 2012, 06:31:06 AM
I'm going to post a few of these. I'm saying now to reiterate, these are -not- mine. I had nothing to do with them. They were made by an old friend of mine, one of the first friends I ever made on Virtue in early 2007. His global was @Tomanton.

First Ward: http://i.imgur.com/2TtbJ.jpg
Port Oakes: http://i.imgur.com/oLXNk.jpg
Crey's Folly: http://i.imgur.com/oNcjO.jpg
Kings Row: http://i.imgur.com/rBUy4.jpg
Sewer Network: http://i.imgur.com/0ej2n.jpg

If I messed up zone names, feel free to correct. I'm quite certain I got them right. Tomanton didn't say which zones were which.


ZOMG those are freaking awesome!! Love the panorama's, unique to say the least! Thank you all for sharing!
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2012, 01:31:27 PM »


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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2012, 06:25:02 PM »
Healix posted a modern-day submarine in Cimerora, so I just had to post this one...


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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2012, 06:42:56 PM »
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Re: City of Landscapes
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2012, 10:38:39 PM »
Here's something to grab map name and coordinates for a given client-made  jpg screenshot:
http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1KHCEPQK/CoH_ShotTags.rar_links
Obvious beta, lacks a proper GUI - hope you can bear file selection dialogs and message boxes. :p
Camera PYR is not shown, since it's not stored in the screenshot.
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