how to freeze the surrounding actions for screenshots?

[carloud]

Good pm sirs

 

I've seen several pictures from different websites on baing able to take screenies while on 3rd on different angles

 

I've used the search function of the forum and it led me to a topic about screenshots while it certainly was very informative

 

I learned about tia,tm,tfc upon using the "tilde" or (~)

 

is it actually possible to take screenshots of your character with/wo companions fighting a monster for example using different angles?

 

I thought maybe there will be a command to freeze every movements and motion or something?

 

any help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance :biggrin:

[VictoriaG]

There's this method, I've used on XP/Vista:

 

Trollf's Holiday Recipe for freezing the time at will in Oblivion:

 

1. in the middle of action press ~ button to freeze the world around,

2. type tfc and press enter - that will release the camera later,

3. press SHIFT at least five times (very quick) - this action should minimize the game to taskbar and bring to front a little window with Sticky Keys message - press cancel in that window,

4. click the Oblivion's tab on the Windows taskbar to bring back the game to full screen mode,

5. press ~ button once or twice to turn off the console - (!) after the dissapearance of the console messages don't press this buttonanymore and don't press other buttons (except movement ones) or you'll get stuck (!),

6. fly around (using normal movement buttons and mouse) and make your screenies ^_^

7. if you want to end this mode press CTRL+ALT+DEL to minimize the game and to summon Windows Task Manager window,

8. in Task Manager window under the Applications tab click on Oblivion task twice to restore the game to full screen mode and to release the chains of frozen action - the game should return to normal...

 

NOTES:

- I don't know if that works on every PC,

- I don't know if that works on every Windows system,

- I don't know if the above procedure works exactly as described at any time.

- I know it works flawlessy on my machine. I have A64 3000+ / 1 GB RAM / 7600GT / WINXP SP2

 

The other way is to use the console command FOV ie. FOV 10 this will zoom in/out (default view being 90), unfortunately this doesn't hold in 3rd person (unlike Fallout) so to keep the frozen scene with no menus press escape to bring up the menu options (this freezes the action) then use console command tm to disable menus, this will leave you with a scene clear of hud/menus.

[carloud]

There's this method, I've used on XP/Vista:

 

Trollf's Holiday Recipe for freezing the time at will in Oblivion:

 

1. in the middle of action press ~ button to freeze the world around,

2. type tfc and press enter - that will release the camera later,

3. press SHIFT at least five times (very quick) - this action should minimize the game to taskbar and bring to front a little window with Sticky Keys message - press cancel in that window,

4. click the Oblivion's tab on the Windows taskbar to bring back the game to full screen mode,

5. press ~ button once or twice to turn off the console - (!) after the dissapearance of the console messages don't press this buttonanymore and don't press other buttons (except movement ones) or you'll get stuck (!),

6. fly around (using normal movement buttons and mouse) and make your screenies ^_^

7. if you want to end this mode press CTRL+ALT+DEL to minimize the game and to summon Windows Task Manager window,

8. in Task Manager window under the Applications tab click on Oblivion task twice to restore the game to full screen mode and to release the chains of frozen action - the game should return to normal...

 

NOTES:

- I don't know if that works on every PC,

- I don't know if that works on every Windows system,

- I don't know if the above procedure works exactly as described at any time.

- I know it works flawlessy on my machine. I have A64 3000+ / 1 GB RAM / 7600GT / WINXP SP2

 

The other way is to use the console command FOV ie. FOV 10 this will zoom in/out (default view being 90), unfortunately this doesn't hold in 3rd person (unlike Fallout) so to keep the frozen scene with no menus press escape to bring up the menu options (this freezes the action) then use console command tm to disable menus, this will leave you with a scene clear of hud/menus.

 

 

thanks for the fast reply dear sir

 

I will try this technique thank you very much this is big help :yes: