poster sized screenshots

[Raffer]

Hello Everybody. You can set Oblivion to window mode and run it at almost any resolution you want by adjusting the iSize parameters in the .ini. With that, you can make huge screenshots, larger than your screen size, without a multi-screen setup.

 

Now the problem is that you will only see that part of the game window that is on your screen, which will always be the upper left. This hides essential buttons and it is impossible to see what your screenshot will be. Is it possible to move the viewing area inside the game window?

[Rennn]

I don't know, but I thought of a potential workaround.

You could play at your standard resolution and look for something to take a screenshot of. Then, when you find it, you could save the game exactly from the position you want the screenshot taken. For example, if I wanted a giant picture of flowers, I would look at the flowers at a normal resolution and then save and quit. Then, I would go into the .ini and change the resolution to something huge. I would next reload the game exactly where I left off and immediately take a screenshot. Hopefully that would allow you to set up screens in a normal resolution and then actually take the screenshot in a massive resolution.

 

I don't know if it'll work, but it may be something to try. Good luck.

[Raffer]

It works in first person view. Thanks.

 

Now I try to make pictures of my player character which requires 3rd person view. I set up everything and when I restart the game all free cam settings will be reset to standard position behind the character. This does not work so I create a copy of my player character, place and pose it and use my actual player character as camera in first person view. Then I restart and make the shot. I guess I will not do many of these, the procedure is really complicated.

 

There is one thing left, I need my character's copy to draw the sword. Is it possible with the console? If I let her attack something to draw it, then pose and freeze her with the console the pose will not apply when I restart the game and upon unfreezing to change the pose she will move and attack.

[Caithe]

Have you tried with pose mods?

Many of them have attack pose. You can set this character into a pose, save and quit. and when you're back in, they still should be in that same pose.

 

I suggest Faivon pose books to find the poses you want more easily. It save so much time.

There's a huge list of all pose mods used on the page too, to help finding them. http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=40296

[Raffer]

I use pose mods. It works now. It seems that I have to load the game and then reload it again to make the pose apply. Edited March 3, 2012 by Raffer