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Queen of Hell (Warframe)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection/post-processing

I hope all my fellow Tenno have had a harrowing Naberus. Until next year...

#warframe #virtual photography #warframe captura #naberus

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BEETLE POWER!! (Warframe)

In-game photo mode (Captura)

Shader injection/post-processing

Waaaaaay too long playing this game in order to have reached MR30 and have the True Master emote to use here in the first place

I'm actually LR2, so it's even worse than making it to just MR30...

This is a bit full-circle, moreover; I picked up Warframe originally because way back in 2016, someone sent an query to this very blog asking whether I'd consider taking some shots in Warframe... which at the time, I had not played. So I picked it up to toy with Captura...

#warframe #warframe captura #virtual photography

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Fangs in the Night (Warframe)

In-game photo mode (Captura)

Shader injection/post-processing

A lot of patience to wait for my kavat here to actually wander into the position I wanted him in

Vlad, I swear, I'll let you eat the next Grineer who shoots at you if you'll just face this direction to get the lighting right...

#warframe #warframe captura #virtual photography

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Crystal Grove (Warframe)

In-game photo mode (Captura)

Shader injection/post-processing

A hell of a lot of patience to get Citrine's crystal positioned on top of the Silver Grove altar stones

No seriously it took so damn long to get the crystal lined up. I was about ready to cry.

#warframe #warframe captura #virtual photography

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Nyx (Warframe)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection/post-processing

#warframe #warframe captura #virtual photography

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Street Samurai (Final Fantasy XIV)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection/post-processing

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #virtual photography

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Sage's Strike (Final Fantasy XIV)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection/post-processing

This is the as-of-posting final version of my comic-book shader preset. It's still not perfect -- you have to get kind of precise in the lighting -- but I am definitely happy with the result overall.

Much like the previous shot, it relies heavily on LayerCake shenanigans; in this case, it generates only the outlines for Khit in pure black and white, then copies it (treating white as transparent, another option in LayerCake), then does flat-shading of colors, then pastes the outlines back atop the solid colors.

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #virtual photography

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Reach Out (Final Fantasy XIV)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection/post-processing (with so much custom shader logic, you guys)

The process here is literally a shader that copies the scene into a temporary buffer, one that does outlines in white, one that copies the outlines in white into a temporary buffer, one that covers the screen in a gradient, one that pastes the outlines in white back in, one that copies the scene into a temporary buffer only to a certain depth (thus getting only Khit's gradient-and-outline figure), one that pastes the original scene back into place, my painting shader to turn the whole scene into the painting style, one that stomps a mask over it to make the 'paint swoosh', and then one that pastes the gradient-and-outline image of Khit back atop it to finish.

I am definitely getting some mileage out of the "LayerCake" shader I wrote that handles all those copy-and-paste operations...

Would this have been easier in Photoshop? Almost certainly. But I do try to stick to my general rule of only posting things here I've done entirely in-game, with only ReShade-style post-processing.

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #virtual photography

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Set a Course (Starfield)

In-game photo mode

#starfield #virtual photography

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A Girl and Her Ship (Starfield)

In-game photo mode.

#starfield #virtual photography

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Flyby (Starfield)

In-game photo mode.

#starfield #virtual photography

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Distant Hills (Starfield)

In-game photo mode.

#starfield #vritual photography

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Fresh Snow (Starfield)

In-game photo mode

#starfield #virtual photography

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In a Dark Reflection (Final Fantasy XIV)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection/post-processing

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #virtual photography

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Light the Way - Alternative Version (Final Fantasy XIV)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection and post-processing

In the spirit of FFXIV's MSQ-chapter-ending poems: "Though dark obscures the path from sight, a heart-felt hope may yet bring light."

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #virtual photography

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Contemplative (Final Fantasy XIV)

In-game photo mode

Shader injection/post-processing

Someday I'll stop overusing my painting shader.

It won't be today. Or probably any time soon.

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #virtual photography

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Run (Warframe)

In-game photo mode (Captura)

Shader injection/post-processing

An old one that I still like, even if I've long since moved Paksara here away from that hairstyle.

Last Warframe one I have pre-queued for a bit -- I've got some FFXIV and Starfield in the queue -- but my Tennotober entries for this month will be over in the main Tennotober Captura thread on the official forums. I will throw a few of the best from the month onto the queue later, though.

#warframe #warframe captura #virtual photography #warframe spoilers #sort of