Screenshots Needed

[Zelknolf]

As the topic says, tech needs some screenshots for one of its projects for ALFA v1.84.

There are some standards for these shots, in order for them to be technically useful and to live up to their purpose:
1) They need to represent their subject.
2) They can't have someone or something else stealing the spotlight.
3) They must be at least 1600 x 800. I won't stretch a smaller image, because it'll look awful; I'll happily crop a bigger one, though.
4) Color quality needs to be at least 24 bit; I won't use a low-color one, but I'm perfectly happy to dial back from 32.
5) The sceenshots should come from actual gameplay; toolset screenshots tend to go wonky in a few ways that will make it doubleplus ungood in application.
6) They can't have frames or framelike embellishments (though if you were to use some photowitchery to remove a character from a place-specific screenshot or tweak its focus/ lighting/ whatnot to try to get the locale's "feel," that's totally cool); we're going to use these in a context where it would be a frame inside a frame inside a frame (inside a window) if you did that, and a portrait of Xzibit becomes mandatory at that point.
7) Artsy and/or fartsy strategies are welcome; these don't need to be "functional," and a viewer need not be able to recognize specific details beyond being able to, overall, identify the location. If we get competing screenshots, we'll use the one that's better at capturing the "essence" of the location (not that I expect this to happen frequently).

The first wave of these are looking for shots to represent ALFA's build of:
1) Silverymoon (TSM)
2) Citadel Felbarr (TSM)
3) High Hold (TSM)
4) Rivermoot (TSM)
5) Baldur's Gate (BG)
6) Beregost (BG)
7) Nashkel (BG)
Caer Calidyrr (MS)
9) Caer Corwell (MS)
10) Skaug (MS)
11) The Dungeon of the Ruins (TSM)
12) The Lady's College (TSM)
<this list will surely expand in coming days>

Also, folks who've been testing or been familiar with WHL: if you know of good locales that would make a sound "teaser" for the server, and would showcase the unique and interesting things about it, I would also be looking for a few of those.

[CloudDancing]

Here we go, you might have to photoshop Trapper out.

6) Beregost (BG)



7) Nashkel (BG)







8. Caer Calidyrr (MS)






9) Caer Corwell (MS) (Lowhill is part of Cantrev Corwell offically)




10) Skaug (MS)

[NESchampion]

The first wave of these are looking for shots to represent ALFA's build of:

Awwww hell yeah, time to look through my screenshots. These might need some cropping to remove Olaf but the resolution should allow for a bit of that, as well as touching up light levels etc.; if not I can definitely aim to get some scenic screenshots with my PC hiding and lying down behind things to be out of field.

1) Silverymoon (TSM)

2) Citadel Felbarr (TSM)

3) High Hold (TSM)

4) Rivermoot (TSM)

I have some from other servers as well, but these ones stood out the most. While the one ceremony in TSM does highlight an event, it's also an important essence of the city.

[Zelknolf]

If the event is significant to ALFA canon and known widely-enough that it would be a feasible target for a casting of Legend Lore, I'd be interested in the details; the ceremony might merit a screenshot and a blurb in its own right.

[NESchampion]

If the event is significant to ALFA canon and known widely-enough that it would be a feasible target for a casting of Legend Lore, I'd be interested in the details; the ceremony might merit a screenshot and a blurb in its own right.

I believe that particular ceremony was to bestow an honorific title upon Alyra for her work in the Underdark for Silverymoon. She became Lady Sir Alyra Ashedown that night. I'm sure someone more involved could outline a better synopsis of the events and people involved, but I do know both Taern 'Thunderspells' Hornblade and Lady Alustriel were there; I don't remember if King Emerus Warcrown was there or not.

[Zelknolf]

I believe that particular ceremony was to bestow an honorific title upon Alyra for her work in the Underdark for Silverymoon. She became Lady Sir Alyra Ashedown that night. I'm sure someone more involved could outline a better synopsis of the events and people involved, but I do know both Taern 'Thunderspells' Hornblade and Lady Alustriel were there; I don't remember if King Emerus Warcrown was there or not.

Alyra herself is one of them folks with adventures and events to make her well-known (along with everyone in that level 10+ group), with "She's been knighted, y'know" likely one of the things you'd hear; I'm working with our HDMs on figuring out how to handle notable PCs as they relate to this project, so I'm probably gonna make that screenshot warm a bench until we get that all hashed out and settled.



Many thanks for the other screenies, NES and Cloud.

[CloudDancing]

If the event is significant to ALFA canon and known widely-enough that it would be a feasible target for a casting of Legend Lore, I'd be interested in the details; the ceremony might merit a screenshot and a blurb in its own right.

I believe that particular ceremony was to bestow an honorific title upon Alyra for her work in the Underdark for Silverymoon. She became Lady Sir Alyra Ashedown that night. I'm sure someone more involved could outline a better synopsis of the events and people involved, but I do know both Taern 'Thunderspells' Hornblade and Lady Alustriel were there; I don't remember if King Emerus Warcrown was there or not.

Lady A (played by me) and Taran Horneblade (played by Swift) were present to make her Knight Errant. This is from the Dm vantatge:




and one good one of the Corwell Druid Moonwell Circle



and from the court of the High Queen in MS: