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Thread: How about our own personal in-game photographs?

JakinIrali
Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:29 am
#1
No, I don't mean being able to takesomething with your webcam post it somewhere in the game.. censorship people would have a field day with the can of worms that would open up from that. But imagine this..


An in-game camera item that allowed us to take a screenshot, but instead of it getting saved to the harddrive, it gets uploaded to the game server and becomes a painting item that we could place in a structure?


So a disgusting amount of diskspace doesn't get used up overnight, players would have something like lots limiting the number of photos that could be taken (higher rez or bigger paintings would use more lots). If you want a new pic, you'd have to drop one of your old ones.


This way you could have a group picture of their guild, or a 'vacation' pic of yourself standing at the crater rim of the volcano on Lok, or if you're just not happy with the selection of paintings available in the game, go into space and grab a shot of that really cool nebula with the Endor moon behind it.



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GrafvonSoden
Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:52 am
#2
I love this idea
JediArchon
Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:56 am
#3
Great idea, but I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing it implemented anytime in the next year.



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player2005
Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:46 am
#4
If it makes any sense what-so-ever forget about it, the devs won't put it in.
NadaZilch
Tue Nov 16, 2004 4:36 pm
#5
Lovely Idea



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Hillslayer
Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:06 pm
#6
Serverload and bandwidth will probably be what they cite.



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SharellT
Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:40 pm
#7
I'd like some kind of "Artist" profession, that could do stuff like this. Naturally, to counterbalance the bandwith of having people uploading their custom paintings/photos to the server, and having them become in-game objects would be quite high[perhaps you have to talk to an art dealer to get them made?]...

Love this idea. Would love to see it. Get a nice painting of a Jedi, or an A-wing, to hang up in my house[or my nova courier!]



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JakinIrali
Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:08 am
#8
And I'm sure they appreciate your very constructive criticism.



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JakinIrali
Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:57 am
#9




Hillslayer wrote:

Serverload and bandwidth will probably be what they cite.




The paintings already in-game are VERY low quality jpg but they look ok as long as you're not zoomed all the way in on them. And there's a pretty big spike in data transfer everytime someone enters a house anyway, do you think it'd cripple the servers that much?



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Skuzz
Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:34 am
#10
I love this idea. In fact, i have been crusading for it since the original beta of SWG. So i support anyones attempt to push this sort of addition to the game! 8)

My original concept was as follows...
Architects could make 3 size picture frames (S,M,L), and these could be made vertical or horizontal and would have a few color options perhaps. A player would activate the frame from their inventory using radial and the next screenshot the took sent a low-res version to the frame instead. [This way players couldnt use jpegs and such from their harddrive that they tricked the game into thinking was a screenshot because the frame intercepts the screenshot before its saved in your SWG program folder.]

- It could be interesting if only architects could use the frames as it would make a cool artist comunity with photographers for hire. =) 





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JakinIrali
Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:23 am
#11
I like your idea for making the frame item double as image capture device. That'd give an extra edge to crafters especially if a frame could only capture an image once. If you wanted a new pic, you'd have to buy a new blank frame.


I think you're forgetting though that we'd need to limit how many pics each player can have to keep the servers from getting terribly overloaded with this. If you had 'photographers' capturing images and then selling them, we'd need a near infinite amount of disk space for the server to contain it all.



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JoleneArcher
Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:28 am
#12
Or they could start a "contest" where players can send in screenshots and the winners become a painting ingame.



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JakinIrali
Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:41 am
#13

Heh, that'd be pretty cool too. Actually come to think of it, I think it deserves it's own thread. This is a really good idea and could apply to a lot more than just pictures.


EDIT -a new design contest thread is located here..



Message Edited by JakinIrali on 11-17-2004 08:57 AM

Message Edited by JakinIrali on 11-17-2004 08:58 AM



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