This is a continuation of my first thread here.

I'm trying to take a very high resolution picture of my level that I can use in another program to zoom in for greater detail (I plan to use the image to make a map). The problem is that I can only take screenshots that are as "deep", detail-wise, as my monitor's maximum resolution (1920 x 1200). I need to be able to get an image with more detail than this, at least twice as much, like something along the lines of 3840 x 2400, so that when I zoom in I will still have strong detail.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? I already tried forcing a higher resolution onto my project's window, which of course didn't work (I didn't really expect it too...). Help and suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks!

Anyone?

Maybe JCL could chime in with whether this is even possible with the engine?

you could create a view wich is 3840 * 2400
save the target bmap
use bmap_to_format
then bmap_save

then open a paint program and cut of the black pixels

Sounds like a promising idea! But given my lack of expertise on the matter, could you tell me how creating a view is different than setting screen resolution? Also, could you point me to some example code for that? I tried a few things already that wouldn't work for me, and I'm not entirely sure if it's because my project is still in c-script, or if I'm simply too ignorant on a few things coding-wise.

Thanks!

i did try to make a small demo
i did got the problem that view is only going to 1600 pixels
i dont know any other good solution so i am realy sorry

and i think it didnt work in c-script anyway

flits

Hey thanks for trying! I appreciate the effort in any case.

Have you tried to set the view arc to e.g. 30 and take some pictures.
This way you get something like a panorama photography which can be put together with programs like Ulead Cool 360.
Just an idea...

I did try that today, and I imported the pix into Deep Zoom Composer and tried to stitch them together, but the results were somewhat warped and horrible, lol

I just found two examples of games/engines out there that allow the user to take screenshots of a MUCH higher resolution that their monitors/graphics cards can even support (it's mostly done on the processor side, apparently):

Doom 3 high-rez screenshots

Unreal Tournament High-Rez screenshots

I'll repeat my question again in hopes that JCL will take notice and comment--is this possible with 3DGS? And if not, can it be a future feature?

Thanks...