Image quality follow up and S,HWC revisit
Nov. 5th, 2012 04:38 pmIt turns out the issue I mentioned with my images losing quality was related to Firefox, so it's no wonder that none of you were having the same issue with quality, and in all likelihood, my image looked just fine in your browser (for an in-game camera pic, anyway). The issue was with my new PC being 64-bit and Firefox not having a 64-bit version available yet. My images look fine in my image viewer and Photoshop, but everything looks terrible in Firefox. I've switched to using Internet Explorer (which is a shame because I love Firefox) and now things look as they should.
Thanks to the chat I had with skellington7d, I've also started playing in windowed mode and this has fixed my issues with Irfanview not taking in-game screencaps for me anymore (and I think that one was Windows 7 related). Thanks for the insight and nudge to try that, Skell. :) This leads me to the image below...
Johnny and Ophelia flirting, while Ripp nods in approval. :P
It's been a while since I visited these three at LFT, and this is in the original game I was playing while writing the story instead of my uberhood attempt to recreate it (which no longer exists). I went back to my backups and tested out the oldest one I had. There doesn't seem to be any issue with missing lots (and there shouldn't be - this was 7-8 backups and several years prior to that), and most story-related things are here. Some of the things I added later were just unnessarily adding to the clutter of the hood and further into the storyline than I needed to be (from playing ahead), leaving me with a game full of spoilers and chaos. This older game feels like a breath of fresh air. I can jump right in and play the story again, right where I left off.
On that note, I woke up on Saturday with a little scene in my head, featuring Tank, Frances, and Beau. It's one of those extras that doesn't necessarily fit into a chapter or gets added to one later as a scene if it fits. It's mostly just character-building stuff, a bit of fun, you know the drill. ;) I took a notebook to my yoga class and furously scribbled it down in the corner while waiting for class to start. And now, all I need is images, and my game is ready whenever I can grab a free hour to shoot them.
P.S. The Super Duper Hugs are also under control now. Thank you for all your help. :)