Sheesh.....been playing all this time and never knew that. Color my face red 
Okay, tried this in world and while you can get a partial front picture you can't really zoom out for a full body shot. It would be nice if we were able to move the camera around a bit more without it resetting.
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How do you mean? I get full body shots that way all the time (for reference pieces.) You can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel - if you get in too *close* (basically to first person) it'll reset, yes.|
Originally Posted by Rubyred
Okay, tried this in world and while you can get a partial front picture you can't really zoom out for a full body shot. It would be nice if we were able to move the camera around a bit more without it resetting.
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You're looking for a shot like this, right?
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What Rubyred is describing is a legitimate problem, actually. The in-game camera's centre of rotation is at around our character's shoulders, and that's somewhat below screen centre. What this means is that you can only zoom up to a certain level before you begin cutting the legs off the screenshot, with two-thirds of the screen left with dead air background. It works somewhat well if you run at a very high resolution like I do (and I suspect you do). At 1920x1080, even a small section of the screen can easily make for a 400x600 screenshot. But if you run at, say, 1280x1024 or, God help you, 1024x768, you just don't have the resolution to make anything presentable out of such a small area of the screen.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
How do you mean? I get full body shots that way all the time (for reference pieces.) You can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel - if you get in too *close* (basically to first person) it'll reset, yes.
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If I take a screenshot from the editor. I my character can fill a good 9/10 of the screen, which is large enough to make for a good screenshot even at low resolution, but I can't do that in-game, because there's no way to get the shoulders above mid-screen, so at most you're taking screenshots of half your resolution vertical. Less if you want a shot that's not angled down.
I'm not in favour of moving the camera completely freely like in, say, Sexy Beach 3, as that would cause a number of problems, but I DO want to have the ability to focus the camera lower down on my character's body. If I could focus on the abdomen or the pelvis, then I can take a full-body screenshot at around my full resolution vertical right out of the game, which means I can pick a location, use powers, stage a scene and so forth, all things I can't do in the editor.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I was having trouble getting the full view because my mouse doesn't have a middle button, just the wheel, and when I'd try to zoom in to change the angle or view I'd wind up looking at my back again. Switched to a newer mouse and that did help the problem.
What Samuel described is what I meant. The head/shoulders area of the toon is always in the center and you can't change that focus. I would like to see a separate option for photography that will allow us to change the point of focus.
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You should be able to click the mouse wheel on your mouse like a middle mouse button. Unless you have a particularly eccentric mouse, this has been an option on every single wheeled mouse that I've ever used. It's kind of awkward if you're not used to it since you're pressing something which is also designed to turn, but you want to press it without turning it, but it should work.|
Originally Posted by Rubyred
I was having trouble getting the full view because my mouse doesn't have a middle button, just the wheel, and when I'd try to zoom in to change the angle or view I'd wind up looking at my back again. Switched to a newer mouse and that did help the problem.
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Speaking of which, I feel sorry for Apple people and their one-button mouse setup. Well, it was at one point
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I'd love to see an option that would allow us to take a front view snapshot of our toons in-game without having to be in combat or having someone else snap it for us. The character select and tailor screens are the only way now and are pretty limiting.