Screenshot Thread

[thesmoosh]

Naval invasion of Syracuse

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using gemfx and the usual graphics mods, cropped because I forgot I had blur on.

[Dead*Man*Wilson]

Very nice stuff, smoosh. Very nice indeed.

[asher237]

loving the narratives you guys got going on recently.

[thesmoosh]

Aredeai ally decides to cross a river defended by Epirus

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my reinforcements attack from the rear to salvage the situation

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Carthage isn't too happy about my expansion into Sicily and declares war.

Stack after stack of invading armies are thinning my defenders

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manage to hold on for now

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raiding and instability lead to rebellion

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last stand of the Syracusian rebels

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And here's a sneak peak of a Parthia album from my last playthrough.

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[Jake Armitage]

god, 1st and 6th...

[Dead*Man*Wilson]

Indeed!

Quick, somebody get this guy's preset

[Jake Armitage]

my pc preset is: "hey, put low on everything, yes also there, I noticed you changed it, or I'll reset myself"

[♔Greek Strategos♔]

Indeed!

Quick, somebody get this guy's preset

I thought we already had it

@thesmoosh
Excellent pics buddy
Would you be so kind to send me your cfg file and the submods you're using, so I could add them to the opening post ?

[Dead*Man*Wilson]

I meant the good brother, thesmoosh's preset

[~Seleukos.I.Nikator~]

thesmoosh, really nice pics, indeed! I want that preset, too!!!

my pc preset is: "hey, put low on everything, yes also there, I noticed you changed it, or I'll reset myself"

time to break that piggybank, Jake, and get yourself a new rig...

[♔Greek Strategos♔]

time to break that piggybank, Jake, and get yourself a new rig...

Jake is more Skroutzed than Bill Murrey

[Jake Armitage]

I love bill murray.
I've bought my pc one year and a half ago and it will be this way for next 3 at least, the last thing I thought about was a configuration for playing tbh

[♔Greek Strategos♔]

I love bill murray.

Jake you're a man after my own heart

[Commissar Caligula_]

The Picture of the Year 2018 and Game Picture of the Year 2018 competitions are finally here if you guys are interested.

[thesmoosh]

Hey guys, glad you liked the pics. I just recently upgraded to a 9900k so I can finally play with 30+ fps though it's still not smooth if I go for hd texture addons. I posted my list and presets a few months ago (shouldn't have changed too much) but here's the latest:

GemFX Preset
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Mv...BTwBWMt9T-OBgg

Launcher screenshot showing my active graphical addons (there's a few more down below but they're minor):

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Here's my data folder with all my mods, not all are enabled ofc:

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Most are from steam, except for DEI and vfextended (that one you have to manually change to a movie in PFM and make read only. I may have changed the numbers in it though I'm not 100% sure.

The absolute best graphics would be enabling all of celticus's HD textures (though I personally don't like some of the terrain visuals) and using something like cheat-engine to increase draw distance, fix night lighting etc but I don't even know if the guy who published those presets is still around.

For a performance setup I would just use nohdr, visual_effects and divide_et_gerula. Those three drastically improve the look of the game even without GEMFX in my opinion.

It can vary based on the map you get but I usually set brightness to 20 and gamma between 14-18.

I spent a long time in GEMFX before I got a preset that I felt was playable and looked decent, hopefully it'll feel the same for you guys.

[~Seleukos.I.Nikator~]

Thanks for an extensive feedback, thesmoosh! I'll definitely take a look at that preset.

[♔Greek Strategos♔]

@thesmooth
Than's buddy. I'll add it in the OP
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1) No HDR mod is no longer needed since CA fixed the Vanilla issues.
2) Cheat engine is not updated since a long time now, so it's not working anymore.
3) VFX extended could be quite taxing for midrange PCs, so users should test it carefully.

[thesmoosh]

@thesmooth
1) No HDR mod is no longer needed since CA fixed the Vanilla issues.
2) Cheat engine is not updated since a long time now, so it's not working anymore.
3) VFX extended could be quite taxing for midrange PCs, so users should test it carefully.

1. Nice!
2. I see. So how are people doing those night shots with torch light etc? Is that in the base game now?
3. Yeah in the screenshot I have both regular and extended versions, use the one that works best

Did I miss anything else that CA has done? I was busy with work the past few months and haven't been keeping up.

Also does anyone know a way to increase draw distance for vegetation?

EDIT: I tried playing without nohdr, it's still gives me a headache, CA's lighting is way too tacky.

[thesmoosh]

Here are a few more I took the other day

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and a closeup of that last shot

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[Alexander78]

@thesmoosh
It's really great. I'm very impressed with your screens.

Also does anyone know a way to increase draw distance for vegetation?

If I understand you correctly, then try this mod. In the description, Celticus writes that the detailization of vegetation (trees, grass) at medium and long range has been improved.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...64&searchtext=