Anybody interested in game wallpapers?
 

First post, so I figured I'd bring at least something with me, here.

I've been searching everywhere for some panoramic wallpapers, something that would seamlessly wrap around, but I haven't had much luck. Recently, I learned how to make panoramic wallpapers from game screenshots, and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a few.

I made a couple from Mirror's Edge so far, I'll link to one of them (it's a full 3200x480 panorama): http://i49.tinypic.com/2u8kt2a.jpg

Would anybody be interested? :D

EDIT: Since there's interest, I'm going to start posting some of these right at the top, here!

Each one of these comes with the images in a 'wallpapers' folder, and a .desktop for it. This will all go in .images, when you connect the N900 to Mass Storage. The images are hidden from the Image Viewer, don't worry! And now, the goods!

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - Riding Shotgun

Preview: http://bit.ly/9th3DV

Download: http://bit.ly/ce8Kjw

Mirror's Edge - Heat

Preview: http://bit.ly/9RhVWZ

Download: http://bit.ly/alGQtQ

Mirror's Edge - Robert Pope & Associates

Preview: http://bit.ly/bf5m2P

Download: http://bit.ly/bURksl

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Looks very cool! Definitely keep them coming :)

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I just finished up another one. Again, this guy's from Mirror's Edge, you can find it here: http://i49.tinypic.com/289hdf6.jpg

Does anybody want me to upload the pre-cut images and .desktop files? I put all of these right in my images folder, so I've got everything set if they go directly in that folder.

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Yes please.

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As per request, you can find them here! http://bit.ly/daGfLO

(It's a dropbox link, I really need to find some more permanent online storage.)

The ZIP file has both images I've posted here so far. The .desktop files assume that everything's going to be in the images folder.

The actual images are contained in a wallpapers folder, and start with dots so that way the image viewer doesn't detect them. I tested it this way and it works. Just make sure the images stay in the wallpapers folder!

EDIT: Just so everyone knows, I'm taking requests! If there's a certain area in Mirror's Edge, or if there's another game you want me to try to get wallpapers of, just ask! I've got a handful of Source games (HL2 series, Portal, TF2), and I should be able to do the same thing that I'm doing now in any other Unreal Engine 3 game.

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[QUOTE=jaesond;740827]As per request, you can find them here! http://bit.ly/daGfLO

(It's a dropbox link, I really need to find some more permanent online storage.)

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Why dont you try the sky drive? free 25gb

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I use Pixelpipe on the N900 with Dropbox to upload images, then I can wipe them from the phone and have a backup!

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Why not upload to n900wallpapers.com?? it will make management of wallpapers easy using their prismic wallpaper manager..

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Thats cool!

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Huh, I actually did not know about that site until now! Thanks! :D

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Thanks for that nice wallpapers, I really like Mirror´s Edge...
How do you makes the panoramas, with a special software?

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It's a bit of an explanation, but I'll go through it all. :D

You need a copy of Photoshop or another program that can stitch images together (Photoshop has an automated process for it). You also need to be a little handy with image editing.

For Mirror's Edge and Unreal Engine 3 games, there's two commands that are important for this. One is "tiledshot", which takes a screenshot that's much larger than your resolution. I take screenshots at four times my in-game resolution.

The second command is "FreeFlightCamera", which lets you toggle the camera to a few different views. One of them is a free-floating camera, like no-clip but leaving the body behind. For Mirror's Edge, I had to find a spot where there was nobody chasing after me, then from there I would use the FreeFlightCamera to move to where I wanted the panorama.

From there, don't move the camera except for turning it. It's exactly how you would take a panorama with a photo camera, one picture every 15 degrees or so (about 24 pictures). I'd then angle up a bit and take about 6-8 screenshots, then angle down and do 6-8 more. From there, you can stitch them all together, find a common seam, and edit or blend it until it appears seamless. Then, crop!

I know it's not the best explanation. ^^; Source engine games are similar, use noclip and set it up where enemies can't see you, then find an area that you want to take screenshots. Both Source and Unreal Engine allow you to disable the HUD, too, which is important.

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Hey,

Your previous wallpapers looking amazing! I haven't played mirrors edge, but the inside of that building with the green effect looked great! IT reminds me of half life 1 when you first walk into that beginning control, and the alarm goes off for some mysterious reason, foreshadowing...

Could you try a Half life or half life 2 wallpaper? I'm not sure what scene would be best...

Thank you.

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I'm thinking an Episode 2 one, that area that you had to constantly drive, there was that little town of sorts. You had the car and an item tracker, that one. :D

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Thats different from the never-ending strider battle where you would drive around and shoot the gravity ball thing at all of them, right?

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Original Doom, or Doom 3? Same for Duke Nukem, any particular versions? The major thing is I need the game to support commands that A) keep me from getting attacked (like freezing the AI), and B) allow me to hide the HUD and weapon.

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thanks a lot ....great work

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Do you know this for source games?

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Here is a 3200x480 crop from GOW if you want to work your magic on it.

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5056/gowiii.jpg

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I would like to see a panorama from sniper:ghost warrior, it runns under the chrome4 engine and it has a realy nice grafic. But I don't know if there are similar commands to hide the hud.

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For Source, Valve actually has a nice little guide for it. Use r_drawviewmodel 0 and cl_drawhud 0 in order to hide everything. Use notarget to prevent enemies from targeting you, and use ai_disable and npc_freeze (when looking at Alyx or any other target) to keep them still.

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Sadly, I don't own Sniper: Ghost Warrior, so I wouldn't know where to begin, other than first obtaining a copy of the game. Sorry!

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hmm ok, if I find in the internet some usefull commands I'll try it at the weekend to create a nice wallpaper of sniper ghost warrior

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I can do 360 degree panoramas of screenshots if I get enough of them, and if they're clean enough. (no crosshairs, HUD or weapons displayed)

I just need enough images to stitch them together. :D

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@ Jaesond .. Can I upload your wallpapers to n900wallpapers.com? will name you as the creator..

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Be my guest! I tried uploading one set already, and it just didn't work. It said it was submitted and was waiting approval, and...nothing, yet. I'll keep posting them up here in this thread for everyone, though!

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this here is just screaming to be made into wallpaper
http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unit...ee.png?v=44400

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Thanks a bunch for these superb backgrounds and all the effort you have put into it, all the way to the .desktop files.

For me its great with game wall papers, but its no must.

I'd love any 4-screen beautiful seamless panoramas you can come up with.

I hope this is not the end of this thread.

Regards

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mmm yea so I took that pic from here made by deviantArt user suzuran
http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unit...ee.png?v=44400
file download here
enjoy

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would it be possible to do some panorama wallpaper for gran turismo ??

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Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition (make versions both with original graphics and with Jonof's port and the high resolution pack)
Serious Sam: First Encounter
Aliens vs Predator:Gold Edition
Descent 2
Trackmania Nations Forever
The first Half-Life
Popular Counter-Strike and Team Fortress maps
Portal
Devil's Tunning Fork (might be to hard to time themultiple shots correctly though)
The places commonly seen in RedvsBlue

Hm...i guess for the moment that is already plenty :)

For those games with both single player campaing and multiplayer maps, try getting a good sample of both types of maps and popular/iconic as well as infamous spots in each map. Many of those games allow you to play by yourself in multiplayer mode using single player maps that should be helpful for not getting interrupted by enemies.

Btw, i think you're gonna like Fisheye Quake and Panquake :P

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I wanted the half-life episode 2 one but the link is broken :(

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I noticed that as well..

I just grabbed the preview version and used Wallpaper Creator to split it up and turn it into an image set -- looks amazing :)

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Any chance for COD ? any map.

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I use this 1 - http://www.n900wallpapers.com/wallpa...dern-warfare-2