Mass Effect One, Complete Eden Prime Playthrough (614 JPS screenshots in order) Load into NVIDIA 3D
I've decided for my current play through of Mass Effect One I'll be taking screen shots of all major plots of the game. All of the screen shots have anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds increments in between each shot. Some of the shots came out very well with nice pop out effects. Also if you are a fan of the game it's fun to just see it all happen in stereo 3D.

At first it was difficult to take these screen shots with the 99 limit, it forced me to have to alt tab out and recopy the JPS files. You can't do that during crucial parts of the game. I finally got really pissed off and fed up so I wrote a little app that fixed it. Now I can take as many screen shots as I want and can begin making cool 3D archives of every game I play.

[u][b]Mass Effect One - Eden Prime Complete play through[/b][/u]
Convergence: High
Depth: 17%
Crosshair: In game crosshair
Eye Comfort: Comfortable
Ghosting: Minimal
Monitor: Viewsonic vx2268wm
NVIDIA Control Panel Custom Settings: 32% brightness - 32% contrast - 1.40 gamma
In game settings: All Max with 85 gamma

[i]612 screenshots[/i]
HOTFILE [b]Download[/b]: [URL=http://hotfile.com/dl/94600340/3952ac6/Eden_Prime.rar.html]http://hotfile.com/dl/94600340/3952ac6/Eden_Prime.rar.html[/URL]

Open the NVIDIA Photo Viewer, go to slide show, load the folder, include sub-directories and it should play in order.

I wanted to crank up the depth but anymore and i'd be forced to lose convergence and risk too much double vision on the in game cross hair. My goal was to have a nice, decent 3D effect while playing comfortably for 2-3 hours with no eye strain. I could easily play 5 hours with no eye strain this way.

[u]Further thoughts[/u]

There are four common modes through out all games. Imagine if you could press nvidia hotkeys setup in conjuction with a G15 keyboard to achieve the following functionality.

[b]Traveling (out of combat)[/b] - ALT F5
Hotkey instantly sets depth to 40 and high convergence.

[b]Aiming (combat)[/b] - Usually Right Mouse Button DOWN
When you hold down right mouse button depth gets set to 80 and the in game hud turns off (most games allow this) and the nvidia crosshair turns on

[b]Hip Fire (combat)[/b] - Usually Right Mouse Button UP
When you let go of the right mouse button depth gets set to say 40 and in game hud turns back on, then nvidia crosshair turns off

[b]Cinematic/Cutscenes[/b] - ALT F8
When you hit a hotkey it will instantly set depth & convergence to the values most suited for cinematics.

All this can be achieved if we have four hotkeys that will instantly change depth & convergence in the nvidia control panel. Just food for thought.



...... Anyways on a different note, I attached two of the screenshots for a quick view of what to expect.
I've decided for my current play through of Mass Effect One I'll be taking screen shots of all major plots of the game. All of the screen shots have anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds increments in between each shot. Some of the shots came out very well with nice pop out effects. Also if you are a fan of the game it's fun to just see it all happen in stereo 3D.



At first it was difficult to take these screen shots with the 99 limit, it forced me to have to alt tab out and recopy the JPS files. You can't do that during crucial parts of the game. I finally got really pissed off and fed up so I wrote a little app that fixed it. Now I can take as many screen shots as I want and can begin making cool 3D archives of every game I play.



Mass Effect One - Eden Prime Complete play through

Convergence: High

Depth: 17%

Crosshair: In game crosshair

Eye Comfort: Comfortable

Ghosting: Minimal

Monitor: Viewsonic vx2268wm

NVIDIA Control Panel Custom Settings: 32% brightness - 32% contrast - 1.40 gamma

In game settings: All Max with 85 gamma



612 screenshots

HOTFILE Download: http://hotfile.com/dl/94600340/3952ac6/Eden_Prime.rar.html



Open the NVIDIA Photo Viewer, go to slide show, load the folder, include sub-directories and it should play in order.



I wanted to crank up the depth but anymore and i'd be forced to lose convergence and risk too much double vision on the in game cross hair. My goal was to have a nice, decent 3D effect while playing comfortably for 2-3 hours with no eye strain. I could easily play 5 hours with no eye strain this way.



Further thoughts



There are four common modes through out all games. Imagine if you could press nvidia hotkeys setup in conjuction with a G15 keyboard to achieve the following functionality.



Traveling (out of combat) - ALT F5

Hotkey instantly sets depth to 40 and high convergence.



Aiming (combat) - Usually Right Mouse Button DOWN

When you hold down right mouse button depth gets set to 80 and the in game hud turns off (most games allow this) and the nvidia crosshair turns on



Hip Fire (combat) - Usually Right Mouse Button UP

When you let go of the right mouse button depth gets set to say 40 and in game hud turns back on, then nvidia crosshair turns off



Cinematic/Cutscenes - ALT F8

When you hit a hotkey it will instantly set depth & convergence to the values most suited for cinematics.



All this can be achieved if we have four hotkeys that will instantly change depth & convergence in the nvidia control panel. Just food for thought.







...... Anyways on a different note, I attached two of the screenshots for a quick view of what to expect.

#1
Posted 01/06/2011 05:53 AM   
Very nice.

I know there is a way to change convergence/depth as a registry file. So it maybe possible to set them as keys to change registry on the fly.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=95306
Is a link describing the registry settings.

Then you need to create a .bat with registry changes
just make sure its "silent" so you dont have to confirm it so it could go on the fly

Bind those keys to open the .bat file.

Im not sure it will work but if you want to put the work in and see props to you.
Very nice.



I know there is a way to change convergence/depth as a registry file. So it maybe possible to set them as keys to change registry on the fly.



http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=95306

Is a link describing the registry settings.



Then you need to create a .bat with registry changes

just make sure its "silent" so you dont have to confirm it so it could go on the fly



Bind those keys to open the .bat file.



Im not sure it will work but if you want to put the work in and see props to you.

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#2
Posted 01/06/2011 07:04 AM   
[quote name='jenson' date='06 January 2011 - 01:53 AM' timestamp='1294293208' post='1172158']
...

[u]Further thoughts[/u]

There are four common modes through out all games. Imagine if you could press nvidia hotkeys setup in conjuction with a G15 keyboard to achieve the following functionality.

[b]Traveling (out of combat)[/b] - ALT F5
Hotkey instantly sets depth to 40 and high convergence.

[b]Aiming (combat)[/b] - Usually Right Mouse Button DOWN
When you hold down right mouse button depth gets set to 80 and the in game hud turns off (most games allow this) and the nvidia crosshair turns on

[b]Hip Fire (combat)[/b] - Usually Right Mouse Button UP
When you let go of the right mouse button depth gets set to say 40 and in game hud turns back on, then nvidia crosshair turns off

[b]Cinematic/Cutscenes[/b] - ALT F8
When you hit a hotkey it will instantly set depth & convergence to the values most suited for cinematics.

All this can be achieved if we have four hotkeys that will instantly change depth & convergence in the nvidia control panel. Just food for thought.



...... Anyways on a different note, I attached two of the screenshots for a quick view of what to expect.
[/quote]

I've thought about that before too. constantly adjusting the convergence level in games like this is a pain. a hotkey would be great
[quote name='jenson' date='06 January 2011 - 01:53 AM' timestamp='1294293208' post='1172158']

...



Further thoughts



There are four common modes through out all games. Imagine if you could press nvidia hotkeys setup in conjuction with a G15 keyboard to achieve the following functionality.



Traveling (out of combat) - ALT F5

Hotkey instantly sets depth to 40 and high convergence.



Aiming (combat) - Usually Right Mouse Button DOWN

When you hold down right mouse button depth gets set to 80 and the in game hud turns off (most games allow this) and the nvidia crosshair turns on



Hip Fire (combat) - Usually Right Mouse Button UP

When you let go of the right mouse button depth gets set to say 40 and in game hud turns back on, then nvidia crosshair turns off



Cinematic/Cutscenes - ALT F8

When you hit a hotkey it will instantly set depth & convergence to the values most suited for cinematics.



All this can be achieved if we have four hotkeys that will instantly change depth & convergence in the nvidia control panel. Just food for thought.







...... Anyways on a different note, I attached two of the screenshots for a quick view of what to expect.





I've thought about that before too. constantly adjusting the convergence level in games like this is a pain. a hotkey would be great

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#3
Posted 01/06/2011 07:25 AM   
[quote name='eqzitara' date='06 January 2011 - 07:04 AM' timestamp='1294297470' post='1172176']
Very nice.

I know there is a way to change convergence/depth as a registry file. So it maybe possible to set them as keys to change registry on the fly.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=95306
Is a link describing the registry settings.

Then you need to create a .bat with registry changes
just make sure its "silent" so you dont have to confirm it so it could go on the fly

Bind those keys to open the .bat file.

Im not sure it will work but if you want to put the work in and see props to you.
[/quote]

I've tried this in a similar way and it didn't work unfortunately. I wrote an app that waited for me to press a keystroke while I was in game, when I hit that key it would write the new registry values but the results would not reflect during gameplay. I had to alt tab out and back in as I recall. This makes sense, I doubt they would hook the registry and adjust conv/depth in realtime based upon a change. Maybe I'll take a look at it again and see if something could be done, but I doubt it.
[quote name='eqzitara' date='06 January 2011 - 07:04 AM' timestamp='1294297470' post='1172176']

Very nice.



I know there is a way to change convergence/depth as a registry file. So it maybe possible to set them as keys to change registry on the fly.



http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=95306

Is a link describing the registry settings.



Then you need to create a .bat with registry changes

just make sure its "silent" so you dont have to confirm it so it could go on the fly



Bind those keys to open the .bat file.



Im not sure it will work but if you want to put the work in and see props to you.





I've tried this in a similar way and it didn't work unfortunately. I wrote an app that waited for me to press a keystroke while I was in game, when I hit that key it would write the new registry values but the results would not reflect during gameplay. I had to alt tab out and back in as I recall. This makes sense, I doubt they would hook the registry and adjust conv/depth in realtime based upon a change. Maybe I'll take a look at it again and see if something could be done, but I doubt it.

#4
Posted 01/06/2011 11:22 AM   
-you have to use the video viewer, not the photo viewer, latter is a pos.

Video viewer works awesome, you can scroll back and forth with F2 , F3, space = freeze , you have to defreeze to scroll.

It won't work with directories , so you have to manually select all *.jps. Not a big problem with total commander.
-you have to use the video viewer, not the photo viewer, latter is a pos.



Video viewer works awesome, you can scroll back and forth with F2 , F3, space = freeze , you have to defreeze to scroll.



It won't work with directories , so you have to manually select all *.jps. Not a big problem with total commander.

#5
Posted 01/06/2011 12:57 PM   
[quote]All of the screen shots have anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds increments in between each shot.[/quote]
So THAT is what you've been doing! You know, if you are taking a screenshot every 15 seconds, maybe it's time to record a video instead? FRAPS works great in S3D. FFMpeg will crunch the size down to something sane.
All of the screen shots have anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds increments in between each shot.


So THAT is what you've been doing! You know, if you are taking a screenshot every 15 seconds, maybe it's time to record a video instead? FRAPS works great in S3D. FFMpeg will crunch the size down to something sane.

#6
Posted 01/07/2011 02:07 AM   
[quote name='Zloth' date='07 January 2011 - 02:07 AM' timestamp='1294366033' post='1172685']
So THAT is what you've been doing! You know, if you are taking a screenshot every 15 seconds, maybe it's time to record a video instead? FRAPS works great in S3D. FFMpeg will crunch the size down to something sane.
[/quote]

Yea ultimately that is the best solution, but i'm too lazy for video editing! Hah :P

[quote name='tritosine' date='06 January 2011 - 12:57 PM' timestamp='1294318629' post='1172311']
-you have to use the video viewer, not the photo viewer, latter is a pos.

Video viewer works awesome, you can scroll back and forth with F2 , F3, space = freeze , you have to defreeze to scroll.

It won't work with directories , so you have to manually select all *.jps. Not a big problem with total commander.
[/quote]

Thanks for this tip, this is much better! :)
[quote name='Zloth' date='07 January 2011 - 02:07 AM' timestamp='1294366033' post='1172685']

So THAT is what you've been doing! You know, if you are taking a screenshot every 15 seconds, maybe it's time to record a video instead? FRAPS works great in S3D. FFMpeg will crunch the size down to something sane.





Yea ultimately that is the best solution, but i'm too lazy for video editing! Hah :P



[quote name='tritosine' date='06 January 2011 - 12:57 PM' timestamp='1294318629' post='1172311']

-you have to use the video viewer, not the photo viewer, latter is a pos.



Video viewer works awesome, you can scroll back and forth with F2 , F3, space = freeze , you have to defreeze to scroll.



It won't work with directories , so you have to manually select all *.jps. Not a big problem with total commander.





Thanks for this tip, this is much better! :)

#7
Posted 01/07/2011 02:26 AM   
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