To anyone experienced,
I'm working on a project that I'm pouring more effort that what I usually do. So to complement the effort spent, I want to make a quality description for it.
To do so, I need any tips ranging from Dev console commands, preferred FOV for specific scenarios, how to pose the aircraft and how to use the green screen map effectively on mobile.
Hopefully, the [REDACTED] will be out on 23rd
Please share some tips. 🙏
@Wz
Interesting. Must be android though.
@TheMouse ye, there is a mobile mod map version
@TheMouse thank you for the mention, and yes I was the one who noticed the thumbnail is the same as a google slide! I use google slides for every thumbnail
@Wz
Cool.
But you are mobile, no?
@TheMouse > this thing
here is a guide to the dev console that I found helpful when learning some of this. One of the most useful ones imo is //MainCamera>camera.set_fieldOfView 15, to help with screenshots.
There are other things too, but this lets the screenshots be much higher quality, because you can be much closer to the plane (and don't have to crop out the control sticks)
I also suggest you edit any screenshots you get afterward, no need for a lot, but just to make it look a bit nicer. Some text with the name, or a symbol can look nice if you place them well.
For the aircraft pose, I prefer late in the day or sunset best, because the colors are easier to make look kind of reshadeish.
I don't recommend night time unless your plane very specifically is made for night, (and even then I don't recommend it) because it makes the whole thumbnail end up very dark, and generally light thumbnails are a lot better. (They are more noticeable)
Last tip: (I did not discover this, but a friend of mine told me) the thumbnail size on sp is almost exactly the same size as a google slide, so you can use this to crop the photo to the right size beforehand to avoid having grey corners outside the thumbnail, which look very bad. I don't usually use this because I am lazy, I just try a few times, and choose the shot that I think looks best. The problem is that the sp photo size is not the same size as what your thumbnail will be, which can make it difficult. (I think it was @B1Blancer who told me that last one…)
As for the green screen map, no idea, never heard of it. Unless you just mean a green screen, in which case some basic photo editing can get you a different background, but it may look weird. If you would like I can tag you on an old unlisted where I explained this method of backgrounds for thumbnails to someone else, but it was a while ago, so it may not be the most complete explanation.