MrWhitefolks' Gmod Screenshots

**YellerDog** · 23 Jul 2008, 10:38 PM

try to angle it so you don't see the ceiling. maybe get some controllers on the floor? different carpet, change that ugly ass wallpaper.

Right now it looks like they're kickin' it in a nursing home or clinic. It's very dull and sterile. What can you do to make the room more interesting?

Keep roughly the same camera position as the first one, just angle it down so you don't see ceiling. Flop Master Chief over to the other side of the TV.

**MrWhitefolks** · 24 Jul 2008, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by YellerDog

try to angle it so you don't see the ceiling. maybe get some controllers on the floor? different carpet, change that ugly ass wallpaper.

Right now it looks like they're kickin' it in a nursing home or clinic. It's very dull and sterile. What can you do to make the room more interesting?

Keep roughly the same camera position as the first one, just angle it down so you don't see ceiling. Flop Master Chief over to the other side of the TV.

1)This was room was my only option (no other map out there that I've found [and i spent well over 2 hours downloading maps] has a fairly large livingroom-esque area) unfortunately - the rest were either too dark, or had shitty posters everywhere that I wasn't about to try and fix (post would've been a pain in the ass).

While the room is 'drab' to an extent, it's not as if anyone's average house is really great looking on the inside. White walls, shitty carpet, etc.

2)Nobody made 360 controllers - so I have to mask it with an angle that hides what the 4 Nintendo characters are holding in their hands.

Also, there's no way in hell I'm moving MC. The entire theme is for him to be disconnected from the rest of the cast since he's the only Xbox type character there. It looks awkward enough without him in direct proximity to Samus, Bowser, and Zelda.

3)I'm calling this one done, unless I find a way to spruce it up (only thing I can think of is some kind of bookcase for the right corner, or some potted plants/wall flower type of thing). Even then, changing camera angles isn't going to fix shit for the feel of this, as it's too bright and 'normal' for this theme to really work 100%.

**YellerDog** · 24 Jul 2008, 01:21 AM

All-right man, but fair warning, letting that ceiling show, from a compositional standpoint, "sucks-the-dick".

I'm glad you had Bowser peek in the window though. There's hope for ya yet.

edit-because-i-thought-of-it-later-edit: I'd be ok with the first image if the ceiling was cropped out and Bowser's head was sticking in the window, actually. Fixes two problems!

**MrWhitefolks** · 24 Jul 2008, 01:37 AM

I just think we have a coinciding situation wherein I just cant find a way to really make this work, and you with the anti-game stuff disposition (no worries tho, that's your thing and I respect that).

In actuality this was just being done for someone's PSP wallpaper (a personal friend, not some asshat's internet request or anything) so I think I can just chalk it up to a learning experiment more than anything else. I've got way too much going on, with too many variables I can't fully control (no finger/face posing, no 360 controllers, no control over wallpaper/carpet/room ambiance, etc).

Either way - ONTO THE NEXT RANDOM PROJECT .... once I figure out what that project is going to be, lol.

Ok then, how about we start sending me ideas and stupid requests? Sooner or later something will click and it'll result in something badass.

**MrWhitefolks** · 24 Jul 2008, 06:39 AM

Ok, I don't know what it is, but I got home from running around with friends and just had that 'urge' to do this god damn image right(er). Better angle, better lighting/editing, better xbox360 light, better samsung logo/power button, Bowser is still kicking it, better depth of field, etc -

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Now I'm done. Whether or not this goes over is irrelevant, as I've spent way too much time on a simple request for something that's getting resized to 480x272, lol.

**YellerDog** · 24 Jul 2008, 01:49 PM

Better! I think Bowser's head could stand to be shoved more through the window (there's a ton of negative space between the TV and his face that's not doing anything for ya), but good!

I have no idea why you were worried about the Samsung logo of all things!

**MrWhitefolks** · 24 Jul 2008, 04:09 PM

The reason I was worried about the Samsung logo was due to the fact that the tv itself is just black. So without a logo there it looks like a retarded photo frame.

Btw; That Bowser head? Yeah, that's a cut and paste job from the earlier image with some small perspective warping and post editing.

edit: That dead space we were concerned about? Worked out PEFECTLY as it's the same width/height where the XMB logos pop up on the psp. Talk about a badass coincidence, haha!