I have added a new feature to the Halo Custom Edition website: User Submitted Map Screenshots. You can now add screenshots to the website for your favorite maps.

Once before I tried to get volunteers to help update the website with screenshots of the maps and now that it is easier I am asking again. I am looking for people to take some time and take quality screenshots of the various maps in the file archive. I would prefer dev-mode shots but gameplay shots would be fine to shot off the maps.

There is no registration required just take your screenshots and upload them to the correct map. After upload you will be asked to enter and optional username and an optional caption for each screenshot. All screenshots will be reviewed before being placed on line.

Just navigate to your favorite map and click the “Add New Screenshot” link on the page.

Enjoy… Dennis

hawt.

Cool idea Dennis.

What should we upload them as? File/picture type or whatever. Like .jpeg, etc.

New Motto: "Can you help Halomaps?"

Uploaded my desktop picture of Seclusion. This is a really cool feature. If you get anymore time it would be cool to have a way just to look through all the images like pcgameshots.

It says it. There's rules. Go look.

He has to review it I think.

*Gasp* You're a genius.

I would really like it if people who want to help loaded some of the older maps and took screenshots of them. I will most likely add screenshts of the new ones, but the older ones will take time. I did a few.

Image formats supported: jpeg, jpg, gif, png, tiff, tif, pcx, bmp, tga All get resized and converted to jpg.

click the link on the left main menu that says: Map ScreenShots
ALL images get reviewed before they are placed on-line. This is one of the reasons why. Images will not show up until I approve them. You can also reject an upload at the image preview step.

Cool!

It would be cool if we could leave comments on the maps page too.

Very very un-cool. Have you been to YouTube lately??? No thank you.

Are we also able to upload pictures for tags, models, etc.? Would be nice to have screenshots for some of the other files that don't have any pictures to them.

Nope, Just screenshots for the map sections.

Ill im gonna say is be prepared for an insane amount of pictures of the porn room from insomnia.

Huh...

I've added 1 picture for Headlong PB2 and The Silent Photographer. :)

Btw, what's the maximum limit for uploading pictures for a single map?
Edited by Tuaha on Nov 14, 2008 at 05:02 AM

Go Dennis and his awesome ideas!

Wow, great idea, Dennis! I've already downloaded a few cool-looking maps thanks to this. I uploaded some of my own images, too.

3rd party site?

Hard drive space is cheap, I have terabytes, and we added more bandwidth to the network a few months ago. Besides the game websites barely saturate a T-1 and our image server is photoshop quality so the images are processed for a mix of size and quality. Those 400-700K png files people like to make get reduced to 30-80K with no noticable quality loss. The image server also handles and converts the TGA format HCE produces for screenshots.

It is the file servers that carry the bulk of the bandwidth.

I love it Dennis! Thanks again i just found a few maps i never downloaded are awesome!

Dennis, why did you put screenshots for musee sexe? musee sexe means sex museum

I <3 joo.

but can someone tell me how to use the camera with dev mode???
(taking pics, saving pics, activating the camera, etc.)


i am willing to take screen shots of lameass box...

debug_camera_save
debug_camera_load

(controls like sapien)

make sure you right click on the halo custom edition shortcut properties, in the target, type "-screenshot" after the link without the quotations.

camera_control 0 to go back into fp view

wait can you just use that dev thingy shaun made?

Its the same thing, except the screenshots part. screenshots enabled still allow you to go online. the camera codes can be used with the AllDev or the Devmode

alright i just hit camera_control 1
then i just went to the top of the map.

i have not control of the camera.
how do i get control over teh camera?

zomg

debug_camera_save
debug_camera_load

it activates the camera, the controls to move are the same as sapien

camera_control 0
brings you back into first person view, you dont add any other numbers, that will mess it up

i typed in debug camera, it did absoulutly nothing.
tell me the controls, because i dont have sapien, and have/will never used it...

Use the middle scroll button to move the camera. and remember DO NOT type:

debug_camera save
debug_camera load

Type:

debug_camera_save
debug_camera_load

And camera_control 1 is for the cinimatic camera.

What happened to all those people who were oh so willing to help take screenshots of the maps? All talk and no action huh?

I would dennis but my graphics card is the fail, so my pics would make the maps look bad :P

We don't use the tools you give us, but when you take them away we all complain. I thought you knew.