Screenshots in poster size?

[Falkenherz]

I remember Mr. Braben saying that the game can be upscaled for future better graphic. 4k-resolution is already there. I wonder if that would be enough to make posters from screenshots.

Does anybody know:

- Where I could let print a poster from a screenshot and if that would make sense with a 4k resolution?

- Whether Frontier offers even higher resolutions to take screenshots in?


And a question for Frontier:

Do you guys plan to sell posters with ingame screenshots, maybe even from some screenshot contests?

 

[Ravenov]

Alt F10 screens should be easily able to print A0 size i would think ... i have a photo print of that size that was made from a 12 megapixel DSLR. 4x 1920 res works out at around 33MP i think, so you should be god to go...

 

[eza]

Alt F10 screens should be easily able to print A0 size i would think ... i have a photo print of that size that was made from a 12 megapixel DSLR. 4x 1920 res works out at around 33MP i think, so you should be god to go...

4 x 1920 x 1080 = 8,294,400 = approx 8.3MP

 

[Evdar Pakir]

If you have the necessary hardware to render the game in 4K, Alt+F10 will give you 15,360x8,640 screeshots (almost 133MP i.e. one hundred and thirty three megapixels).
There was an example in Newsletter 33.

 

[Macca]

If you have an nvidia with DSR you can run it in wild resolutions higher than you native lcd one and alt+F10 it. Will be freaking huge.

 

[Obsidian Ant]

I remember Mr. Braben saying that the game can be upscaled for future better graphic. 4k-resolution is already there. I wonder if that would be enough to make posters from screenshots.

Does anybody know:

- Where I could let print a poster from a screenshot and if that would make sense with a 4k resolution?

- Whether Frontier offers even higher resolutions to take screenshots in?


And a question for Frontier:

Do you guys plan to sell posters with ingame screenshots, maybe even from some screenshot contests?

You need higher resolution than 4k to get high quality sharp posters.

So - run the game in 4k (use upscaling on your graphics card to expose the resolution in game)...then do a alt-F10 screenshot - the result with be a 16k image.

 

[Ravenov]

4 x 1920 x 1080 = 8,294,400 = approx 8.3MP

8MP is more like 3264x2448. Don't forget that both sides of the high res screenshot have been multiplied by 4, so you need to multiply your figure by 4 again.

Edit for the maths bit: (1920x4) x (1080x4) or 7680x4320 = 33177660 pixels.

 

[planthe]

7680x4320 should work out to ca. 161 dpi on an A0 landscape poster (1189 x 841 mm). Considering that 300 dpi is usually good enough for a handheld print product, 161 dpi for a poster (which you presumably don't get as close to) will work out.

 

[Falkenherz]

Very cool, guys!

 

[Ravenov]

Just realized i underestimated the size of A0; the photo print i made from a 12mp (4288x2848) image is 20x30 inches, which is rather smaller. Doesn't change anything though, you ought to be able to get a decent 20x30 inch print from a 6mp image.