Always Black Screens

black screens always

Can this be used in animation?

Peak addon.

i just get black screens as well even on the lowest settings

So does this work with smh tool?

Благодарю за аддон! Было бы прекрасно, если бы он работал с командой "cl_leveloverview *цифра*"
Если мне так приспичит, то, возможно, попытаюсь сделать сам поддержку этой команды в аддоне

it would be great if this would also work while we are using a camera on, kind of like when you put a camera or an advanced camera, if you could add something like this in a future update, it would be great.

the resolution doesnt work anymore,I cant get past 1080,other resolutions makes the picture appear black,and months ago,I could use 4K perfectly fine.

I'll soon engage in retooling the addon. For now my aim is on a bit different things.

I just get a black screen.... Every time, No matter what resolution is chosen.

i got black screen instead, any solution?

почему у меня некоторые фото просто чёрные? Типа идёт ряд нормальных скринов, и дальше череда фулл чёрных картинок. Ошибки не выдавало

а msaa оно поддерживает? прост материалы с бинарной прозрачностью ($alphatest) и параметром $allowalphatocoverage захватываются без msaa, то есть рендерятся без сглаживания

This camera is so useful for a poser like me. I cannot thank you enough for making this addon.

You already can significantly lower screenshot's resolution with this addon. There are settings for it

What if you made a Low Resolution Camera. Highest is 720p and Lowest is 72p and You can Make the sound more ''Crisper''?

for some reason when I take a photo the screenshot is all black

@noaccess I dont think so, I gotta check

Nice addon, I already tried to tinker with it a long time ago but I'm wondering, is it possible to do more than 16K? I tried pushing the resolution in the addon's lua but with no results, I would say it's the game's limitation but tell me if you know more

Did you make them without any additional post-processing?

mine are also turning into a void. whats that about?

Every one of my pictures is a black void, what is the glitch

You're welcome

Hello @noaccess! Thank you so much for this update!

Also, opened suggestions discussion. Let's move them there instead of the comments section.

Major update is released! Check the update notes.

Аддон суперский, но почему-то некоторые скрины сохранять отказывается.

Делал работу полчаса - в итоге аддон показал мне кукиш и 6 файлов весом от 0 до 4 байт(

Alright, thank you so much!

@Gamer, I've figured out that massive file size is because of full color depth. Not because of the texture filtering option.

I'll add an option for choosing the color depth of the screenshot soon. It won't be that customizable because there are pre-compiled image formats.

More information here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VTF_(Valve_Texture_Format)#Image_data_formats

You don't need to include the brackets and its contents. `steamapps` is where your Steam is installed

How do I get to the folder? when I try and copy and past this: " steamapps/common/GarrysMod/garrysmod/data/hrc/(map_YYYY-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS.selected format)", it goes to my browser

А где боди камера от первого лица?

In continuation of my 2 previous comments, here's a demonstration of what I meant (I do want the camera to hide when using the HRC):

https://imgur.com/a/I8Rvj7v

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I want that option because I want to spawn 2 cameras at very specific angles, which unfortunately 1 camera is visible (because it is placed in like 45° degrees from the other camera which unfortunately breaks the immersiveness of the screenshot when the other camera is visible) and it feels so tiresome to constantly load a save, manually and carefully posing ragdolls, go back to that very same spot of the other visible camera, equip the High Resolution Camera and constantly delete the other camera that was spawned using the Tool Gun to not break the screenshot's immersion (yes, I want to take screenshots at very timed points or "spots" too).

It would be nice if the potentially named "hide spawned cameras when HRC is equipped" option is checked by default in an upcoming update.

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Hello @noacess! Just curious, can you implement an option in the High Resolution Camera settings to "hide" the "camera" that can be spawned with the Tool Gun just like when equipping Gmod's native "Camera"?

I mean when you spawn a camera using the Tool Gun (whose view can be toggled using a hotkey, default is NUMPAD 0), then equip Gmod's native "Camera" (but NOT the "High Resolution Camera"), the "camera" that was spawned using the Tool Gun "disappears" (or "hides") when you equip it and comes back as soon as you unequip Gmod's native camera "weapon", which unfortunately doesn't disappear when you equip the High Resolution Camera.

Hello whenever i take a picture the game crashes and says "Something is trying to render to many thing!" even tho i have 8k video cards

No, that format isn't whitelisted. Here is which ones are acceptable [wiki.facepunch.com]

would it be possible to add the ability to save photos as .jxl (jpeg xl), its basically just an all around better format as it keeps the quality of jpeg but with smaller filesizes

Thanks

Alright, thanks for the explanation. And good luck with implementing the file size-reduction option

Hello, I'm glad that now it works for you.

In this addon, render targets for screenshots have anisotropic filtering; perhaps, this is what causes massive file sizes. In that case, I'll make an option for choosing texture filtering (pointsample, trilinear, anisotropic)

Saving screenshots to Steam library cannot be done through Lua. That's an internal engine thing.

Hello @noaccess!

Since the 2 comments that I made 8 days ago, I can now take screenshots in .jpg or .jpeg with no problems just like the .png format, the game must've needed file caching or something to work properly as I recently installed this addon.

However, the massive file size problem is still present and just the same sizes.

Also, a nice feature if you could add is the ability to upload these screenshots to the Steam Workshop, because as you probably already know since you are the author of this mod, the screenshots taken with this mod cannot be uploaded to the Steam Workshop (they can only be uploaded to external sites like Imgur, Discord and stuff, but not on Steam itself even if I try renaming the file names to be just like how Gmod or Steam saves them) unlike the screenshots taken from Gmod itself using the F5 hotkey or using the built-in camera weapon.

If it will be possible, I will soon look into these issues.

a recurring problem I had with this addon was with the use of overlays from the "Post Process" built-in Gmod.
When using the custom resolution feature (to give a VHS or Mini DV look to the picture) and using overlays, like a VHS overlay, it squashes the screenshot in the custom resolution.
And, when using normal High Res presets, it's usually the upper left quarter of the image that doesn't get the overlay treatment.

[2/2] I mean, I get that the file extensions are different (one is a .jpg and the other is .png) so that could be a factor (not idea though), but when I change the file extension so that the screenshot should saved in like .jpg or .jpeg, all I get is some 2-3 byte file, the only thing that works for me is the default .png file extension.

Is there a way to reduce the file size? This is literally the first time ever in my entire life taking a 16K screenshot and I was absolutely shocked to see that a 16K screenshot's file size is 108MB (which is not what actual 16K screenshots would be that massive in sizes) that I can't upload a file with that massive size anywhere, neither Imgur, Reddit, Discord, DeviantArt or anywhere else. And I didn't even touch anything in the mod's settings other than the resolution and file extension settings.

[1/2] Hello @noaccess! Just curious, why is there such a MASSIVE DIFFERENCE in screenshot file size between taking a screenshot natively (at least using the F5 hotkey) and taking a screenshot with the High Resolution Camera mod? Here are 2 screenshots that I took:

20240813011458_1.jpg is taken in actual 8K without the addon (I can do dynamic 8K using Nvidia DSR and it's just a big headache to switch to 8K all the time just for taking screenshots. The file size is 4.28MB):

https://www mediafire com/view/3z8vtq4gij2tqxq/20240813011458_1.jpg/file (add dots between "www" and "com")

And gm_rats_nest_2024-08-13_01.14.46.png is 8K when I was in 1080p but made the mod's camera resolution to be 8K (this one's file size is 34.4MB):

https://www mediafire com/view/iayicstr1tulmb7/gm_rats_nest_2024-08-13_01.14.46.png/file (add dots between "www" and "com")

Love the tool, but Super DOF does not render the same way as it does in game. Seems to be an issue with the radials, the more radials used, the less the DOF appears in the screenshot. Lower radials cause sharp, ugly bokeh.

steamapps/common/GarrysMod/garrysmod/data/hrc/(map_YYYY-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS.selected format)

This might cause my pc to do a Hiroshima, but Ima try it anyway