Let us commission screenshots as paintings

Have you ever had a screenshot so awesome that you wanted to hang it on the wall of your apartment or house?

What if SE had a system in place to allow us to do that? For a fee (aka gil sink), we could submit screenshots for commission by Joyous Painter.

I doubt it'll happen, since screenshots are held client side. SE is pretty fascist about server side control and miserly about using server resources.

Awesome idea. I'd rather be able to hang pictures of my friends and me in my apartment instead of the portraits of Hildibrand and MSQ people. +1 to you OP.

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Originally Posted by ChloeGrace

Have you ever had a screenshot so awesome that you wanted to hang it on the wall of your apartment or house?

What if SE had a system in place to allow us to do that? For a fee (aka gil sink), we could submit screenshots for commission by Joyous Painter.

I doubt it'll happen, since screenshots are held client side. SE is pretty fascist about server side control and miserly about using server resources.

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That would be fun, and isn't completely unheard of in MMOs. Another game I play I play lets you make custom images that can be used as either paintings, or for your boat sails / car crests, etc - and it's not just client side either. Shows up in the active world for everyone. It's a pretty cool feature :)

However, SE's servers seem to built with twigs and mud, and I'm sure this would tax them even further.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

That would be fun, and isn't completely unheard of in MMOs. Another game I play I play lets you make custom images that can be used as either paintings, or for your boat sails / car crests, etc - and it's not just client side either. Shows up in the active world for everyone. It's a pretty cool feature :)

However, SE's servers seem to built with twigs and mud, and I'm sure this would tax them even further.

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Yes , Archeage right? I also used a photo of pokemon as my boat sail

I think it could be do-able, I play a game that even lets your character paint portraits so you can hang them too! It's a really sweet idea.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

However, SE's servers seem to built with twigs and mud, and I'm sure this would tax them even further.

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That's not the reason why we don't have this sort of thing already in the game though (and probably never will) - it's the same reason why we can't use custom artwork for FC crests.

The later was also asked back during the Beta test and the development team responded that human nature being what it is, someone would inevitably think it funny to use something for FC crest artwork that is in violation of the Terms of Service, and thus it would require SE to check each hypothetical image before it could be used to ensure it complies with the ToS, a tedious and time consuming task which would eat into development resources which could be better spent elsewhere. So SE decided not to implement such an option.

In much the same way, it means screenshots won't be able to be used as in-game paintings either sadly, as awesome as it would be to have.

Yes,please,I want to hang the portrait of myself in my own house !

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Originally Posted by ChloeGrace

Have you ever had a screenshot so awesome that you wanted to hang it on the wall of your apartment or house?

What if SE had a system in place to allow us to do that? For a fee (aka gil sink), we could submit screenshots for commission by Joyous Painter.

I doubt it'll happen, since screenshots are held client side. SE is pretty fascist about server side control and miserly about using server resources.

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PS3 limit.....euh......server limitations ! xD

To not have to check each image, they could simply ("simply") add an item such as an ingame camera, that saves say the last 5 screenshots you took with it, and lets you get those as paintings. It wouldn't allow you to use screenshots you already have, but you could use new ones you take.

I've thought about this too, I'd love this feature! I understand they don't want people to add their own images from the outside world, so maybe it could be like the Sims, taking a photo (screenshot) with some sort of ingame camera feature and using it as a paint (?)

Personally, I'd love it if I could take screens with my friends and keep them as a memory in my house.

Awesome idea on paper and can be done (BnS profiles, Aion and TERA Guild symbols, CS:GO Sprays) but you will end with people using it for pornographic stuff and SE will be forced to shut down the system (also the size and quality of the pic will be low).

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Originally Posted by Rakiria

To not have to check each image, they could simply ("simply") add an item such as an ingame camera, that saves say the last 5 screenshots you took with it, and lets you get those as paintings. It wouldn't allow you to use screenshots you already have, but you could use new ones you take.

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Regrettably, that couldn't work. Screenshots are still held on the client, and could be altered/replaced before submission despite whatever checks are in place.
The shot would need to be stored at the server at the time it is taken to ensure that it's not corrupted. Images are resource heavy by default, so that's a ton of data moving through the pipelines.
Even giving one per player is a massive overhead that I sincerely doubt SE will ever agree to.

I wish. But SE has so many non sense restrictions and bad customization issues in this game i doubt we'd ever get the joyous painter idea. Such a shame.

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Originally Posted by Driavna

Awesome idea on paper and can be done (BnS profiles, Aion and TERA Guild symbols, CS:GO Sprays) but you will end with people using it for pornographic stuff and SE will be forced to shut down the system (also the size and quality of the pic will be low).

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Dont see why. Other games dont shut down their system because of lewdness. Why would SE?
Remember kids, violence good, sex is forbidden

While I can't see this happening, an alternate option would be for some kind of tool like /gpose, wherein you would take a snapshot and then pay a fee in gil to have it turned into a painting to hang in your house. This way you could have self portraits, paintings of the whole FC together, etc.

It would all be done client-side, and there's no way it could be used as a violation of the ToS.

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Originally Posted by Nhisso

Dont see why. Other games dont shut down their system because of lewdness. Why would SE?
Remember kids, violence good, sex is forbidden

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This is a good point. Who's even going to see your lewd self portrait hanging in your house besides yourself and maybe a few members of your FC?

If we don't have systems like this because of the potential of misuse, we should get rid of the chat box since I can potentially use it to call people a *** ******* who likes to ***** and *** the Lalafell ramen.

+1

As a fair Narcisse, I want my self portrait IG (I mean the character not the real me :p) :D

Tbh... I actually wanted something similiar to this.... And as egotistical as it sounds, I want a portrait of myself to stick on my wall in the house. Why shouldn't the WoL have a painting of herself to show how awesome she is?

Know what would be even more awesome?

Commision your Character as a 3D-printed hand-painted figurine as ppl can do with WoW:

https://www.figureprints.com/

I would want this solely because I imagine my own character to be so vain she'd literally just have a feature wall of her own face

This is very good idea. This game is gorgeous, so many awesome places that under the right climate and time of the day provide awesome shots.

Imagine a class -photographer/painter- that you could take/paint pictures and then sell them in the open market... (crazy idea I know :))

Nonetheless I support this idea. :)

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Originally Posted by Nhisso

Dont see why. Other games dont shut down their system because of lewdness. Why would SE?
Remember kids, violence good, sex is forbidden

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Because SE doesn't want to step out of their comfort zone and some players might get their e-feelings hurt with a pic that could be reported, and dealt with, giving the pic owner a sanction like B&S did with profile pics, removing your priviledges to change profile pics.

Regardless of all the hypothetical situations, I still think this would be a nice idea.

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Originally Posted by Nhisso

Dont see why. Other games dont shut down their system because of lewdness. Why would SE?
Remember kids, violence good, sex is forbidden

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This already happen in others games (Aion, TERA and BnS) and they shut down the system for a time and limited it a lot once reinstated.

I like this idea. I think this is probably one of my most painting-worthy screenshots.

http://i.imgur.com/GYJAtOH.jpg

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Originally Posted by Dameron

http://i.imgur.com/GYJAtOH.jpg

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Nice shot! Reminds me of Anor Londo.

I'd like this idea, but I'd prefer any submissions were run through an 'approval' layer before we could actually use them. Because all I can think of is people with the nude mode posting lewds in their houses, and the moral panic that might happen if 'concerned parents' find out that is a possibility within the game.