Panorama's of the end of the 6th Astral Era.

Hey everyone!

Well, it's not long now until Dalamud ends the 6th Astral Era.
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to record the last breaths of a world in such turmoil.
As such, I've been capturing 360 degree panorama's (starting at about #3) of the various area's around Eorzea.
I'm slowly trying to record as many places as I can, so bear with me!
If you know of a location that you'd like recorded, by all means give me a heads up.
We've not long to capture these area's before they're gone forever.

FFXIV Panoramas - The end of the 6th Astral Era

These are awesome, Matty!

Great job, Matty! Coerthas, Thanalan, and The Black Shroud are my favorites.

I would like to see Mako factories in Bluefog, Limsa Lominsa, and Gwyr-Aen (the stone circle east of camp Crooked Fork).

Happy hunting~

Awesome idea! You should remember to turn display names off when you do these though. The 3rd one of Mor Dhona is amazing but if the names were off it would look a lot more natural.

You should get a panoramic picture of that one waterfall somewhere in Gridania where you had to pray to one of the gods. That place is gorgeous.

Thanks guys! :D

Tsukaza....oooo....wonderful idea's! I'll add them to my map of places to visit.

WiiSam, aye! I remembered about turning off the names on the last one. Completely forgot about doing it for the first few, dou. I might revisit those places and take em' again. And bloody great idea about getting the waterfall! Scribbling that one on my map now too! :3

Very, very nice!
May I ask how you create these?

I've only had limited success when stitching together multiple screenshots in Photoshop. And often, even when zoomed all the way out, I find that the vertical field of view is a bit too limited to get both Dalamud and the landscape in the shot.

I'd love to see more panoramas of Limsa Lominsa and Coerthas. ^^

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...T25moiP_FE.jpg
(this one is 8 images stitched together -- 2 rows of 4 images across)

Great pic, Mikita!

The Limsa Lominsa panoramic I'm thinking about would have to be taken from the outside, on a cliff overlooking the Thalassocracy. ;3

Thanks Mikita!
I create them using an array of about 20 or so pictures. I start facing north, then simply take screenshots in a sweeping motion from left to right, then face south and do the same. After the initial "horizon" pictures are taken, I angle the camera up, and do the same sweeps again in order to capture the sky (keeping some of the horizon in view).

As for tools, I use a tool called Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/) that then pretty much automagically stitches em' all together! Since the screenshots don't have aperture information though, you have to manually set that (60 degree's works spiffy). Then you just have it align....and tada!

I'm going to be hitting up Limsa as soon as I'm done here at the Ayther Extractors (oh look....a friendly headrip ogre! I wonder if he'd be interested in tea....).

*Scribbles down Tsukaza's location* I'm on it! XD

The Uldahn pano is siiiiiiiiiick!

Just checked these out - awesome - and thanks, and great idea! Ul'hah one is definitely the best so far. It's be nice to get something like that of the landscapes of Black Shroud and La Noscea.

On that note, one of all three nations -- themselves centered, obviously -- would showcase the nation itself, plus its environment. Like maybe looking towards Ul'dah from Black Brush, for example.

I second the /names thing, though :)

Thank you, Justice! :D
And there we go.....Ayther Factories in Northern Thanalan completed and uploaded (Pano #8)! This one was a bit harder. :X Either large angry "I'ma kill you dead" mobs in the way....or gates preventing me from even getting close. Blah!

And that makes Limsa from the outside....facing towards the city (#9)! *Yawwwwnnn*
Sleepy time for now.

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Thanks Mikita!
I create them using an array of about 20 or so pictures. I start facing north, then simply take screenshots in a sweeping motion from left to right, then face south and do the same. After the initial "horizon" pictures are taken, I angle the camera up, and do the same sweeps again in order to capture the sky (keeping some of the horizon in view).

As for tools, I use a tool called Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/) that then pretty much automagically stitches em' all together! Since the screenshots don't have aperture information though, you have to manually set that (60 degree's works spiffy). Then you just have it align....and tada!

I'm going to be hitting up Limsa as soon as I'm done here at the Ayther Extractors (oh look....a friendly headrip ogre! I wonder if he'd be interested in tea....).

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Thank you for sharing how you create these!

There are many places I'd like to capture as well. I wish we could go back and have the aurora and shooting stars, or earlier weather again (perhaps if they keep the servers up after Nov 11?). The current Dalamud is ominous and fitting of the times, but we have no clear skies anymore.

I use a gamepad and so the camera always resets to horizon level when I let go and this has been a bit of a challenge for making panoramas. Perhaps I should try it with a keyboard to see if I can angle the camera up and leave it that way while rotating left to right.

Nice stuff dude!

I really like the Mor Dhona one with dalamud creeping from behind the rocks.

No prob Mikita!
I use a gamepad too, so getting it to angle up is a bit of a challenge for me also. But the nice thing is that it doesn't have to be absolutely PERFECT! The software will just happily stitch away, and as long as you have enough of a skyline in view across the entire "sweep", you'll get a nice skyline in the final panorama. :D

Thank ya Colino! They're fun to do, lol.

These are great but would it be possible to get PNG versions (for those of us who don't mind big file sizes and would like a format that's a little less susceptible to lossy corruption)?


Edit: Also 5thPano seems to be missing :(

I'd like to see one of that circular ruins area in Black Shroud, or of the Sylph village. Also inside Tam Tara.

Also, you should do /names 'cause i think the mob names detract from the quality of the pics.

The 7th is ridiculously cool. I like how you managed to include Atomos on the side there.

Nice panoramas! The 7th and the 9th are my favorites. :)

Looks good. I like these. Keep it up :)

Thanks everyone! :D
And aye, I'll be converting them to PNG for higher res when I get the chance. Which should be sometime tonight, heh.

Ta-da! PNG's added.
I'll make some more when my linkshell event is over. ^^'

Took one from within Ul'Dah!

....aannnnddddd then goofed around with some of my LS mates in Ul'Dah and made some downright goofy pictures. XD