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All of these are good and have a unique feel to them, I like how unconventional you went with them. But this one in particular caught my eye, something about the color contrast and the geometry makes it quite striking.

 

Maybe they'll say the entries were all so good that they had to pick and include first, second and third place winners for the SH reward decorations :)

I really hope so. People have taken so many awesome pictures, it would be nice to get to see the several best ones for each planet, rather than just one, and for those people to get recognized for it.

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I wish we could see Thumb nails here. It's a lot of trouble to click on all of these.:D

Indeed. I thought after I spent hours uploading and then linking my pictures in the posts, that I probably should have made them into an album and posted one link :rolleyes: Captain Hindsight moment!

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I wish we could see Thumb nails here. It's a lot of trouble to click on all of these.:D

 

10 years into the game, and honestly this has been a gripe of mine since day one! A lot of forums don’t like to deal with image posting directly because it can be abused, but gosh it would make a lot of conversations more fun and useful.

 

Also, loving all the new posts coming through! Glad so many were just as excited. I want to go through and pick out some faves again when I get the time to sit down and format the post.

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I love these! People did a really nice job--I don't know how the judges are going to be able to choose!

 

I had fun doing these and was pretty pleased with how a few of them turned out. I did lots of waiting to capture the right moment when some particular sky animation was activating, which I see some other people did (e.g., those three ships on Ord Mantell). Maybe the funniest part of the experience doing these screenshots was sending my companion to kill NPCs that spawned in my frame. I'd be setting up a good shot, standing in just the right place, facing just the right way, and then some droid would respawn and start cruising across my screen. Shae, please escort that droid off my set immediately. Anyway, here are mine (the links on the planet names are the ones I submitted):

 

One link for all the ones I submitted here: https://imgur.com/a/nPROLvW

More on each individual planet below:

 

Makeb

 

I have a favorite spot on Makeb that's a little off the beaten path, so I at least hoped that this was a unique view. Waited for the timing of both ships to line up, which took some doing. Here's another pretty spot that I didn't submit: https://imgur.com/HmTdWsk

 

Tatooine

 

The first thing I thought of hearing "best view on Tatooine" was the Jawa balloon, which I see others did as well. I wanted the balloon shadow in the image, and here I got the Tusken Raiders, bantha, and the village. Here's another shot from a moment later, which had a closer view--I agonized over this but decided my personal preference was for the former's angle and composition. I also took this shot which I knew I wouldn't submit, but came to mind as well: The "Ultimate" View on Tatooine!

 

Ossus

 

Water in the game looks so pretty, but it doesn't really reflect the scene above, just some set thing for a given planet (or maybe region). The most annoying I saw was when I was at a secluded waterfall on Makeb, and the pool beneath showed a very detailed reflection of a Makeb estate :confused: Anyway, I thought the reflection in this water shot was good enough not to be distracting, and I liked the lightning flashing in the distance over the ruins.

 

Tython

 

Tython has so many beautiful places with ruins mixed among gorgeous foliage and streams, with mountains in the background. This is the one I went with. Here's a different shot that I thought was fun, too: https://imgur.com/5QKsBtW

 

Zakuul

 

I really liked the palace at night and the view from that area, but it was hard to find a way to get the elements I liked into one frame. This was my best attempt. Here's another image from the same area: https://imgur.com/g0Nt3oU

 

Yavin

 

I saw at least one other person thought of the Force ghosts. I also took this shot of a waterfall and rainbow, but decided to submit an image with something more distinctly Yavin-y.

 

Ord Mantell

 

I knew I wanted the lava in the image, since that's what I think of on Ord Mantell. Here's another shot I took: https://imgur.com/ENSHK4u

 

Mek-Sha

 

I tried to get something highlighting the cool lights in the market as well as the lights of the shield in the sky. I'm not sure the still image really captures how cool it seems in game.

 

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Tatooine

 

I also took this shot which I knew I wouldn't submit, but came to mind as well: The "Ultimate" View on Tatooine!

 

Is that a view from inside the Sarlacc pit? If it is, 10/10 for unique Tatooine vista! I really like your one of the waterfall and frogs for Makeb. I nearly submitted one of a cave scene with a frog in but went with Toborro's Estate in the end as I really like that building.

 

Here were my submissions. I would say I was happy with most of them.

 

One link for the lot.

 

https://imgur.com/a/bc0Pb0V

You win this thread for doing what I failed to think of and put all your shots in an album. Also, they are all great! My favourite of yours is Mek-Sha. I can't work out how you managed to get that angle. Were you on a taxi? Or was some mad jumping/climbing involved? My second favourite of yours is Makeb because you have the clouds in it. I was determined to get the clouds in my screenshot too.

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I can't work out how you managed to get that angle. Were you on a taxi? Or was some mad jumping/climbing involved?

 

No mad jumping, just a really good angle from one of the taxi arms sticking out from the boardwalk. Can't even begin to count the times I fell off that bloody catwalk trying to get the pic tho :rolleyes: .

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No mad jumping, just a really good angle from one of the taxi arms sticking out from the boardwalk. Can't even begin to count the times I fell off that bloody catwalk trying to get the pic tho :rolleyes: .

Haha! I think all of us went to some mad extremes to get good screenshots and ended up falling/being eaten by world bosses a few times :D I hope BW appreciates the level of effort we all went to for this competition.

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Is that a view from inside the Sarlacc pit? If it is, 10/10 for unique Tatooine vista!

Thanks--Yes, it's the Sarlacc pit: the view while being slowly digested. I was amused by the thought of submitting it, but while it is representative of one aspect of Tatooine, it's not particularly pretty or complex. So I went with the view from the balloon. But it could have been a fun decoration to have :D

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Thanks--Yes, it's the Sarlacc pit: the view while being slowly digested. I was amused by the thought of submitting it, but while it is representative of one aspect of Tatooine, it's not particularly pretty or complex. So I went with the view from the balloon. But it could have been a fun decoration to have :D

Most of us went with the Balloon, the Twin Suns or the Oasis for Tatooine, however I hope someone entered a view of the entire Sarlacc Pit (a couple of you here had it as your second choice but didn't enter it). It wouldn't surprise me if a Sarlacc shot wins for uniqueness.

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Hi, here were my submitted screenshots :

Yavin 4

https://zupimages.net/viewer.php?id=21/44/4mxm.jpg

I really like this view with shot of the ships' trails streaking across the sky. Is from the planet or the Stronghold?

 

I love this one. You didn't submit it? Pity as it's great. I'm trying to work out where you had to climb to (or taxi to) to get this shot.

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I really like this view with shot of the ships' trails streaking across the sky. Is from the planet or the Stronghold?

 

 

I love this one. You didn't submit it? Pity as it's great. I'm trying to work out where you had to climb to (or taxi to) to get this shot.

 

For yavin it's on the planet, on first base where you arrive first. Go on rep side, and try to climb on the ship. you need jugg & duel to push up to the top of the wings. You can also go on the tower if you are jugg, as you can "jump" to the pnj on top of the tower.

 

For korriban, it's same but harder push & phase walk combination. You need to climb from the ship that allow first arrival on fleet. there is a radar, the picture is taken from top of the wall at his back. I didn't send this one, but the jugg who helped me climb there did with a similar angle. I prefered another one as they will cut it in different format, this one is more interesting in its complete original ratio.

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I also think this Yavin shot is really cool with the trailing ships, and the same for Hutta with the blaster fire. Great shots that have something unique to them that I haven't seen in any nominations so far. Everyone's pictures including my own are mostly or comepletely static, but these trails of light make yours come alive!

 

 

I love the surreal feeling created by seeing that "floating" plateau in the middle of the image.

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Now that the contest is OVER: https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9983164#edit9983164 .... As promised, i will post my aforementioned 1st choice submitted entries that BIOWARE didn't prefer as much as the 'winners' :

 

HUTTA: https://i.imgur.com/azKloff.jpg

KORRIBAN: https://i.imgur.com/6cdz1xX.jpg (no char. models)

MAKEB: https://i.imgur.com/G7rEb32.jpg

MEK-SHA: https://i.imgur.com/mg5e7QV.jpg (no char. models)

ORD MANTELL: https://i.imgur.com/TzbpiSM.jpg

OSSUS: https://i.imgur.com/Ej3VEfO.jpg

TATOOINE: https://i.imgur.com/PWEzanq.jpg (no char. models)

TYTHON: https://i.imgur.com/StOQfvx.jpg

YAVIN4: https://i.imgur.com/Bwqre79.jpg

ZAKUUL: https://i.imgur.com/DzB8G1g.jpg (no char. models)

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Here is my uncropped Ossus screenshot that won.

The other screenshots I submitted were

  • Hutta (behind the old Mukworks at the edge of the map)
  • Korriban (in the corner of one of the early tombs)
  • Makeb (inside the cave at the centre of the Telemur Mesa)
  • Mek-Sha (I think this was at Brozo's Well)
  • Ord Mantell (the view from an island at the edge of the map)
  • Tatooine (the northern part of Jundland looking south towards Derivad Outpost)
  • Tython (the bottom of the steps of the lightsabre forge at the end of the Consular story on Tython)
  • Yavin 4 (inside the cave of the stronghold)
  • Zakuul (the entrance of Vaylin's palace)

 

Some I did not submit but really liked were

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