The Very Best ME:A Screenshot Thread (with tips)

Couple shots of Liam -

I am using TAA, yes. I haven't tried activating the camera (without pause) in cutscenes yet because they're never my priority, so I haven't seen the ghosting you're talking about.

Have you turned off motion blur? Apart from the ridiculously awesome/terrible blur I'd get on hair/Jaal's cloak when pausing during movement, it also used to introduce some artifacts on Cora's hair even when she wasn't moving - because of the subtle hair movements that would happen when she idles. 

There's no toggle for it in graphics atm (although they're looking at adding one), but you can open a new text doc in your main ME:A folder, rename it to user.cfg, and add these lines:

WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0

WorldRender.MotionBlurQuality 0

WorldRender.MotionBlurMaxSampleCount 0

Cora's hair looks better now. It might help some of the artifacts you're seeing? I'm sure the TAA and motion blur interact to make things worse than they need be.

Decided to give this a try

So, I have always looked at these types of threads and longed to be able to produce some of these shots without having to download a bunch of stuff and get a degree in 14 things to learn to run them (because I'm old, easily overwhelmed with high tech stuff and short tempered ). I know that my card is supposed to have Ansel for supported games and that Mass Effect Andromeda is supposed to be supported but, of course, it's not working.

Are there suggestions for using it? Or should I just continue to admire everyone else having fun from a distance forever? Thanks in advance for any advice.

I've never had an Nvidia card so I know next to nothing about Ansel, except that it's pretty broken in MEA and the Cinematic Tools are superior. To start out with, you really only need that one thing, the Cinematic Tools - get acquainted with it first, and then slowly try out other things like SRWE or Reshade. See the second post in this thread for an introduction to those programs, amoebae explains things really well.

Just download this and extract the files to a folder you'll easily find again. The Read Me file contains some info about the basic controls. Then start the game in administrator mode, start the tools in administrator mode, load a save and you're set.

Couple shots of Jaal -

The only shader I can't find is the one that controls the vignette. wtf? I'll keep searching. I really want to be able to get rid of it.

I have, however, found how to hide weapons (for awesome character screenshots) and a couple of other things, so I'll see if I can knock up some toggles for those. No idea what I'm doing, but it's fun.

Thank you so much, I'm really fond of how that turned out - the faded colours in the middle make it look a bit like a water colour painting. It took SO LONG to get the squadmates to position themselves correctly. (And Liam is technically facing away from the object, not towards it like he was supposed to, but it's not too noticeable on the downsized version. *wipes off sweat*)

I'm looking forward to your experiments with those toggles, even if you can't find the vignette, the weapon hiding sounds really useful.

I recognise that top one from reddit - I wondered if you were a BSNer. Good to see you here.

Testing out the tools.
Is there a way to take high-res picture of cutscene? Or better yet, pause it? I tried with the Cinematic Tool and it crashed