[Trooper]

 Problems with pictures & family albums.

[Chandria]

Re: Problems with pictures & family albums.

[Trooper]

Thanks Chandria.

I'll have to try that, I've seen pictures others have take from that angle and it would be great for my photo stories. I guess the other problem might be something to for others to be aware of if they like creating stories too. What comes with the game just doesn't seem to work too well So I've started using XP's Picture & Fax viewer. But, unlike the original game there just isn't any real organization to how they are saved it seems. So I guess all the family stories are better created and left outside the game.

I love creating stories for my sims, I guess for me it's more the whole imagination thing as, in my mind, my families all have their stories, who they are and what they want out of life (I mean beyond what actually happens in the game). And I often take tons of pictures, a hold over from learning photography, you can take a whole roll of pictures to only get one or two that are "perfect".

This is where I find my pictures:
C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\N002(whatever one you want to look at)\Storytelling

I also found out that if you go into the settings while in the game you can change the size and quality of the pictures.

As to the videos, I've seen some really unbelievable ones on U-tube. But it's just totally beyond me

Thanks again Chandria

[Fazed]

For the camera, pause the game and hit the TAB on the keyboard, it takes some playing around with but you can get amazing shots with it.

[Trooper]

Thanks Fazed

I knew there was a trick to it, just not what. Thanks so much luv!

[amadeus451]

Dang, I didn't know about the Tab key. And here I've been taking up to 20 minutes to line up a shot.

can't help about the video, either. My processor is too slow for making videos. Although I did upgrade my video card and RAM... *rushes off to make a Sim video*

[kimmyfrmtx]

A day late as always

There is a way to set the numbers on the keypad for certain angles/shots. I can look up how to do it since I have forgotten but I found it very useful in some situations. Like I line up the perfect shot but realize I need to add more light or move something out of the background.

I think it is control and the # you wish to assign it to, like control 2.

I rarely use the ingame camera for pictures. I much prefer using the printscreen command along with another program to save them. (I will look up the name when I get home). This is also better for organization since I can select where I want the pics saved.

I then crop the pics to size and content, they turn out much better for me.

[Trooper]

Aw Kimmy

I have to agree your method might be the best for organizing photo stories because of the disorganized way the game saves them. I have a really old print key/print screen program that still works with xp so I think I'm going to adopt this.

To start getting together a photo story I want to do I had to go through close to 700 pictures to find them all. While I was at it I sorted all of them into 7 folders for each of the families or story lines to save me from having to do that again.

But looking forward to see the information on camera angles, because that sounds like something I could really use. Thanks Kimmy