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Hugin for panoramas: GW2 edition
Wednesday 6th of June 2018
A long while back I wrote a guide to using the free panorama software Hugin with World of Warcraft screenshots. This guide is basically just an updated version of that, only using Guild Wars 2 as the screenshot source since I don’t play WoW any more. Get Hugin Hugin can be downloaded from its SourceForge page: https://hugin.sourceforge.io/ Install it in the usual manner – the default options are…
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[WoW] Tracking Buff Power With WeakAuras2 Progress Bars
Saturday 21st of February 2015
NOTE: this was written in 2015, so it’s probably out of date now. Several classes in World of Warcraft have a buff or debuff they can apply, of which it would be useful to know the power. For example, fire mages have their Ignite debuff, which determines how much damage Combustion will do when cast, so it’s important to keep track of the current Ignite damage in order to make best use of C…
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[photography] DPI is easy
Wednesday 5th of February 2014
Really it is, and yet I see so many people get confused about the concept. In a way it’s understandable, given the amount of misinformation out there, so here’s my attempt to explain it as simply as possible. DPI is about physical size This is the essential detail. Everything else stems from this, the concept of physical dimensions. It’s part of the name: dots per inch . A digital image can’t h…
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[WoW] Guide: using Hugin for panoramic screenshots
Thursday 17th of October 2013
Quick link: Hugin Panoramas are cool – they show a much wider/taller view than it’s possible to capture in one shot, and do so in a way that doesn’t have the same weird rectilinear or fisheye distortion you get from regular wideangle or fisheye lenses. Here’s an example of what I mean: Trial of the Crusader panorama If you actually go to the instance and stand in the same spot, you’ll notice r…
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