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Community Crunch Contests: 63 - NEW NVIDIA ANSEL CONTEST!


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Hey guys!

ARK NVIDIA Ansel Photography Contest

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[SUPER RES VERSION]

This weekly screenshot competition asks players to take in-game photographs from either ARK: Survival Evolved or our new desert themed expansion pack ARK: Scorched Earth using NVIDIA Ansel, and meet the category requirements listed below.

Winners will be announced during ARK’s regular “Community Crunch” blog post. Each winner (3) will receive $100 each. Want to enter? ARK-Ansel screenshot entries should be e-mailed to anselcontest@studiowildcard.com

If you need a place to upload a file for the contest, make use of Wetransfer which will allow up to 2gb for free! :)

Three Categories

  • Super Resolution: These should be taken at 8x Super Resolution. Players can optionally use Depth of Field effects accessible in Spectator mode by pressing the [Delete] key.
  • Panoramic 360 Stereoscopic 3D: These should be taken at 4x Super Resolution,  in 360 Stereoscopic 3D mode. We will crop them to 2D for web display, while also providing the 3D version for viewing within VR display. Check out your 360 Stereo results on your HMD or on your Android Phone with NVIDIA VR Viewer 
  • Freeform: Any settings, whacky and creative use of Ansel filters are encouraged. Adding humorous titles/captions in Photoshop is also acceptable for this category!

Ansel is a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots.  Compose a shot from any position, adjust with post-process filters, capture HDR images in high fidelity formats, and share the screenshots in 360 via a smartphone, PC or VR headset. Learn more about these features in the Ansel Technology page and the NVIDIA blog.

How to run NVIDIA Ansel

First of all, you'll want to make sure you're running the latest Nvidia Geforce Drivers - so head over to http://www.geforce.com/ and get downloading!

Once setup and ready to go, right click ARK: Survival Evolved in your steam library and you'll see the option to Launch ARK with NVIDIA Ansel

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Select this and head into a single player game, regardless of the map or the mod. Once you're in game, you can immediately press ALT + F2 to get into Ansel Photography mode and start taking snaps.

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or you can type in the following command in the console:

cheat enablespectator

Once that is enabled, hit your DELETE key and it'll open the Depth of Field Options menu where you can play around with the games DOF.

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Then hit ALT+F2 and take some awesome Ansel photography!

Here's a little tip from Jesse:
 

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You can also type "enablespectator true" in the console to fly around before you take your shot, and hit the "Home" key to level your camera if you want to keep people from feeling sick on a 360 stereo VR screenshot. ;)

ARKitect!

This is an award given to Survivors to celebrate the amazing structures you build. These bases are judge based upon a number of different factors such as their creativity, uniqueness, how fun of a base it is, the difficulty of building it, the functionality it provides and much more! At the end of each week, the winners and runner ups will be featured in our #ARKitect section of the Community Crunch and will be awarded cash prizes! 

Note: We've had a lot of requests regarding the use of mods - go for it! We'd love to see how mods have influenced your bases

LIMITED ONE-TIME CONTEST: The Center Boss Fight!

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For Official server The Center players, we're giving away $1000 cash, $500 to the first Xbox tribe and another $500 to the first PC tribe to beat both bosses on an Official PVP server. 

Screenshot proof of the pause menu in the boss arena including server name, as well as the items received from defeating the bosses must be provided! You can upload your images to our forums, and write a comment down below with the screenshots. Good luck!

ARKVideo

This contest will be open for all types of video be they funny, epic, scenic, stories, whatever inspires you. Just a general reminder that they should remain safe for work, think of the children! So send us in your videos and we cannot wait to watch them! We're really interested in seeing the latest video creations you guys have put together - so show us something fresh! :)

Uploading the images

Please upload the images to the gallery section of our New Community Hub - you can create your own album and directly link us to that or attach it to your post! Please remember to post your entry to this thread specifically! If you're not able to upload directly to the gallery, don't sweat as imgur will work fine too!

http://survivetheark.com/index.php?/gallery/

Prizes

Will start getting in touch with our latest batch of winners, expect a pm on survivetheark if you're a first time winner! - if you're a repeat winner, don't sweat it'll be handled automatically!

Thanks guys!

Looking forward to seeing the entries!

All the best,

Wildcard Jat

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When you have a light source placed in your house like a fireplace for instance and it burns it shines through the walls which makes the house kind of useless regarding the walls and the physics. And also when entering a house there is not really a benefit when it comes to hiding from weather (at least visually). So my question is: Do you think about giving the houses a more realistic use in terms of making the rain not going through the ceilings and keeping the warmth inside the house? And benefits upon hiding from the fog on the island or other things (for instance keeping the fog outside the house!)? Or another e.g. the air conditioner has a certain range but reducing that to the house when placed within is just more REALISTIC.

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3 minutes ago, SurvivalArtist said:

When you have a light source placed in your house like a fireplace for instance and it burns it shines through the walls which makes the house kind of useless regarding the walls and the physics. And also when entering a house there is not really a benefit when it comes to hiding from weather. So my question is: Do you think about giving the houses a real use in terms of making the rain not going through the ceilings and keeping the warmth inside the house? And benefits upon hiding from the fog on the island or other things (for instance keeping the fog outside the house!)?

This is not the place for these kinds of queries, but I'm answering anyway... (perhaps a mod can move this somewhere else?)

The light does pass through the walls of the house, but this doesn't make them useless, it just means you can't hide the light easily.

There is absolutely a benefit from entering a house. If you have a door, ceiling and walls, you will get a small house symbol in the upper right corner of your screen which indicates a buff to your hypothermal and hyperthermal insulation. Additionally, when this buff is applied you will no longer be subject to the effects of weather, including rain and fog.

I would suggest revising the build of your house to make sure you have this buff active as it sounds as though your building is not effective. It must have a door and ceilings for the buff to be active.

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lets keep this about the Crunch Contests please. all questions are more than welcome though...if you can't find information on your topic using the search function then i invite you to start your own thread in the forum related to your topic ie: game suggestions, troubleshooting, etc. you can also ask your questions for the next Ark Digest, just search for it.

hopefully i can drag myself away from SE long enough this weekend to play with Ansel, looks like an awesome tool!

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1 hour ago, Squidge Meister said:

This is not the place for these kinds of queries, but I'm answering anyway... (perhaps a mod can move this somewhere else?)

The light does pass through the walls of the house, but this doesn't make them useless, it just means you can't hide the light easily.

There is absolutely a benefit from entering a house. If you have a door, ceiling and walls, you will get a small house symbol in the upper right corner of your screen which indicates a buff to your hypothermal and hyperthermal insulation. Additionally, when this buff is applied you will no longer be subject to the effects of weather, including rain and fog.

I would suggest revising the build of your house to make sure you have this buff active as it sounds as though your building is not effective. It must have a door and ceilings for the buff to be active.

Well I do have that symbol but the fog for instance is still in the house and it just doesnt look realistic if the source shines through the walls (it is of course okay if it goes through a glass window). I am actually more implying that the visuals are just not good yet (rain through ceiling?)

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5 hours ago, SurvivalArtist said:

Well I do have that symbol but the fog for instance is still in the house and it just doesnt look realistic if the source shines through the walls (it is of course okay if it goes through a glass window). I am actually more implying that the visuals are just not good yet (rain through ceiling?)

Rain through the ceiling was fixed at one point, seems to have crept up again.

But yeah, this is a thread devoted to contest entries my friend.

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Not much in the dossier department this time, Jat. Just everybody's favorite armored digging crocodile, Armadillosuchus
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=761964157

Also
there was this I worked a little hard on. If this could make it into Crunch, that would be amazing.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=751932518

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Hi @Jat

Was hoping to check in and get a response as to any update on the Crunch Prizes or if there is intention to send them still o: ? Looking back as far as not having received anything since Crunch #55 and I know some others have been hoping to get some sort of info and starting to worry a bit.

Thanks
-Wolf

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I've emailed my ANSEL submissions, but for the sake of them here, this is them:

 

SUPER RESOLUTION ( ENTRY 1 )
http://www.gamerperfection.com/HighRes%201.jpg

SUPER RESOLUTION ( ENTRY 2 )
http://www.gamerperfection.com/HighRes%202.jpg

PANORAMIC 360 STEREOSCOPIC 3D
http://www.gamerperfection.com/360%201.jpg

 

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