There’s a lot of good information there, but I’m really not liking the way everything gets organized into a single page :-\
It reads like one giant wall of text, and you are bombarded with information about all sort of things while scrolling down to find a section.
I’m assuming there’s no way to have headings collapsed by default the way they are in the table of contents? That would make it more pleasing to read, and I’d probably write some official stuff there.
And I’ll be damned if this is not the most meta thing on all of Wikipedia
I’m considering making a Wiki of my own, since I picked up 1 or 2 patrons this month and that could pay for hosting.
@Aemony: Would you contribute if I hosted a dedicated Wiki for Special K on my own servers? I want something more advanced and easier to spread information across multiple pages in an intuitive way.
Also, anyone know a web developer I could bounce some ideas off of or possibly hire … or, even better, is actually a user of Special K / member of these forums?
I really want to get a backend infrastructure together for users to share HDR profiles for games, to exchange .jxr screenshots and also centralize texture / shader mod packs, possibly even upload their Special K config files to a cloud. … and I don’t want that backend to be Nexus
^^^ This all was supposed to be provided for me by Steam, now I have to build it myself.
Yeah, I’d definitely contribute to the wiki. Seems the structure would be more appropriate as well to separate various aspects from one another but still have them easily findable. God knows the PCGW article have gotten long.
No idea if we have any web developers here on these forums, but it wouldn’t surprise us if we do.
As to PCGW, over there we hire snuxoll (snuxoll (Stefan Nuxoll) · GitHub, https://twitter.com/snuxoll) to act as the sysadmin for the whole infrastructure. While he haven’t finished developing it yet, he have mentioned in the past how he had plans for developing a repository-like platform for PCGW that would allow users upload, share, and download mods of the games we cover — something related to your own plans. You can probably get in touch with him over Twitter or Discord (through PCGW’s Discord server) if you so desire.
Yeah, that sounds almost exactly like what I’m thinking of. Still kills me every time I think about the fallout with Steam, because that was a perfect arrangement that was convenient for me as the developer, users who want to share content, and Valve who wants reasons for people to stay on their platform
I’ve begun the guide overhaul, which is the reason I was wishing I had a Wiki for this It’s definitely easier to format stuff in these forums than on GitHub or Steam, but it still is far from ideal.
Xbox Game Bar is obviously the worst of the three, but I’m inclined to believe whatever technique the random app is using … it might just be better than both.
It’s there for HUDless screenshots, but for any game where someone has used the mod toolkit to find the HUD shaders, you can turn the HUD off by pressing Ctrl + Shift + H
As for the OLED thing… don’t worry about it. Burn-in is impossible. I have 5 OLEDs, only one of them has burn-in (from its calibration service menu). The others have over 5,000 hours of use as computer monitors and are still flawless
WebP is really starting to annoy me. Supposedly it’s capable of storing HDR, but there’s no real documentation on the format to suggest how to do that.
I know browsers have support for WebP and virtually none have support for JPEG-XR, so it’s a no-brainer, but unless I find some quality documentation I’d say there’s no browser-friendly HDR file format for still images.
Hmm, I wonder if maybe WebGL is the answer? I can probably do the decoding myself and then use WebGL to render the HDR screenshot in a browser.
Sounds great, i’m actually thinking about ordering an LG CX for use as a PC monitor, so this reassures me.
Also, kind of off-topic, but would you consider the LG OLEDs good for HDR content? I know you previously said that HDR under 1000 nits doesn’t work too well, and the LG CX having a peak brightness of 700 nits is my main worry.
CX is slightly dimmer and has the issue all OLED have where they lose colour reproduction at high brightness levels. However their unmatched with their pixel level light output so only topping out around 600nits isnt ideal by HDR specs until you include OLED contrast which offsets it entirely
Minimum brightness and contrast ratios : This is probably the most interesting one, as it’s great for consumers and shows the different players here at work. There are two possible minimum specs. A minimum brightness of 1,000 nits, along with a black level of a maximum of 0.05 nits (20,000:1 contrast ratio), or a minimum brightness of 540 nits, along with a black level of a maximum of 0.0005 (1,080,000:1).
Personally, having experience of both an OLED (C7) and a high-end Samsung QLED with local dimming, I would choose the OLED every time. Yes, the max brightness on the Samsung is gorgeous and looks insane when in play, but the true black of the OLED cannot be overstated. I ■■■■■■■ love OLED and if I had a bit more trust in it for computer usage I’d thrown my current QLED monitor and pick up an OLED instead.
It’s definitely easier to format stuff in these forums than on GitHub or Steam, but it still is far from ideal.
