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Screenshot techniques | Tiny planet shots
By Alfredo Garcia
In this guide i will show you how to create a tiny planet shot by using Microsoft image composite editor. This works with every other game, while it has a free cam or an ego perspective.
   
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First things first
The software i am using in this guide can be downloaded here[research.microsoft.com] (Microsoft image composite editor)

This guide will work on every game, while it has an free cam mode or an ego perspective.
Step #1 - The material
To create a nice looking tiny planet you need to find a scenery with alot of details. The simple reason: Ms ICE works better and do less errors. Also your planet looks way more interesting.

If you found a great spot, stand in the middle and search for a fix point. Now do a 360° rotation and hit F12 any time you think its time for another shot. The aim should be to create a 360° image of the scene.
After you hit your fix point again - stop. Now look 45° up in the sky and do the same. Now 45° from the middle to the floor and 360° rotation again. It does not matter whether you spin with or counterclockwise. All in all now you should have the material for three 360° panoramas.

Now search for the folder with the screenshots. Copy the files you did for the planet shot and put them in a new folder.



Step #2 - Load and Stitch
Now open ICE after you installed it.
Click at "New Panorama from images"




Now select all screenshots from the new folder you create before.
Right after you can see your imported images, click on "STITCH" to start creating a panorama.




This will take now a while.

Step #3 - Projection and Crop
After stitching is complete you will notice the projection options on the right side. Select "Stereographic"




Now you can transform the picture by clicking in the middle and spin it around the x-axis.
Do this after the picture looks like a planet.





Once you're satisfied with the result click on "CROP". If there are "gray holes" like in the example, dont worry, there will be options to fix this.





Step #4 - Auto complete and export
To fix the "gray holes" you can select the option "auto complete" after click on "CROP". This can take a while.






















The result should look like this now. You can change the size of the picture now with the white frame.




If you are happy with your result, you are ready now for the finale step. Click on "EXPORT"




Now just select the quality to 100% and click on "export to disk..."




How to upload ? and last words
The exported file will now called something like that: 20160927200211_1_stitch
To upload your planet and share it with the community I would like to refer to this guide from uniQ

Also credit goes to SubjectPs who told me about this nice program.

I am looking forward to hopefully see more tiny planet shots in the future.

Cheers :)


42 Comments
BeND4R1N0 22 Nov, 2019 @ 4:11pm 
this is a pretty cool guide bro thanks for the info
Alfredo Garcia  [author] 6 Oct, 2017 @ 1:00am 
Yea :D well, it was a open secret xD
Keks 6 Oct, 2017 @ 12:47am 
Very well explained. Perfect. (Now I know your secret)
Alfredo Garcia  [author] 2 May, 2017 @ 11:40am 
Thanks RETRO
🌴𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙊🌴 2 May, 2017 @ 11:39am 
Gucci guide fam :emofdr:
Alfredo Garcia  [author] 11 Feb, 2017 @ 9:25am 
wow thanks for the words and yea ICE is a fantastic program. Hope u can make some great rl planet shots :)
Day 11 Feb, 2017 @ 9:23am 
what a brilliant idea! ICE is one of my favorit programs but to use it for tiny planet shots, this is new to me (probably I try it with real life photos, too)
Ronnie 23 Jan, 2017 @ 12:03pm 
Definitely going to try this, looks great!
hans 15 Dec, 2016 @ 12:55pm 
im too lazy, should i do it?
Alfredo Garcia  [author] 1 Dec, 2016 @ 1:46pm 
nice :) if u have questions, ask or add me :)