Level 58 - Master Assassin

Another productive session on last night.

Took out a dog fighting ring near Riften and also cleared out Honeyside for the thieves guild. Additionally, found and joined the Dawnguard and have my first mission with them.

I got interested in taking some nice screen shots as well and discovered that you can essentially unlock the camera view using the console.

Basically you open the console by using the ~ key.

You then type

tfc 1

This turns on the roaming camera. The game pauses and lets you roam around using the ASDF keys and you can position the camera to get the perfect shot. I was surprised just at how detailed things could get doing this.

Opening the console once more and typing

tfc 0

Will turn the feature off again and revert the game back to having locked to your character.

Apparently the command tm will remove the HUD and give you a nice clean clutter free camera shot. I haven't tried this as yet.

I bound these commands to my MMORPG Razer Naga mouse to the side buttons using the macro feature. I can now see something and quickly get the camera feature activated, take a good picture, and then turn the feature back off and snap back into the game.

I noted that this command can be used as a cheat as you can use the free camera roaming ability to look around corners, and scope out a place before you actually go there. I certainly will not be doing anything like that. I am simply using the feature to get screen good screen shots. If anything, the distraction could end up fatal if I stupidly try and look for that perfect opportunity to take a snap shot rather than my health getting damaged.

Here's three samples of what I captured last night.

Picture 1 shows Rastas drawing back the bow and aiming it down a road. I like this as the level of detail is simply amazing. You can see the bow string, the position of the fingers drawing the bow back, even the position of his eye.

Picture 2 shows Rastas in his full glass armour inside the Dawnguard citadel. I'll look to get a better pic of this with the HUD off perhaps at a more scenic location.

 

Picture 3 shows Rastas assassinating some poor bandit in a cut scene death. Note the blistered skin on the face of the bandit. This comes form a mod called "Burn Freeze Shock Effects v3.3" A very nice mod which obviously does what it says on bodies. The flame burning this poor man has made him nice and crispy. Note also the blood spray out. Cut scenes deteriorate the high definition graphics due to the way the work. Using the roaming camera here with my macro'ed mouse buttons simply pauses the game. I can't reposition the camera. I'll try and get a cleaner shot of this type of cut scene where I remove the shield and it can get in the way of a good pic.