[ChicletPrime]

okay, two minutes and a reddit thread and it looks like you CAN run Reshade using a bunch of hoops through Bluestacks. I am going to organize some pictures for the forum and then tackle that while i eat dinner.  /wishes self a bunch of luck.

i can tell you that Bluestacks wants to use my native resolution of 1080 x 1920 and it sticks to that consistently. maybe there's a way to force a higher resolution? hmm.

EDIT

could it... could it be that simple?

before attempting the esoteric Reshade idea (which I am still going to try and do if only to mess with alpha channels and see if its possible to extract out the boys from their backgrounds and then REALLY have some fun in a graphic program) i went into the emulator settings and just cranked it to double at 3840 x 2160, grabbed the same Sylus template from last time and yeah... its saving the screenshots at double my native resolution.

links below to the original res and the "upscaled" res - are you seeing a difference? these are linked to the bigger versions.

MORE EDIT

Got Reshade running as well, seems okay. Applied a light antialias filter on it and it made a little bit of difference when zooming in, particularly in the flower edges so will leave that on for now and we'll see how the screenshots look going forward with it.

[Coldsaturn]

Even just looking at the preview here there's a noticeable difference between the before and after. The higher resolution is definitely better. If reshade doesn't make your emulator lag, then all the better!

[ChicletPrime]

played this morning (as usual) and i noticed nothing in the way of lag except for when i had to dump to the background of the emulator, where it went a little wonky trying to scale from big resolution to regular resolution and back again. didn't crash though, i didn't see any screen tearing or graphic artefacts so this is now our (uh, mine, but this is communist lads) new default.

i don't know that i care for extra antialiasing - Reshade has presets for four different styles from heavy to light, and even the light one kind of fuzzes things out in the UI more than I care for and I can't tell if it makes that much of a realistic difference in the screenshots.

if its okay with you, i may set up another test run of three layouts at oversized, oversized with light antialias and oversize with heavy antialias and you can hopefully tell me what looks best on your side.

as a silver lining with all this messing around, i am immediately going to run another capture on Total Blockade when I have an hour and a half not dedicated to anything else and get squeezably big screenshots of it. (this is why nothing gets done. i have too much of fan overdose so i paddle from project to project making chipmunk noises and advancing things by inches).

[Coldsaturn]

Yeah with Reshade you have to be careful because AA will blur things. I constantly have to tweak it manually in The Sims 4 or I constantly feel like I'm going cross-eyed. Based on which reshade version you've downloaded and with which effects, there should be a UI mask that should help you with that. But the most direct thing would also be to turn on Reshade when you need to take pictures and turn it off when you don't need it.

Do all the test runs you need!
I don't want to push you into trying to fix something that isn't broken for you though. My issue with the pictures you were posting is entirely for your sake because if we can find a way to make you see the lads (ha!) in all their glory, then that would be 10 times better. But maybe it's not an issue for you since in-game screenshots still look amazing, so this is a glint-exclusive problem!

(I totally get you. I should be grinding missions to get diamonds and instead I'm here taking pictures)

[ChicletPrime]

i need to update Zayne's avatar again, I am no longer pleased with my last attempt :P

the work, she is never ending.

in further news, I think we're back to baseline again. I've gone through all the new 4.0 offerings for the low hanging diamonds, finished the wedding event, i've gotten my 60 days Workout achievements on everybody but Caleb, so now I'm back to "everything else", which is trying to advance the Core Hunts, the new Flower Combat Thing, working on my little fics, the Mirror thing and grabbing the fancy companion ardent oath animations.

[ChicletPrime]

okay, i think i found my girl for Sylus. i ended up gravitating towards Buffy The Vampire Slayer and couldn't make myself climb out. i made her resonating eye a little less obvious.

---

[Coldsaturn]

I like this and her so so so so much!!! You also gave in and bought the Catch-22 outfit I see lol
Relatable, she really looks good in it
Buffy!MC matches Sylus' personality so well. It's also giving me unholy thoughts about vampire Sylus, but that's a topic for another thread

[ChicletPrime]

/mumbles something about discretionary funds

is that the catch-22 outfit? nice! it just happened to be the only one in the store that i felt did Sylus justice, considering i only like two of his actual outfits that i have, and one of them is the universal black leather jacket for everyone.

[ChicletPrime]

i am so sorry to keep making you look at me, but ... look at us. we are so ready to fall off a cliff together I can't stand it.

[Coldsaturn]

Keep making me look! Keep making me look!!
I love how with this lighting it looks like your MC has black hair and red accents at the roots and tips.
Caleb is obsessed with her and with reason.