We've just received word from NVIDIA that Ansel now supports Aven Colony 360-degree screenshots!
Here are the instructions:
- If you're using an NVIDIA video card, make sure you have the very latest NVIDIA drivers installed, and that Aven Colony is up-to-date. If you don't have an NVIDIA video card, you'll need one to use Ansel.
- Run NvCameraConfiguration.exe. For example, this is likely to be in "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Ansel\Tools"
- Once NvCameraConfiguration.exe is running, make sure that NvCamera is enabled. You can choose your own Hotkey which you will use in the game to activate Ansel. The default is Alt+F2, but we recommend remapping this as Aven Colony uses the F2 key by default (I map to Ctrl-F11, right next to the Steam screenshot key, F12). It's helpful to configure the Snapshots Directory - that is where the Ansel screenshots will be saved!
- Run Aven Colony and use the hotkey that you defined earlier and the Ansel UI will appear. You can use WSAD plus holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse to get the camera to the perfect location.
- Set the "Capture type" to be 360 degrees and choose the resolution of the screenshot. The final size will be much smaller than 1.0GB, but you do need at least that much free space while the screenshot is being taken. Once you're happy, click "Snap." Note that Ansel may take 30 seconds or more to generate the shot.
- To view the screenshot, you can upload the image to Google Photos or to Facebook. We've found that both automatically detect that it's an Ansel screenshot and will let the viewer move the camera around the 3D scene!
If you take Ansel screenshots, be sure to tag us at @AvenColony and @MothershipTeam on Twitter and / or Facebook so we can retweet your shots!
Here are some of our prior Ansel screenshots (posted on Facebook, which has built-in panoramic screenshot support):
Hyla's Crescent - Plasma Turrets and shard storm