antariies:

i don’t know if this counts as a hack or a tip or whatever, but i’d like to share a piece of advice that i haven’t seen anyone else talk about yet so?? here we go

if you’re anything like me, you like taking nice pics of your characters! too bad the camera in gw2 can only zoom in so close before you’re looking at the background behind your character’s head.

you can adjust the ‘field of view’ slider….

but maybe that’s just not close enough for you! you’re in the market for magazine quality headshots!

the game won’t let you zoom in any further than that, so the only option left is to get creative 😀

find something with a hitbox and position your character in front of it

don’t stand too close, but not too far either. it’s different for everyone, so play around a bit with the postioning. turning on ‘rp walk’ is super helpful for adjusting your character just those few inches!

also: make sure your character is facing a light source. it can be hard to find one when you’re trying to face a wall at the same time, but i believe in you!

having something solid in front of you is important because when you spin the camera around, it’ll collide with the hitbox, forcing the camera to zoom in wayyyy closer than it normally would.

and when that happens….

you get really nice shot like this! look at that close-up!!

(you’ll probably have to mess around with your camera options again, especially the horizontal positioning)

and this last part is completely optional, but a little photoshop goes a long way

(when in doubt, just gaussian blur the background)