Shift+F2
Has anyone ever dared to try it? I would suggest that you do not unless you are running a really good computer. Heres what it does:
When you push Shift and F2 while playing minecraft, your game will seem to hang, and look like its spinning around. What it is actually doing is taking a super huge screenshot of minecraft. And when I say huge do I mean huge. About 1.8 GB Huge. The game (if it survives) will let you know that it has taken a screenshot, and you will find it in your screenshots folder. The file will be about 1.8Gb big, in a TGA format. The issue with this is, is that virtually no picture viewing program will open it. Photoshop will fail, all windows based picture editor/viewers will fail, and even more powerful viewers like IrfanView will fail too without some modifications. IrfanView will work, but you will need a program like CFF viewer to modify it to use more than 2Gb of memory. Of course the easy way is to just use GIMP. GIMP will open it, after about a 5-10 minute wait to let it process.
So what does this do? Well its a feature of minecraft that has not been finished. It has been stated by Notch in various Reddit posts (I had them open, but lost them. I might be able to find them again for a 100% accurate reference) that the feature was for taking massive scale pictures, to be used for wall prints. Basically Notch wanted to take screenshots so big, he could print the fuckers out and put them on to a fucking billboard. That big. Realistically, he just wanted some very large images he could post around on the studio walls.
How large is it? Well after about 2 hours of working with this image, I finally got something out of it. So Im about to show you some of the images from this one image. Keep in mind that to do this, I had to open the image, Print Screen my monitor to import that into paint, save the SS, and edit my desktop out to make them look nice. I have all the original SS's that I took if you wanted me to upload them. ANY quality loss in these pictures is from the PrntScrn and editing process. So first off, here are the dimensions of the image itself:
When you push Shift and F2 while playing minecraft, your game will seem to hang, and look like its spinning around. What it is actually doing is taking a super huge screenshot of minecraft. And when I say huge do I mean huge. About 1.8 GB Huge. The game (if it survives) will let you know that it has taken a screenshot, and you will find it in your screenshots folder. The file will be about 1.8Gb big, in a TGA format. The issue with this is, is that virtually no picture viewing program will open it. Photoshop will fail, all windows based picture editor/viewers will fail, and even more powerful viewers like IrfanView will fail too without some modifications. IrfanView will work, but you will need a program like CFF viewer to modify it to use more than 2Gb of memory. Of course the easy way is to just use GIMP. GIMP will open it, after about a 5-10 minute wait to let it process.
So what does this do? Well its a feature of minecraft that has not been finished. It has been stated by Notch in various Reddit posts (I had them open, but lost them. I might be able to find them again for a 100% accurate reference) that the feature was for taking massive scale pictures, to be used for wall prints. Basically Notch wanted to take screenshots so big, he could print the fuckers out and put them on to a fucking billboard. That big. Realistically, he just wanted some very large images he could post around on the studio walls.
How large is it? Well after about 2 hours of working with this image, I finally got something out of it. So Im about to show you some of the images from this one image. Keep in mind that to do this, I had to open the image, Print Screen my monitor to import that into paint, save the SS, and edit my desktop out to make them look nice. I have all the original SS's that I took if you wanted me to upload them. ANY quality loss in these pictures is from the PrntScrn and editing process. So first off, here are the dimensions of the image itself:
36450px x 17700px
If my calculations are correct, thats 645.1 megapixels
That is a big ass image. Lets see what a picture that size can do:
Again, keep in mind that these are not the original pictures, but SS's of them in GIMP. Uploading a 1.8Gb file to look at would have been insane.
This is the image at the size it was when I opened GIMP. The image is 3.1% of its original size.
Throughout this, I will be zooming in on that one sign way in the background of the image to the right.
Here is the image at 10% scaling.
Here it is at 25%scaling
Zooming in to the same image even further at 50% scaling
Finally zoomed in at 100% scaling.
You can see that the zoom is incredible. These SS's all came from one image. There was not multiple in game pictures taken. There was the one massive shot, and these pictures are small portions of that one shot.
Here is a little extra comparison
If my calculations are correct, thats 645.1 megapixels
That is a big ass image. Lets see what a picture that size can do:
Again, keep in mind that these are not the original pictures, but SS's of them in GIMP. Uploading a 1.8Gb file to look at would have been insane.
This is the image at the size it was when I opened GIMP. The image is 3.1% of its original size.
Throughout this, I will be zooming in on that one sign way in the background of the image to the right.
Here is the image at 10% scaling.
Here it is at 25%scaling
Zooming in to the same image even further at 50% scaling
Finally zoomed in at 100% scaling.
You can see that the zoom is incredible. These SS's all came from one image. There was not multiple in game pictures taken. There was the one massive shot, and these pictures are small portions of that one shot.
Here is a little extra comparison
Originally Posted by Jakob
