Image Contributions - 
Contributions - Rules page
Created by
Ylva
On our pages we offer in-game screenshots to illustrate items in their natural environment - in Trove game!
- Uploaded images should always show an item, an object or a collectable in an unobstructed and clear way.
There should be no question to what object is displayed or what does the image mean to illustrate. - Images should be of a sufficient quality - please do not upload images that are pixelated, taken in strange ways or stretched.
- Image dimensions should be at least 256x256 pixels!
- The uploaded images should not be edited - please do not adjust colors or add frames or use filters or make pretty renders.
The goal of uploaded images is to show how objects appear in game so please only upload screenshots.
You can Crop images to center on the item! - Make sure to take the screenshots in a light that shows the model and does not overexpose maps.
If the model has glowing blocks and looks sufficiently different during different time of day - its worth a separate screenshot.
It is also best to take screenshots on neutral backgrounds. - If you want to showcase VFX - record and upload a .GIF instead of multiple images. It is encouraged to keep your gif file sizes under 4MB!
- Do not upload images of items that only exist in the inventory!
Plenty of existing images on the website do not match the current requirements. Our long term goal is to replace them with quality content!
Please be sure to do your best! You can upload new images to improve your own older uploads, but continuous improvements of the same image will not be rewarded!
1) On an example of 
Prized Qubbage - no clutter - good, hard to tell where the Qubbage is - bad.
2) Decent size - good, super small size - bad.
256x256 image - good - https://i.imgur.com/OgCbHkw.png
97x84 image - bad - https://i.imgur.com/btG5txO.png
3) Decent quality - good, enlarged image to meet size requirements - bad.
4) Centered image - good, landscape screenshot of a whole game area - bad.
5) In-game screenshot - good, photo of the screen - bad.
IMPORTANT - If you are aiming to upload a whole lot of images - please start small and upload one-two first to make sure your images are of sufficient quality to pass the moderation and get Approved!
The easiest way to take a screenshot is to use F12 (default) button while in game - it will take a snapshot of your whole game screen.
The screenshot location will be output in the chat box - this is only visible to you.
However, this method is not ideal as it captures the whole screen and could capture all the unwanted clutter or could have an object of interest as a very small part of the image. Plus, F12 removes transparency from Glass blocks.
To avoid that, you could use a free software like Greenshot or any other screenshot-taking application.
To take a good screenshot you also need to see a good image in the game itself. To achieve this you can:
- set your Field of View to smaller area to focus camera on an object in front of you - /fov 60 or /fov 20 etc will zoom in on a center of your screen. The default value is /fov 75 , if you want to revert your changes.
- disable your UI (health and abilities bar, crosshair etc) by pressing F7 . Press same F7 again to bring back the UI.
- hide your character so they are not blocking the view - /hideplayer - works best on classes without companions, like the Knight. To display player again use /showplayer
- hide the extra VFX by using /fxenable 0 . To enable vfx again use /fxenable 1
- if you want to take photos of allies - enter a Clubworld and use /freezecompanion to keep your ally from moving. To enable their movement again, use /feezecompanion false
To record GIFs, you could use a free software like GIFCam. It does not place a watermark on the gifs and allows for a good amount of settings and editing options.
Lets take the 
Cuppy Puppy ally for example. If the page does not have any images at all you will see the following form.
Usually you might have to scroll to the bottom of the page to see the Images section.
Click on the Grey Upload Image button to proceed - this will bring up the Upload form, you can chose images or .gif files
Navigate to the file you want to upload in the opened up Explorer window, select it and click the Blue Submit button - your image or .gif will enter the Contributions queue for moderators to check.
- Once Approved, Image Contributions are rewarded with 1 point per image.
- Good GIFs are rewarded with 3 points per gif file.
You can have multiple images in one static file - if they all are good you will be rewarded multiple points for such an image. However, if one of the images within the file is not good, it will be rejected as a whole too.
DO NOT make such multiple image files too big! These really need to be unified and proper. A good example of multi-image file can be found here > https://trovesaurus.com/images/uploads/9MBXD1H.png
You can find database entries for collections that need Images over here > https://trovesaurus.com/contributions/noimages
And database entries for decorations that need Images over here > https://trovesaurus.com/contributions/noimagesdeco
You are welcome to upload new images to pages that already have images, but if you do - please be sure that your image either shows an object from a different angle + in a different light or otherwise contributes to showing off a model in some new way, or that your image is of much better quality than already existing files.
If your image contribution was rejected, it is likely that the image was not uploaded to a right page or did not fulfill one or multiple requirements.
If you have any questions, please ask them in the #trovesaurus channel on the Trovesaurus Discord server ,
or reach out to 
Etaew or Ylva through the website emails.
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