Salutations, I am Carlberg, the 3D environment art lead on CK3 and today we have a small teaser for that button you may have spotted down in the right corner on a lot of dev diaries. It is the button that will bring up the Photomode of the court, to make it easier to take memorable pictures of the events and happenings of your court! Along with this preview we also thought wed show off some more artifacts in their natural habitat.

Due to the nature of this diary, many of the images are much too large to have on Steam. To fully experience our Teaser on the forums and share your thoughts, you can click the link below.

Read our Winter Teaser #1 - Photo Mode

Enjoy the FAQ Royal Court and read all there is to learn about our upcoming Expansion



The camera might not have been invented in the dark ages, but dont we all want clean screenshots?.

Weve been confident for quite some time that our players would want to take some pictures of what happens in their court, the interesting courtiers interacting or from finally seeing your rival and vassal arrive to bend the knee. So for that purpose the Photo mode will give everyone the ability to pick what camera is currently active out of a curated selection. Some of these are camera angles that youve seen depending on different interfaces and some camera angles only available in the photo mode.

In the photo mode you can select cameras from a dropdown, turn off courtiers for decoration focused shots, or the UI to get a clean picture with no interface.

And following, here are a few more court shots taken with the photo mode.
[Please see forum post here]

Trivia:
Did you know that the natural camera, camera obscura, is an optical effect that can occur in a dark room with a small hole for the entry of light. This light causes a projection of the outside to occur within the dark room and has been observed and mentioned in Chinese written texts as early as 400 bce.


We'll be back again next week with another teaser!