Question about making decent MWLL wallpaper and sigs

[=DR.DEATH=]

I'm trying to take snapshots of ingame play (by pressing F12 i think) and then copy/paste them into gimp and edit them a little bit to make some really cool wallpaper and/or sigs. The only issue i'm running into at the moment is that when i take shapshots of ingame play, i get that "gamer's name" that floats above the mechs/vehicles and other stuff that are on the hud or misc letters during spectate mode...my question is can i tweak a setting somewhere in the mod to where it temporarily doesn't show that stuff so that i can make better quality art from ingame snapshots?

also, is there a way to zoom in and zoom out during spectate mode so that i can take better quality pics? Any advice would be great. 

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Use the console command cl_hud 0 to turn of the HUD, 1 to switch it back on.

Also your screenshots (F12) will be placed in Documents/My Games/Crysis/ScreenShots, so there is no need to have GIMP open at the same time.

[=DR.DEATH=]

cool, thanks for the info

[(TLL)KitLightning]

NP

also, is there a way to zoom in and zoom out during spectate mode so that i can take better quality pics? Any advice would be great. 

Tsk tsk silly me I forgot that one. And its a no. The use of the Zoom function is not possible while in Spectate mode.

[=DR.DEATH=]

awww, ok. Oh, btw i reciently went to the FC league section on the forums here and noticed that somebody is frapsing matches in what seems to be some kind of spectate mode completly different than the one use while waiting to respawn. Is that a different mode that whoever was frapsing those matches? I'm gonna be purchasing fraps in a few weeks and would love to randomly join a server and do something like that.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

There is only one Spectator mode in Crysis afaik. What you may see is that the video recorder already has switched to spectator view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMunub198d8 here it is done at 2:15 via the console.
Please link the video you are referring to if possible.

[MerfMerf]

The different behaviours is due to being on a team or not.  If you are on a team and spectate (like when waiting for respawn) you can only spectate your own team members and only with camera locked to them. When having a dedicated cameraperson (or several) like in the FCL the cameraperson(s) do not join a team. At start if you bring up the team selection pane you can choose "spectate" located under the IS (I think) banner. This will allow you to switch to either spectate with locked camera on a player (no matter the team) or use the free mode camera flying around the world at your own leisure.

The free mode is the mode usually used when doing camera work for the FCL. I know some of them use controllers for input instead of mouse to get a smoother camera movement as well. Do note that the free mode camera is rather slow unless you press the BA sprint button.

/Merf - Approves of anything that give us more MWLL videos on youtube