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How to take screenshots?

Postby Isiboy » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:39 pm

how i can make screenshoots???
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Postby Pardner » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:05 pm

you can take a screenshot be pressing F11. By default it takes the screenshot in .tga form and stores this in your "Smokin' Guns/smokinguns/" folder.

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Postby EvilFutsin » Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:29 am

If you're trying to take a picture of the menu and the screenshot command doesn't work, try using Printscreen command on your keyboard. That sometimes is what I have to do, or at least used to back in the older Q3 days.
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Postby Tequila » Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:35 am

:D
Sorry EvilFutsin, but you are wrong ;)

Try to set "developer" cvar to 1 in a console, then press F12 to shot any menu...
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Postby Juaro Juarez » Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:16 pm

I don't know why, but sadly pressing f11 doesnt work on 1.1b2?
Or is it just a problem of mine?
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Postby Pardner » Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:40 pm

you can rebind f11 to take a screenshot. I think it worked fine for me in 1.1b*

/bind F11 screenshotjpeg
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Postby /dev/random » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:35 pm

/screenshot (in format TGA) should always be able to do shots of the ingame menus. Just bind it to some key :)
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Postby ChainLightnin' » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:49 pm

This may not be the situation here, but I punched F11 20 times thinking it didn't work, but it saved 20 pictures in the new user/appdata/etc. file location folder that 1.1x creates. You may want to check that. :)
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Postby Juaro Juarez » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:31 pm

Ahkay. Thanks guys :D
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Postby torhu » Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:37 pm

ChainLightnin' wrote:This may not be the situation here, but I punched F11 20 times thinking it didn't work, but it saved 20 pictures in the new user/appdata/etc. file location folder that 1.1x creates. You may want to check that. :)

This reminds me, I was thinking about having the installer create a link to the %appdata%\Smokin' Guns\smokinguns folder, so people will be able to find their screenshot, demos, etc. Maybe call it "Settings and Data" or something like that. I guess it would have to be prefixed with "Smokin' Guns" to play nice with the start menu search in Vista and 7.
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Postby ChainLightnin' » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:34 pm

I think that's a great idea! :D
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Postby moRtem » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:30 pm

ChainLightnin' wrote:[...]but it saved 20 pictures in the new user/appdata/etc. file location folder that 1.1x creates.


Just to have it said once:

Dear Developers,
I really HATE when Software spreads itself all over my Harddisk.
Would be nice to have an option still, which tells SG to keep its files in SG-folder.


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Postby Pardner » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:47 pm

I use +set fs_homepath on my shortcut. everything comes from the smokinguns dir

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Postby torhu » Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:20 pm

moRtem wrote:Just to have it said once:

Dear Developers,
I really HATE when Software spreads itself all over my Harddisk.
Would be nice to have an option still, which tells SG to keep its files in SG-folder.


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So you hate almost all apps in in existance? If they don't use %appdata%, they probably use the registry, which is worse. :P

On Vista and later, the Program Files dir is not normally writable except for installers, so files written there are automatically redirected to what M$ calls the 'virtual store' anyway.

Well, you can do what Pardner suggested, that'll give you a 'portable' SG. In SG 1.1 you can see which paths are used by typing 'fs' in the console and pressing Tab.
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Postby moRtem » Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:03 pm

Pardner wrote:I use +set fs_homepath on my shortcut. everything comes from the smokinguns dir


ah -- good input -- i totally forgot about that possibility - thanks

So you hate almost all apps in in existance? If they don't use %appdata%, they probably use the registry, which is worse.


the excessive use of %appdata% started recently -- i see the philosophy of having user-profiles etc., but i still dislike when programs don't stay in the folder where i decided to install them once

that's one of the things i basically like about Quake3-engine-games .. you got one folder for the game.. in case you want to port your game to a different machine, copy/paste the folder and play it max. 10 seconds after

On Vista and later, the Program Files dir is not normally writable except for installers, so files written there are automatically redirected to what M$ calls the 'virtual store' anyway.


mine is writable since i disabled virtual store



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