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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: lukipuk on December 12, 2007, 05:30:32 pm

Title: How to take screenshot?
Post by: lukipuk on December 12, 2007, 05:30:32 pm

Hi

First of all, I want to congratulate you for making such a wonderfull game!

And now to the point :)  I have noticed that there is folder named 'screenshot', but i cant find out how to take screenshot in the game...there is no such key in the options menu nor in the documentation.  (hiting the  'PrintScreen' button and then switching to windows and pasting image to paintbrush works, but it's pain-in-the-ass)

Thanks for any advice!

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: Alec on December 12, 2007, 05:43:08 pm

ctrl+alt+p should grab TGA shots to the screenshots folder.

You could also try the free version of fraps (http://fraps.com/).

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: lukipuk on December 12, 2007, 08:32:26 pm

Thx for reply, fraps looks promising...

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: Quemaqua on December 13, 2007, 04:42:16 am

I've actually had pretty bad luck with FRAPS for shots.  The images it takes always seem to be pretty massively compressed.  Kind of a shame.

Thanks for shortcut, Alec.  I'd been wondering what it was but hadn't found it (had been popping out to copy stuff into other programs for days now, that was getting old fast).

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: Alec on December 13, 2007, 12:41:32 pm

Just set Fraps to take PNG shots instead!

(unless that option isn't available in the demo version)

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: Quemaqua on December 13, 2007, 03:31:26 pm

Hell, I'm a registered user and I don't think I ever even noticed it could do PNG shots.  Now I feel stupid, yay.  I'd feel even more stupid, but I haven't reinstalled the thing since my XP reinstall the other day.  So at least I can say I missed it while I didn't actually have a copy of the program to look at.

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: delve on March 19, 2008, 07:15:38 pm

Quote from: Alec on December 12, 2007, 05:43:08 pm

ctrl+alt+p should grab TGA shots to the screenshots folder.

You should add this to the readme file. :)

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: smashIt on March 19, 2008, 09:33:35 pm

i hope you add the option to simply press print instead of such a wild combination (seems you had too much contact with macs ;) )

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: Alec on March 20, 2008, 12:24:26 pm

PRINTSCREEN should work as well.

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: Glamador on March 20, 2008, 05:00:08 pm

I've taken a bunch of screenies with Prntscrn and paste in MSPaint, but I see no evidence of my Prntscrns in the Aquaria folder...if it saved them, they're somewhere obscure.

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: delve on March 20, 2008, 05:12:53 pm

Quote from: Alec on March 20, 2008, 12:24:26 pm

PRINTSCREEN should work as well.

It didn't for me, but this PC is usually a bit cranky anyway.Prtinscreen didn't even copy to my clipboard, which is why I went searching for the in-game key command. :)

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: Alec on March 20, 2008, 05:13:00 pm

hrm... pretty sure its bound to printscreen as well. i'll investigate laters.

Title: Re: How to take screenshot?
Post by: silverflagon on May 15, 2008, 11:22:45 pm

If you happen to have Paint Shop that also has a capture mode that is very useful and of course you can save your shots in whatever file type you like  :D