Screenshot feature

[Zamael]

This... may have been suggested before. I made a quick search with the "screenshot" word, didn't find anything from the first couple pages, made this thread.

Anyway. It'd be awesome if there was an internal "save screenshot" -button, especially with the map editor: if I want to take a shot of the map I've made and show it to you, I'm forced to zoom it out until it's so fuzzy you can barely make out anything of it, in order to make it all fit on the screen at the same time. This is frustrating and looks silly.

[Max]

there's a hotkey for that in 1.6...

[Zamael]

There is? Why was I never informed of this?

Can I use it in the map editor too?

[Max]

that's a feature for the map editor (which has different hotkeys)...

[Zamael]

You're not helping.

If you don't tell me those hotkeys I will be forced to look at the manual! (Wherever that is. I don't think I ever even found the manual.)

[Alink]

The hotkey is called "Map Screenshot", seems clear enough to me, so I suppose you didn't searched very long . Check hotkeys settings to assign one for this. And yes, it works in editor too (maybe need to set the hotkey there too, not sure). Also, using it in editor allow to hide units from the screenshot. One current flaw of the feature is that it creates heavy .bmp file.

[Zamael]

One current flaw of the feature is that it creates heavy .bmp file.

But the .bmp file can be opened in MSPaint and saved again as a .jpg, no?

Regardless, this is useful information, and I thank you for it.

[Max]

But the .bmp file can be opened in MSPaint and saved again as a .jpg, no?

why don't you just give it a try?

[Zamael]

But the .bmp file can be opened in MSPaint and saved again as a .jpg, no?

why don't you just give it a try?

That one was more of a statement rather than a question.

[Max]

paint also supports png btw, at least in xp...

[Zarel]

But the .bmp file can be opened in MSPaint and saved again as a .jpg, no?

You should open it in at least Paint.NET, Photoshop, or GIMP, and you should save it as either a .png or .gif. If you can't use anything but MS Paint, you should only save it as a .png (MS Paint saves other formats in extremely low quality).

[DEATH_is_undead]

(MS Paint saves other formats in extremely low quality).

See my avatar? Originally, the clouds were one color... Thats what MS Paint did to it, although I saved this as a Gif.

[Lord Ork]

jpeg is not the best format for storing screenshots. Gif has the problem of being restricted to 256 colours. I recommend png.

Ah... Ms Paint should be deleted from all computers over the world.

[Aethaeryn]

jpeg is not the best format for storing screenshots. Gif has the problem of being restricted to 256 colours. I recommend png.

Ah... Ms Paint should be deleted from all computers over the world.

I don't understand why you're so critical of one of the core software programs bundled with Windows. According to Wikipedia, MS Paint now defaults to PNG as of Windows 7. It only took them ten years, that's innovative!

[Yoyobuae]

I don't understand why you're so critical of one of the core software programs bundled with Windows. According to Wikipedia, MS Paint now defaults to PNG as of Windows 7. It only took them ten years, that's innovative!

Not surprising. BMP is simply a memory dump of the bitmap information used internally inside of Windows graphic subsystem, GDI.

Same thing happens with their document formats. And in their most evil incarnation, they transformed said memory dump into XML, and got it approved as a standard.