Toolset Screenshots from Hell

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Or not, as it happens...

 

I admit it, this is PATHETIC!

 

After more years than is healthy of making CC for NWN and gleefully getting screenshots in-game (which is nice and easy), I now find myself, for the first time, confronted with CC so COLOSSAL that I cannot get properly demonstrative screenshots of the whole ensemble in-game. This stuff is just too big.

 

Right, I think, I'll just take a screenshot in the Toolset in order to explain the vast scope of the epic rubbish... Only what happens when I hit the "print screen" button with a big brick? Yes, that's right, NOTHING AT ALL!

If it is saving a shot, it must be hiding it in some obscure, devious corner I can't find. I've tried asking Go-Ogle in every way I could think of and found no answers, found no handy hints in any Toolset manual I've examined, which isn't many, I've hit every even vaguely likely hotkey, sequence of keys...

 

But evidently it can be done, so HOW?!

How do you carry out the pathetically simple operation of getting a screen capture in Aurora?

(Windows XP, if that makes any difference).

 

This is officially irritating me now.

Shabby Hyena thanks in advance for any helpful pointers.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

This is probably easiest if you've got gimp. Anyway you need to have both the toolset and your image editing program of choice open. Here are the steps.

1. First get the thing you want a picture of framed in the toolset window, as you want it.

   
2. Press both the Control and Printscreen keys simultaneously.

   
3. Switch to your image editing program

   
4. If you have gimp open file/create/create from clipboard. Gimp will create a new image of the correct size and paste the image data to it.

   
5. Other image editing programs vary. You will probably need to create a new image with the same dimensions as your screen and then paste the image data into it.

Hope that helps.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Hm. It's an unclutched straw - I'll get out there and clutch it. With a brick.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Mad Poet]

               

If you are using a newer version of windows (7 and up I think) you have a little program called 'Snipping Tool' in windows. Probably one of the most useful features added. You can highlight an area on your desktop and make a JPG of it.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

A useful feature - added post-XP?!

That ought to be on one of those "Believe it Or Not" programmes.

But only JPG, so no use for editing... even so, unbelievable. Eerie. Even disturbing.

 

Anyway, back here in XP World, it worked! Never thought to try hitting the old clipboard with a brick...

Whopping dirty great thanks, Tarot - consider yourself in receipt of a dead, dismembered wildebeest with clusters. Clusters of what, I shan't say.

There's no greater gift a Hyena can give... well, there probably is, but being mean, stingy, aggressive sods, we don't like parting with them.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_CaveGnome]

               Chances are Win XP will make a picture copy in the edit buffer memory when you use the "print screen keyboard key" (sometimes its a key combination with "Function"). Afterward, you can grab the picture with any program that can manipulate this buffer. For example, you can use the edit menu in the Gimp to copy the buffer "as a new image". Hopes this make sense. This works with W7 too.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Verilazic]

               

I'm a little impressed that you've managed to go this long without making something so colossal that it can't be screenshotted adequately in game, PHOD.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Mad Poet]

               

Apparently you haven't seen his 'Strange Buildings' placeables. They cover like a 4x4 area and are taller than I can raise some tilesets.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Those are nothing...

 

This very week (give or take), I shall be nailing another new Big Box to the Vault containing Placeables so massive, so gargantuan, so colossal, so stupidly, pointlessly, hypergantically meganormous as to defy description. We're talking 10x10 tiles and more - or would be if they were neatly square, which they aren't.

 

"They're going to be BIG!"

"Are they going to be any use?"

"Ah, well... um..."

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_kamal_]

               

We're talking 10x10 tiles and more - or would be if they were neatly square, which they aren't.

 

They're bricked together from non-euclidean geometry, aren't they?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Sort of huge quasi-fractal blobs.