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  3rd December 2003, 2:55pm
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 Vengeance: The Demon  Group: Members Posts: 513 Joined: November 2003 From: The ol' pumpkin patch Member No.: 902  |
How can I take screenshots from UFO? I know I've done it in the past because I have the aliens UFOpaedia images, but can't for the life of me remember how I did it!
I've tried the obvious hitting the "Print Screen" key and nothing is sent to the clipboard... and I've also tried a screen capture program called "Print Screen Deluxe" and it didn't work either! The only difference to when I captured the images years ago and now, is that I'm now running XP, so maybe "Print Screen" in XP works differently... I really don't know... Any help? -------------------- "The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO; Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus."
-- K, Men In Black |
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3rd December 2003, 6:27pm
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 This isn't a Sectoid Mind Control Box... Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: March 2003 Member No.: 161 |
Press F12 in game, and it saves it as a Targa image file (.tga)
-------------------- -BreakMage
Of all the things I loathe, potatos and Ethereals come to mind first... |
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4th December 2003, 1:01am
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Vengeance: The Demon Group: Members Posts: 513 Joined: November 2003 From: The ol' pumpkin patch Member No.: 902 |
QUOTE(BreakMage @ Dec 4 2003, 03:27 AM) Press F12 in game, and it saves it as a Targa image file (.tga) Sweet as... I'll give that a go... Thanks... -------------------- "The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO; Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus."
-- K, Men In Black |
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4th December 2003, 2:09am
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 The Smily Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2,997 Joined: September 2002 From: Tasmania (AU) Member No.: 152 |
I always just used PrintScrn, or Alt + PrintScrn.
The problem was the image captured was double resolution (640x480, or some such). -------------------- |
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4th December 2003, 2:46am
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 Rowboat Group: Site Staff Posts: 2,725 Joined: September 2002 From: Outer Space Member No.: 813 |
Dos version: The Printscreen or alt+printscreen method works fine. Don't know why the resolution is doubled, but it isn't much of a problem.
Windows version: The F12 screencapture key is the only way to do it. The printscreen method works, but the palette information is not saved, so when you paste it, the image is ruined and the unique image information is lost. - NKF -------------------- Current Avatar Source: A custom GM-Striker. The 'British' counterpart to the 'German' Zaku in Ich trage eine Wanne für einen Hut. I still have no idea if that's been mistranslated.
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4th December 2003, 3:50am
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The Smily Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2,997 Joined: September 2002 From: Tasmania (AU) Member No.: 152 |
Ah... can the windows version be played in a window? If so, try taking a full screen shot. You may have to up your screen res.
Probably just easier to use a tga file. -------------------- |
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4th December 2003, 7:45am
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Vengeance: The Demon Group: Members Posts: 513 Joined: November 2003 From: The ol' pumpkin patch Member No.: 902 |
I tried F12 and nothing happened...
-------------------- "The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO; Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus."
-- K, Men In Black |
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4th December 2003, 8:04am
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Rowboat Group: Site Staff Posts: 2,725 Joined: September 2002 From: Outer Space Member No.: 813 |
There will be no indication that anything's happened after you press the F12 key. Go to your file explorer (or whatever you prefer to use to navigate your harddrive) and look in the directory you installed the game.
Look for all the *.tga files. Those will be your screenshots. Just open them up with your favourite image editor or viewer, export them or copy/cut at your leisure. If no targa files get created after pressing F12 several times while playing the game, then you're probably using the dos edition. - NKF -------------------- Current Avatar Source: A custom GM-Striker. The 'British' counterpart to the 'German' Zaku in Ich trage eine Wanne für einen Hut. I still have no idea if that's been mistranslated.
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4th December 2003, 2:22pm
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Vengeance: The Demon Group: Members Posts: 513 Joined: November 2003 From: The ol' pumpkin patch Member No.: 902 |
QUOTE(NKF @ Dec 4 2003, 05:04 PM) If no targa files get created after pressing F12 several times while playing the game, then you're probably using the dos edition. I'm pretty sure I am running the DOS version... I didn't even know there was a windows version 
-------------------- "The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO; Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus."
-- K, Men In Black |
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