ScreenShots

How do I take a screenshot?
-me

Screenshot of what?

Screenshot of what you are reading right now? Well then press the Print Screen button and paste the clipboard contents into an image editor.

Try to be more specific people...

A game I'm in the middle of programing

savebuffer command will help. just save the backbuffer after rendering, and before flipping.

Thanks, but how do I post my screenshot?
-me

you need wepspace. then load it up there and write its URL here. You need webspace that allows external linking of images. most free webspace providers dont allow this.

maybe your ISP can give you some good space. Or this:
http://www.50free.com/ Or think about some space that costs some bucks per month.

Here's a handy bit of code for taking 'In-Game' screenshots.

If KeyHit(88) SaveBuffer FrontBuffer(),"screenshot_"+CurrentTime$()+".bmp" ; Key [F12]

Once you have some images uploaded you can use forum tags to display them here. Or, just type in the location of the image. Examples:

{img http:/www.mywebpage.com/screenshot.jpg} use [] instead of {}
http:/www.mywebpage.com/screenshot.jpg

Thanks for your help guys! Also, look in the worklog entries
for StormDimension!
-me

It won't load them!
-me

Oops. Forgot to log in.
-me

Nevermind. I got it to work.
-me

Don't be silly, Pat!

F:\Program Files\Blitz3D\screnshot\sd\screen1.bmp

you cannot link to your harddisk! the above path is on your hardisk, partition F, or maybe a cd-rom drive. Would you like all People digging in your computer?

Why don't you do what I say? First You need webspace. Go to the link I posted and register for free. after some emial exchange you will be able to upload files to that server and also to create your personal homepage, such as http://patisawesome.50free.net

Your images will then probably have an URL like
*http://patisawesome.50free.net/images/screen1.jpg*, assuming you will create a folder named "images" on the server and upload your Pics to that location.

And one importand Thing: FIrst convert the .BMP Images to .JPG or .PNG! Only dummies post .BMP on the web. You can get converters, probably get IrvanView: http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10021962.html

This is all very basic, pat. since you're a Blitz Veteran I suggest you should do your homework NOW.

EDIT: by the way, www.50free.com don't let's you register right now, they say they had too many new registrations in the past, so one should try again at 16. December.

lol

just of curiosity,

havent tried it yet. But is the "print-screen" command key disabled as default while developing Blitz games? is it not possible to just "print-screen" and paste into Paint Shop Pro for example?

print screen definitely works in windowed mode, but doesn't seem to work properly in fullscreen (3d) mode.

Thats interesting ... that the print-scr key is disabled in fullscreen mode ... hmmm ...

You can use (ALT + PrintScreen) in full screen mode to take a snapshot.

And then there is FRAPS:

http://www.fraps.com/downloads.htm

plenty of solutions I guess :-))

A while back I wrote a simple movieplayer that plays an AVI-file.
This movieplayer cannot skip forwards or backwards or something else, but was designed to take screenshots from movies, because playing a movie in Media Player and pressing "Prt Scr" doesn't capture the movie (just the media player window, the portion where the movie is playing, is black).

I used "Graphics3D", because "Dithering" doesn't work when using "Graphics" (2D).

All screenshots taken with this movieplayer are perfect (I've taken about 150 screenshots from DIVX-movies).
Here are a few of them:

http://users.pandora.be/vge/Blitz3D

Of course the picture quality is now a little reduced, because:
1. the movie is scaled from original size (Hot Chick: 896x504, Johnny English: 512x288) to full screen (1024x768)
2. the screenshots are converted to JPG
3. the movie is ripped from DVD and compressed to DIVX

The file "Johnny English 1.jpg" was taken in a fast moving part of the movie.

And for the ones who want to use my movieplayer, the source code is also uploaded to my website (see link above).

You can load a movie by right-clicking a movie in Windows and selecting "Open with" and then browse to the compiled exe (you have to do this yourself, downloading the source code and compiling is faster than downloading the EXE for modem-users).
See comments in the source code for options (pressing F8 will take screenshot, ...)

Screenshots are saved to "C:\MoviePlayer\Screenshots", but you can alter this if you want (global var: ScreenshotDir$).

The PrintScreen thing is apparently disabled in DirectX by default. Run this to toggle whether DirectX PrintScreen functionality is on or off...

http://www.hi-toro.com/misc/dxenableprintscreen.exe [6k]

Once enabled, PrintScreen will work as normal...

Pat - since my tip for free webspace (50free.com) don't allows new registrations ATM, here is a webspace-search engine, eg. let's you search for webspace without advertisements:

http://www.freewebspacereview.net/search.php?sort=space&space=21-999&banner=on&popup=on&frame=on&watermark=on&list=10

pat, if you still want screenies, check you email.

this is where printscreen come in handy - its work on me even in fullscreen...

I have registered 50 megs Ads-free Webspace for Patisawesome, sent him the password and all infos. But it seems like Pat gave it up, trying to upload screenshots to the web. and it seems like he doesn't read his emails.

However, so I will use the space for my own screenies.

Sorry I havn't replied. A lot is going on.
-me

BTW Pat you have to login to that account I gave you once in every month, if you forget this, it will be deleted. That's the price for having no advertisement spam on the (free) page.

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If KeyHit(68) ; F10 key
SaveBuffer(BackBuffer(), "file.bmp")
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