Making Screenshots Easily

[Guest]

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Slightly off topic, but since it's NFS's prevention of alt-tabbing (at
least for HP & HS, and under Win98, no idea for any of the other NFSes or
Windows) and lack of any sort of in-game screenshotting forcing one to
constantly exit & reload for every single shot you want to take...

Anyone here know of a decent screenshot tool that'll just immediately save
the shot(s) somewhere with a single keypress (preferably the normal print
screen button and not requiring ctrl/alt manipulation and being smart enough
to know when the game you're playing wants to use said key)?

--
"...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot
easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into
work every day and has a job to do." [Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"]
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa343/index.html

 

[predator]

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fraps?

"Joseph William Dixon" <aa343@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
newsine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1041109214450.2061A-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca...
> Slightly off topic, but since it's NFS's prevention of alt-tabbing (at
> least for HP & HS, and under Win98, no idea for any of the other NFSes or
> Windows) and lack of any sort of in-game screenshotting forcing one to
> constantly exit & reload for every single shot you want to take...
>
> Anyone here know of a decent screenshot tool that'll just immediately
> save
> the shot(s) somewhere with a single keypress (preferably the normal print
> screen button and not requiring ctrl/alt manipulation and being smart
> enough
> to know when the game you're playing wants to use said key)?
>
> --
> "...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that
> cannot
> easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into
> work every day and has a job to do." [Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"]
> http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa343/index.html
>

 

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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Predator wrote:
> fraps?

Thanks. Seems to do the job, though its framerate counter's annoying.
Pity it can't really be usefully configured, though. (eg, being able to set
the output directory, filename format [it just uses the date & time for the
filename], file type to save as, etc....) Still, it should be good
enough...

--
"...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot
easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into
work every day and has a job to do." [Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"]
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa343/index.html

 

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> Thanks. Seems to do the job, though its framerate counter's annoying.

You can turn off the frame rate counter, go to frap's settings, and instead
of picking a corner for framerate, select disable. (Unless this is only
allowed in the paid for version that also captures sound).

 

[Guest]

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Jeff Reid wrote:
> > Thanks. Seems to do the job, though its framerate counter's annoying.
>
> You can turn off the frame rate counter, go to frap's settings, and
> instead of picking a corner for framerate, select disable. (Unless this is
> only allowed in the paid for version that also captures sound).

Dunno about that - I'm stuck with the Win9x version.

--
"...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot
easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into
work every day and has a job to do." [Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"]
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa343/index.html

 

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"Joseph William Dixon" <aa343@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
newsine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1041109214450.2061A-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca...
> Slightly off topic, but since it's NFS's prevention of alt-tabbing
(at
> least for HP & HS, and under Win98, no idea for any of the other NFSes
or
> Windows) and lack of any sort of in-game screenshotting forcing one to
> constantly exit & reload for every single shot you want to take...
>
> Anyone here know of a decent screenshot tool that'll just
immediately save
> the shot(s) somewhere with a single keypress (preferably the normal
print
> screen button and not requiring ctrl/alt manipulation and being smart
enough
> to know when the game you're playing wants to use said key)?

HyperSnap-DX is still there...

--KC

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.games.need-for-speed (More info?)

> Slightly off topic, but since it's NFS's prevention of alt-tabbing (at
> least for HP & HS, and under Win98, no idea for any of the other NFSes or
> Windows) and lack of any sort of in-game screenshotting forcing one to
> constantly exit & reload for every single shot you want to take...
>
> Anyone here know of a decent screenshot tool that'll just immediately
save
> the shot(s) somewhere with a single keypress (preferably the normal print
> screen button and not requiring ctrl/alt manipulation and being smart
enough
> to know when the game you're playing wants to use said key)?

So you mean pressing PrintScr will put the screen data into the clipboard?

If the answer is a yes, then it's a simple to write a program to monitor the
clipboard at regular intervals, check the content, and write it to a file.

But is the answer a yes?


Alternatively, many image editing tools include a screen capture utility (I
use PaintShopPro myself, as I got a bundled copy when buying hardwares). And
there's programs like SnapIt! which specifically deals with screen capture.
You might google around for some free tools...

 

[Jez]

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Joseph William Dixon wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but since it's NFS's prevention of alt-tabbing (at
> least for HP & HS, and under Win98, no idea for any of the other NFSes or
> Windows) and lack of any sort of in-game screenshotting forcing one to
> constantly exit & reload for every single shot you want to take...
>
> Anyone here know of a decent screenshot tool that'll just immediately save
> the shot(s) somewhere with a single keypress (preferably the normal print
> screen button and not requiring ctrl/alt manipulation and being smart enough
> to know when the game you're playing wants to use said key)?
>
You could try 'Euro_Screenshot 2....
It can be found at........

http://www.euro-downloads.com/utilitiespub.htm

HTH

--
Jez
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