For those people who aren't familiar with that program (like me), what's the advantage of using it rather than the standard Print Screen key?
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It's true that CoH's default is to take it's own screenshots when the key is pressed and save them in a directory, either with the user interface on or off.|
Originally Posted by Blondeshell
For those people who aren't familiar with that program (like me), what's the advantage of using it rather than the standard Print Screen key?
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Some people like to edit some pictures after capping, which makes having a program designed to for that purpose even better. Yes, the game can save the file in several formats, making opening them later in your favorite editor an easy thing to accomplish, but some people skip those options and opt for an external program that can do both instead... probably because most games don't have the feature CoH does and/or they don't know it exists.
To address the OP's issue:
I used to have a program called Hypersnap that I'd use for other games, and I found that using Printscreen and pasting into an editor or even while snapping with the program itself, that it would not "catch" rendered images from the games either, and show up black. I had to go through the preferences and found something relating to capturing DirectDraw/OpenGL, and that fixed it up.
Also, I've seen threads in the past mentioning that Windows Vista/7 sometimes handles the PrintScreen function a little differently, and it might be affecting your program. Try taking a picture of your desktop and see if it works correctly, and if not, we'll have to look for one of those threads. If it does snap your desktop the right way, then you might have to look through the settings and see what you can find to make it capture the game.
It might be worth noting that using the default built-in PrintScreen function of City of Heroes not only saves a screenshot without the user interface in the screenshots folder but also copies a bitmap screenshot with the user interface showing in the Windows clipboard. You can then paste it from there into any other application you like.
Running a Microsoft Office application like Word in the background even gives you the additional functionality of the multiple-contents-clipboard, so you could do several screenshots and then pick the one from the clipboard that you like best. (This is true for Windows XP; newer Windows versions might offer this feature even without Office running.)
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You can turn the user interface on or off (affecting screenshots only).|
Originally Posted by Ten__
It might be worth noting that using the default built-in PrintScreen function of City of Heroes not only saves a screenshot without the user interface (if you have it set that way) in the screenshots folder but also copies a bitmap screenshot with the user interface showing in the Windows clipboard. You can then paste it from there into any other application you like. |
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/bind sysrq "screenshotui 0$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture without UI
/bind shift+sysrq "screenshotui 1$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture with UI
This way you don't have to worry about extra binds. Print Screen acts as default (no UI), shift+print screen adds the UI in.
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hmmm... I may have to change my bind. At the moment, I've left the print screen key as the default, and created a UI on/off toggle for the pause/break key (right next to my print screen key). Right now, if I want the UI on, I hit the pause/break then the print screen... I like the idea of putting that all into one key, though. Thanks for the tip! |
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
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/bind sysrq "screenshotui 0$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture without UI /bind shift+sysrq "screenshotui 1$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture with UI This way you don't have to worry about extra binds. Print Screen acts as default (no UI), shift+print screen adds the UI in. |
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Note that you have to use both binds, you can't just bind shift+sysrq. By default, sysrq is only "screenshot", which means if you use shift+sysrq, it will turn on the UI, and if you use sysrq (default) after that, it will still have the UI turned on since it doesn't have the extra "screenshotui 0" in the default bind.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
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awwwww... okay then, it pretty much does the same as what I have going (hit pause/break to turn UI on, hit again to turn it off).
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Note that you have to use both binds, you can't just bind shift+sysrq. By default, sysrq is only "screenshot", which means if you use shift+sysrq, it will turn on the UI, and if you use sysrq (default) after that, it will still have the UI turned on since it doesn't have the extra "screenshotui 0" in the default bind.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Note that you have to use both binds, you can't just bind shift+sysrq. By default, sysrq is only "screenshot", which means if you use shift+sysrq, it will turn on the UI, and if you use sysrq (default) after that, it will still have the UI turned on since it doesn't have the extra "screenshotui 0" in the default bind.
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Originally Posted by Impish Kat
awwwww... okay then, it pretty much does the same as what I have going (hit pause/break to turn UI on, hit again to turn it off).
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/bind sysrq "screenshotui 0$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture without UI
/bind pause "screenshotui 1$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture with UI
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Well, that's what I was thinking, but isn't it pretty much the same thing that Agge posted? Yet she says the second bind will leave the UI on... Now I'm confuzzled |
Originally Posted by Master-Blade
As an alternative, you could simply bind each of those 2 keys to do each specific shot so you'll only have to use one button each time and you wont have to remember which way the option is currently toggled when you are about to take a picture.
Example: /bind sysrq "screenshotui 0$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture without UI /bind pause "screenshotui 1$$screenshot" <-- always take a picture with UI |
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Yes, almost the same, except you'll have to use 2 keys to set off the second bind (counting the Control key), whereas doing it the other way is just one single keystroke. Matter of preference is all. I just figured that since you already use the second key to toggle it already, then you could just adapt it that way instead..|
Originally Posted by Impish Kat
Well, that's what I was thinking, but isn't it pretty much the same thing that Agge posted? Yet she says the second bind will leave the UI on... Now I'm confuzzled
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As for what Agg means..
Printscreen is programmed to take a screenshot according to your current preference. That's all.
Using the second bind sets your Screeshot UI to ON, then takes the picture. It never turns Screeshot UI back OFF again.
That's why you'd have to re-bind the original PrintScreen key as well because by default that key doesn't turn it off either, and you'd just end up with UI screenshots forever. lol
In short, and to re-iterate, if you intend to use that method, you have to make sure you type BOTH the binds, and not just assume the printscreen key will always take a picture without the interface.
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Originally Posted by Master-Blade
As for what Agg means.. Printscreen is programmed to take a screenshot according to your current preference. That's all. ... That's why you'd have to re-bind the original PrintScreen key as well |
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The image it saved to the screenshots directory also stores metadata about where you were when you took the shot, and who was nearby.|
Originally Posted by Ten__
City of Heroes not only saves a screenshot without the user interface in the screenshots folder but also copies a bitmap screenshot with the user interface showing in the Windows clipboard.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Note that you have to use both binds, you can't just bind shift+sysrq. By default, sysrq is only "screenshot", which means if you use shift+sysrq, it will turn on the UI, and if you use sysrq (default) after that, it will still have the UI turned on since it doesn't have the extra "screenshotui 0" in the default bind.
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After you said that, I took a look. |
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
The image it saved to the screenshots directory also stores metadata about where you were when you took the shot, and who was nearby.
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A picture from today says:
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coh:x=711
coh:y=-8
coh:z=-5133
coh:zone=City_02_02
Skyway City
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Player1name, Player2name
That's kinda neat...
Thanks for the help guys, just going to go with the default...
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I downloaded PrintKey 2000 v5.10 off the web, and while I can get it to capture shots of my desktop, I can't get it to work in-game, any thoughts?
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