Having a screenshot button, you press what ever key it is, and it saves a Jpg in your LFS folder, or in a screenshot folder.

Saves us pressing Print Screen then opening Photoshop/Paint or what ever you use and then paste.

Download Fraps and you will have your improvement.

Fraps

Memo to self: Must refresh before posting.

Fraps causes problems for me. Sometimes FSAA won't work unless I close fraps. Pretty annoying.

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Fraps causes problems for me. Sometimes FSAA won't work unless I close fraps. Pretty annoying.

Then use GrabClipSave. Much better than FRAPS qualitywise. plus you won't have that awful FPS-meter that FRAPS uses.

Use gadwin printscreen its the best...

My keyboard cunningly came with a 'Print Screen' button

Use UOSO or whatever its called

I also use the UOSU (Ultima Online Screenshot Utility - works with every program, not just UO). It's the most simple screenshot utility I ever saw (well, I saw ... about 3 in all my life, so this may not be completely representative).

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My keyboard cunningly came with a 'Print Screen' button

Yep, and Windows forces you to install Paint by default. Give me my install options back Microsoft! I'll stop before I get further off topic.

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Paint by default.

Relavance to the Print screen button? Can't imagine the image off the clipboard has gone through paint because it doesn't have any shitty compresion on it.

Looks like Bob didn't know this. You can paste the screenshot you captured with PrintScreen into any image manipulation program you want. Gimp, photoshop, pornview (yes, there is a viewer called like that), or whatever you are using. MS Paint is not involved at all.

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If you have a ATI video card then I reccomend you download ATI Tray Tools, it has a fps counter (you can disable it) built in and a screenshot tool when you can assing a hotkey(s)

Yeah but my point was that everyone has paint with which you have save an uncompressed BMP with. Hence completing the functionality of the PrintScrn button.

Hmm kay.

I'll try that ATI Tray Tools thing. Since I have a 9600xt.

I use FSScreen (from the flight sim community) but it captures .bmp files only. I haven't yet found a capture utility that takes as good of quality .jpg as I can get by converting the .bmp file myself with my graphics software I use, ThumbsPlus 5. I'll try some of these listed above to see the quality of the final shot.

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I use FSScreen (from the flight sim community) but it captures .bmp files only. I haven't yet found a capture utility that takes as good of quality .jpg as I can get by converting the .bmp file myself with my graphics software I use, ThumbsPlus 5. I'll try some of these listed above to see the quality of the final shot.

Here is a screenshot I took with ATI Tray tools, it took it as jpg (can change format tho) has not been tinkered with, hopfully will help you out.

Click here1152 x 864 240kb File[/url]

1. Turn AA on.
2. Horrible jpeg compression shit visible on my mac (may not be so obvious on Windows)

ok, but i still dont get why not have an in game one...

1. Extra coding\waste of Scawen's time may sound easy but I have no idea how complex it actually would be to add.

2. Nothing wrong with other programs\the print screen button.

3. What file formats would we see from the other formats LFS uses I guess the most likely would be raw (high image quality, high file size, impractical to handle without PS/PSP) or jpeg (no dobut shitty compression). When you could just print screen and save as a png in PS with no quality loss.

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Here is a screenshot I took with ATI Tray tools, it took it as jpg (can change format tho) has not been tinkered with, hopfully will help you out.

Click here1152 x 864 240kb File[/url]

Thank you, made me decide not to use ATITT for screenshots, LOL. My FSScreen bitmaps converted to jpegs are much better than that. Even at a lower resolution without AA/AF stuff (from old PC that wasn't that good). I'll have to scrounge up a screenshot I have and upload it. I result in cutting 1152x864, 3 mb bitmap down to under 400k (for photobucket.com) without any noticable quality loss. That's what I'm looking for in a screenshot program. Best quality jpeg.

FWIW, I tried to search for the other programs listed here and haven't found a link that worked to download.

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3. What file formats would we see from the other formats LFS uses I guess the most likely would be raw (high image quality, high file size, impractical to handle without PS/PSP) or jpeg (no dobut shitty compression). When you could just print screen and save as a png in PS with no quality loss.

Seeing how PNG is completely open source, i guess LFS could write it's own PNG's with relatively little coding. However, i'm with the screenshot-software crowd on this one, IMO there's really no need for a screenshot function in LFS.