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Screenshotting works again! <3
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 07:58
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 08:44
#2
please explain
I've heard about problems with screenshotting in the past, but I've never understood them. Why does screenshotting have anything to do with Spiral Knights? It's built into your operating system. On a Mac, press Cmnd-Shft-3. On Windows, press Wndw-PrtScn. On Linux press PrtScn or use any of various utilities. Can someone explain this to me?
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 08:50
#3
@Bopp
SK players have access to two automatic ways of screenshotting:
- Steam players can, through the Steam overlay, take a screenshot
- Non-Steam client, if not all clients, have access to binding a key to a screenshot feature, which send a screenshot to the desktop.
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 09:01
#4
and that's more convenient?
And these methods of taking a screenshot are more convenient than the general-purpose method provided by the operating system, because they involve a simpler key combination?
And the convenience is so great that it's worth the player's time to learn that key, even though it is specialized to this game or Steam? I guess I understand that.
Maybe it's because I'm old and not much of a gamer, but I have "muscle memory" that lets me hit Cmnd-Shft-3 pretty quickly, in any application I want. So I can't imagine learning a specialized command for a particular game.
Well, to each his own. And thanks for the explanation.
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 09:27
#5
Personally, I've never learned Windows' own screenshot input. Win+Print Screen doesn't seem to cut it. I do have Dropbox handling screenshots for me, as I automatically make a screenshot in Dropbox\Screenshots\ when I hit print screen and I can automatically get a link to it by holding Ctrl as I take the screenshot. However, it doesn't work with SK very well for me, probably because I play in windowed fullscreen.
With Steam screenshots, I can upload screenshots to the Steam community. In the end, I'm given a convenient way to take, manage, and share screenshots.
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 09:47
#6
ah, the sharing
Ah, it's the sharing. In my mind, the technical problems of capturing data from video memory and uploading that data to a server are completely independent of each other (see Unix philosophy). But then I don't share much. If you share screenshots often enough, it makes sense to bind the capture and uploading together into one concept. Thanks.
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 12:52
#7
Of course they're separate problems. The different ways of screenshotting probably work in somewhat differently, however. As such, it's relevant to troubleshooting issues regarding screenshotting, as solutions will be different depending on used method.
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 13:35
#8
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 20:54
#9
I've always just hit PrtScr and then CTRL+V'd it into mspaint. Maybe I'm just an old fogey.
Never stopped working for me butt congratulations, I suppose