Can't find screenies that I've taken

[llanita]

Hi, I have taken some screenies of some fms and I cant find them. Usually when I take screenies about other things, they show up in my Pictures folder.

For DM FMs however, I don't get any at all.

I have used the Prt Scr which is the key that I use successfully on other things, and I've also tried using F12, also to no avail.

I have looked in the DM folder as well as the screenshots folder and they are not there. They are not under the fm name or under dm

.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanksv

[Bikerdude]

under the FMS folder there will be the name of each mission you have played, and inside that a folder called SCREENSHOTS.

[SteveL]

F12 is the right key, and they should appear be in the darkmod/screenshots folder. Not a problem I've heard of before so please take one more look.

 

If they're not there, check the properties on your darkmod folder and make sure it hasn't set itself to read-only, which seems to happen sometimes on Windows.

 

EDIT: my advice on where to find them conflicts with Biker's, but he's taken a lot more screenshots than I have so I won't argue Mine always appear in the top-level darkmod folder but maybe that's some setting that I've changed from the default.

Edited December 17, 2015 by SteveL

[llanita]

Bikerdude nothing on any of the folders you mentioned,

SteveL I've also checked the Darkmod/screenshots folder and nothing there.

However my darkmod folder is Read-only.

I'll have to look and see how I can change that.

Thanks very much to you both

[nbohr1more]

Screens should get written to darkmod/the screenshots folder though that may be configurable (the new convention took place in v1.08 and later).

 

Make sure your screenshots folder is not set to Read Only.

[Bikerdude]

However my darkmod folder is Read-only.

there is yer issue.

[llanita]

yep, I've looked online on changing permissions and it's not very easy. I'll guess I'll skip the screenies.

[SteveL]

You're on Windows?

 

Windows key + E to bring up Windows Explorer. Find your darkmod folder. Right-click on it -> Properties. On the main tab there should be a read-only checkbox which can be empty, ticked, or with some other mark in it. Clear it and click OK. If asked whether you want to apply the setting to all subfolders, click Yes.

 

You should do this anyway at some point, or you won't be able to update TDM.

[llanita]

I've already tried that but it gets ticked right after again. It doesn't stay unticked.

 

Right I downloaded a script to take ownership and I did it for the Games folder which is where I have dm and the folders/files/

I tried taking screenshots again and still they are not showing up. I've looked in the Games folder, the DM screeenies folder, the fm folder itself and no screenies of the mission anywhere.

I've tried pasting it to Paint and all I get is a gray square.

 

I know how take screenies so it's not that I'm doing it incorrectly. As I mentioned above, I've tried using F12 and PrtScr, (which is the one to use for windows 10) and I've had no problems using that one with other games.

Edited December 19, 2015 by llanita

[AluminumHaste]

After you take a screenshot open the console (CTRL+ALT+~) and it should say something like mine:

 

Wrote screenshots/darkmod_2015-12-21_16.31.15.png

 

yours might be jpeg.

 

type in:

 

condump screenshot.txt

 

Once that's done, go to your darkmod folder and open screenshot.txt.

Go to the bottom and copy the screenshot name. In my case it's "darkmod_2015-12-21_16.31.15"

 

Open an explorer window (Windows Key + E).

Browse to the root of your darkmod drive. In my case that's C:\

In the search box at the top, paste the screenshot name in the search box and let windows search for the file to see where it's gone.

 

Hopefully it will find it.

If it was never created, the console might tell you why.

[llanita]

Hi AluminunHaste ctrl+alt+~ while in the game? If that's correct all that happens is the game is saved.

 

Edit: OK I tried it again, this time the console showed up (no idea you could do that)

And I tried again to take the screenshot but nothing at all happens.

 

I was wondering if it could be my keyboard but then I wouldn't be able to take screenies of anything.

Very odd that. I used windows logo+F12, also tried F12 by itself then tried prtscr and then winlogo+prtscr. Nothing

Edited December 21, 2015 by llanita

[AluminumHaste]

Try binding another key.

Also let's try making it take longer so you can see if its actually doing anything.

 

Try binding it to f

 

So in the console type: bind f screenshot 1920 1200 128

 

Now when you hit f in game the whole game should pause and the screen should jitter 128 times.

[llanita]

How do I close the game console to get back to game?

It worked but I thought my screen was having some kind of an attack. It went haywire for several seconds then when it stopped Garrett was upside down lol.

Since f is a game function should I try to assign f12 instead?

 

Edit: So can I adjust the 128 so that the screen doesn't convulse so long? I'm worried it will have a heart attack

Edited December 22, 2015 by llanita

[Destined]

How do I close the game console to get back to game?

 

Same combination as to open it

[SteveL]

Edit: So can I adjust the 128 so that the screen doesn't convulse so long? I'm worried it will have a heart attack

Yes, that was just for the test. You can make it 1.

 

One nice thing about TDM's screenshot facility is you can take a s/shot much larger than your screen. The s/shot does a separate render, it doesn't copy directly from your screen. If you choose a huge size, like 16000x9000, you'll see bits of the scene rendered as separate tiles that fit on your screen. Then it all gets put back together again in your resulting file.

[llanita]

Thank you so much AluminunHaste for your help. Much appreciated.

Thanks StevenL for that explanation. We learn something new every day

[AluminumHaste]

And did you find your screenshot?

[llanita]

Yes I did

[AluminumHaste]

And where was it lol?

[llanita]

I never found the first ones I thought I had taken, but the ones I took using your directions were in the screenshot folder

[AluminumHaste]

That's......weird

[Oldjim]

Regarding the Print Screen key on my Win 7 system it only puts the print into the clipboard and I need to paste it into a another program to save it

[llanita]

I think the key for doing screenies wasn't assigned, because as soon as I did what you said, it worked right away