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Taking screenshots from the character select screen


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When I try this, nothing happens. When I take screenshots in-game, they are saved to the screenshots folder in Tequila. Not so when I try from the character select screen. I tried Print Screen and copying to Paint, but that gets me an entirely black screenshot. What am I doing wrong?

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What I do to get around it in Win7 is hit the Windows key twice. Then Print Screen.

The first press brings up a menu and pushes the game to the background and the second

removes the menu but leaves it in the background until you click the game again or hit Alt+Tab.

 

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I run in fullscreen windowed mode, and it seems like copying the CoH (Alt+Print Screen) screen to the clipboard copies whatever was on the screen when I last tabbed in or selected the CoH screen.  So I was having luck selecting a program on my other monitor, clicking back on CoH when the animation on the character select screen was at a point I wanted to capture, using Alt+Print Screen, then pasting into IrfanView.  I managed to get a set of reference pictures from the power customization screen that way.

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You can also use a screenshot app, like the Snipping Tool which comes with Windows.

 

Edit: Hah, I see Evercent had the same suggestion. I had typed mine out bot forgot to post when detracted by Discord. XD

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Dislike certain sounds? Silence/Modify specific sounds. Looking for modified whole powerset sfx?

Check out Michiyo's modder or Solerverse's thread.  Got a punny character? You should share it.

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1 minute ago, The Philotic Knight said:

I reccommend Greenshot, because it's free and it's frickin' AMAZING:

 

https://getgreenshot.org/

 

 

 

I used to use Snagit at work to create visual guides for testers. Great tool, but not free.

Dislike certain sounds? Silence/Modify specific sounds. Looking for modified whole powerset sfx?

Check out Michiyo's modder or Solerverse's thread.  Got a punny character? You should share it.

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My default picture viewer is XnView.  Here is how I capture any picture of whatever I want. First, I hit 'Prt Scr' then open XnView. From the dropdown menu I click on 'import Clipboard' and the image appears. From there, I can crop it and use the tools to tweak. Then a quick 'save as' with a name and I am done.

 

I also use the last FREE version of FastStone Capture (Here's the link for anyone who wants it) GREAT little program.)

 

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"Freeware" if you can get an old (make sure it's clean) version of the app, but I've been using the PaintShop Pro editor's built-in screenshot function. It works independent of the OS/game and will ALWAYS work so long as you don't bind a power to the same keys (if you did, then you'd get like a billion screenshots at random :p). I've never had an issue with it and it's nice because then I can edit them with a Photoshop like app. ^.^

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7 hours ago, Healix said:

WanderingAries, I LOVE PaintShop Pro and have used it for years. Great suggestion for those who have it!

Yeah...I've been kinda sorta using it since oh say Beta (Win3-Win95) when it was on floppies and still owned by Jasc. :p

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I got Greenshot for stuff I was helping out with for SEGS, its really pretty awesome, I love the freeze frame it gives you so I can hit print screen at the right point in the animation, but have time to pick my area to capture.

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