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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Hi there, so I figured out that pressing the Print Screen button will take a screen shot. I was somewhat pleased that the game automatically removed the UI from the screen shot. Usually in other MMOs I play I have to make the UI invisible first before taking a screen shot. However, this leads me to a question. What if I need to take a screen shot of the UI? Is there a way to force the game to include the UI in the screen shot?

Thanks!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    /screenshot_ui_jpg
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    coderanger wrote:
    /screenshot_ui_jpg

    I don't know what that means..
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    coderanger wrote:
    /screenshot_ui_jpg

    type this into your chat window
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    is there any way we can maybe get a toggle for this instead of a command... or is there a way to rebind printscreen to do *that* command instead of the default one?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    You used to be able to hold shift or ctrl when you hit printscreen to get a screenshot. No clue if you still can.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yes, I believe you can bind the screenshot UI function to Control + PrintScreen. The issue I've found with that is that when you press Control + PrintScreen, it'll take the UI screenshot *and* a non-UI screenshot, effectively doubling the amount of disk space you use when taking screenshots (unless you like going in there and manually deleting the non-UI screens on a regular basis).

    I wrestled with this one for a while. I couldn't figure out how to bind this command to a key other than a basic letter or number key. Eventually I realized that if you open the key binds option menu, you can use that to find the name for whatever key you want to use.

    For example, I wanted to use my asterisk key on the numpad for screenshots (a default in an older MMO I used to play, so I'm used to it). By using the key binds menu I discovered that this key is referred to by the game as "multiply." So I just used the command:0

    /bind multiply screenshot_ui_jpg

    Another good alternative might be the Pause key, since it isn't used for anything else (to my knowledge) and is located in the same area of the keyboard as PrintScreen.

    To be honest, I wish they'd just add the screenshot options to the keybind menu. Trying to rebind this function is overly complicated for something that's very easy to do in any other game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    /screenshot_ui_jpg - seems to leave the hud behind now when it used to ignore the hud, am I doing something wrong?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    wrote:
    /screenshot_ui_jpg - seems to leave the hud behind now when it used to ignore the hud, am I doing something wrong?
    You are thinking of /screenshot_jpg. The _ui variants specifically include the HUD.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    To take a screen shot without the HUD, is Alt & Print Scrn button at the same time.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Where do the images save to?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Necro-tastic, but $INSTALL_FOLDER/Star Trek Online/Live/screenshots, where $INSTALL_FOLDER is probably C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios assuming you are on Vista/7.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Wasn't/isn't there just a Screenshot hot-key? I couldn't find it in the Keybinds window?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    coderanger wrote:
    Necro-tastic, but $INSTALL_FOLDER/Star Trek Online/Live/screenshots, where $INSTALL_FOLDER is probably C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios assuming you are on Vista/7.

    Thanks for the info Coderanger! I just got a new machine with Windows 7 and had no idea where to look for the screenshot folder. And by the way, just hitting 'Print Screen' takes a pic w/o the UI showing up. Instant wallpaper!
  • fighterifightfighterifight Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Ok so IF it is taking a screen shot the where is it going, i cant seem to find it.
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