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No screen cap with ARC?

damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
edited June 2014 in The Academy
Doesn't ARC have a built in screen capture?
A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
"Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    The game itself has built-in capability to take screenshots, both with and without the UI.

    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Screenshot
  • damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    virusdancer wrote: »
    The game itself has built-in capability to take screenshots, both with and without the UI.

    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Screenshot

    Which don't work when you have Steam installed.
    A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
    "Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    damzelltrill wrote: »
    Which don't work when you have Steam installed.

    When did that change?
  • policestate76policestate76 Member Posts: 1,424 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    damzelltrill wrote: »
    Which don't work when you have Steam installed.

    I dont understand, you telling that assigning a bind key to take screenshots, it doesnt work? its because STO cant find the screenshot folder? if thats the case, you right, there is no way to take screenshots.

    You can use the print screen key on the keyboard, and paste the image into any image editing program. Unfortunately this doesnt work either in some systems..

    Before you do that, use ALT+F12 to hide the ui..

    More than that, i dont have a clue.
  • kapla1755kapla1755 Member Posts: 1,249
    edited June 2014
    Steam uses the F12 key by default to take screenshots but I would get the rearrange HUD interfance on my screencaps so I simply rebound the default steam screencap cap to F11 and that solved my problem if i wanted to take shots without the UI the alt-F12 to remove the HUD. haven't tried screen caps in ARC as I only run the arc client when picking up the special items like the Khan outfit. :D
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • midnightvisionmidnightvision Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    damzelltrill wrote: »
    Which don't work when you have Steam installed.

    I run STO through Steam all the time, and don't have any troubles taking screenshots with the Print Screen key. They're located in my C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Trek Online\Live\screenshots\ directory. Yours may differ, according to where your Steam is installed.
  • kalvorax#3775 kalvorax
    kalvorax#3775
         Member Posts: 1,663 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    i just do a bind that isnt in use to /screenshot_jpg or /screenshot_ui_jpg. easy
  • policestate76policestate76 Member Posts: 1,424 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    midnightvision wrote: »
    I run STO through Steam all the time, and don't have any troubles taking screenshots with the Print Screen key. They're located in my C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Trek Online\Live\screenshots\ directory. Yours may differ, according to where your Steam is installed.

    That method only works on some people, in fact i remember that when i used the print screen method, the game NEVER placed the screencap in the screenshots folder. I needed to paste it manually in some image editing program.
  • damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    let me clear up what I meant:

    when Steam is installed it's screen cap system subverts the game's built in one. Steam's screen cap works fine for me. How ever when I am logged in on ARC or just through the launcher, I can't screen cap.
    A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
    "Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
  • unkoalaunkoala Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    damzelltrill wrote: »
    let me clear up what I meant:

    when Steam is installed it's screen cap system subverts the game's built in one. Steam's screen cap works fine for me. How ever when I am logged in on ARC or just through the launcher, I can't screen cap.
    Steam doesnt subverts anything.
    As its been explained there's a conflict with the steam screenshot and the f12 but, you can take in-game screenshots with the star trek one. You only neeed to change the keys used to take screenshots, example:

    on the chat line write /bind f9 screenshot and you'll take tga screenshots without the ui with the f9 key but remember, you need to do that to space and ground regions.
    If you want jpg screen shots the command is screenshot_jpg, with ui is screenshot_ui

    Yo can see easily see your binding keys on the game menu, key binds tab and clicking on show keyboard, when you move the mouse around the keys you will see the key binds for ground or space (yoy can change that on region)

    So, the most easily way to resolve that is: clear the f12 function to take steam screenshot (remeber steam screenshot doesnt save on the star trek online folder) and bind to f8-printscreen keys the screenshot command that will take normal screenshot of the game and save them on the star trek online folders.
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