Screenshots?

[Zebedee]

I'm having some difficulty taking screenshots of the game (I've searched using the term 'screenshots' and got no matches..).

Any suggestions? Is it a case of having to use the old 'Ultima' screenshot utility despite the conversion to windows?

Thanks in advance,

Zeb

[Smersh]

taking a normal prnt scrn screenshot should work in windowed mode.

[Mobhack]

When in Windowed mode the game is a Windows Desktop application. Therefore use PRINT SCRN for the entire desktop or ALT+PRINT SCRN for just the current active window, puts the screen capture into the windows paste buffer. Then open a graphics application (e.g. irfanview) and select PASTE.

Since that is normal behaviour for the windows O/S, and is described in the usual Microsoft Windows documentation there is no neeed to mention it in the Game Guide. That is how we got the screen shots for the Game Guide after all.

However, when the game is in full screen DirectX mode, you would need some sort of third party full screen DirectX screen capture utility. We dont make one, nor do we use one (as windowed mode provides the Windows O/S print screen function) so we don't describe any.

Cheers
Andy

[Zebedee]

Apologies, I should have made it clear that I know how to use print screen - but as it should have been clear from the fact that I know of the old trick to take screenshots, I thought it rather pointless to mention

Sadly, taking a normal screenshot isn't working, which is why I posted. I'm getting ye olde 'black screen with lots of sparkly odd bits scattered over the screen' bug.

Playing with free download version in 800x600. So far tried paint and photoshop. Not getting anything but the bugged picture.

Thanks for the info on full screen. Will go hunt down a direct X capture programme and see if running it in full screen will get me some screenshots.

[Mobhack]

Sadly, taking a normal screenshot isn't working, which is why I posted. I'm getting ye olde 'black screen with lots of sparkly odd bits scattered over the screen' bug.

In full screen DirectX mode?. It is using a 256 colour fully palletised mode then. You may need to tell your DirectX screen capture programme that fact.

(edit: which is not the same as the windows 256 colour palette, it uses the "reserved" slots in the palette that Windows uses for GUI, so if I had used yes/no/cancel standard windows message boxes (I experimented with these and they worked fine in windowed mode then they came up in weird colours in F/S DirectX mode, some with cycling colours as I recall ! )

Search for "palette.lbm" - that file is loaded as the basic game palette file by WinVFX. The DirectX screen capture progamme may need that info?.

(In windowed mode, Winvfx uses the direct R,G,B values and computes for the windows colour depth and not a direct load into the hardware pallette register. But that is about all I know as it is a third-party GFX system

Cheers
Andy

[Zebedee]

Thanks Mobhack.

Just been playing about with the Ultima utility and that seems to work for me (despite the 600+ pictures it takes for every sceenshot ).

Just thought it odd that the windowed version still had this problem. Must be something with my system I guess if your screenshots were taken with printscreen.

Will dig out a direct X capture programme and try your advice as that may be a better solution to my problem.

Gracias again,

Zeb

[Mobhack]

All shots taken with windowed mode, I always use full colour mode (32 bit), not 16 bit if that makes any difference.

Cheers
Andy