In game screen shots

tgrey · Post by **tgrey** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:42 pm

I was in the middle of typing that I could not get these to work, but I decided to look harder first. I realized that it *IS* working, it's just putting the screenshots somewhere a little ridiculous (in /home/tgrey)

IMHO it would be a good idea to put these in ~/.armagetronad/screenshots/ or something similar. My ~ directory is about the equivalent of dropping files on a windows desktop. I'll find them eventually, but it's not going to be the first place I look, and it's hard to find in the clutter.

I finally noticed when there were >20 bmp's there, lol

Post by **Tank Program** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:45 am

Hmm yes... Some sort of customizable drop off point would be good...

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:06 am

tgrey: You're right. Screenshots were put into the current directory ( certainly the home directory if you start AA from a start menu and the main AA directory in Windows ), and they belong somewhere into the var subdirectory like all output files. I changed that in current CVS. I omitted the screenshots subdirectory since the crossplatform directory creation code is not yet available in the CVS trunk.

I also made it so that screenshots don't get overwritten with other screenshots. The algorithm is slow ( tries each number in perfect order and sees if the screenshot filename is already taken ), but does its job.

Tank: Let's not get too crazy with customization. It's only screenshots, they have no ingame function. Wherever they are put, you can move them easily to where you want them to be after leaving the game.

If someone else wants to improve screenshots: the relevant code is in rSysdep.cpp, function make_screenshot.

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:37 pm

when you restart armagetron it resets the file number back to 1 so taking more screen shots overwrites the previous

you may want to fix this would be simple to keep a counter in a cfg file or if ya wanna be real fancy then scan the folder to determine the last number used

tgrey · Post by **tgrey** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:27 pm

i like to stamp output files like that with date/time instead. 04-21-05_09-08.bmp or something similar. then there will be no dupes.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:36 pm

Iceman:

z-man wrote:I also made it so that screenshots don't get overwritten with other screenshots. The algorithm is slow ( tries each number in perfect order and sees if the screenshot filename is already taken ), but does its job.

I scan the directory for that. That's better than a config variable because tons of people would not know how to reset a config variable to one.

tgrey: that's a good idea, too.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:01 pm

Reminds me of something... On OS X screenshots are written to Armagetron.app/Contents/Resources/ (tedious to get there every time) in RGB (BMP is BGR).

Post by **dlh** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:16 pm

Jonathan wrote:Reminds me of something... On OS X screenshots are written to Armagetron.app/Contents/Resources/ (tedious to get there every time) in RGB (BMP is BGR).

That annoys me too, especially the messed up colors.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:34 pm

You can fix the colors in Photoshop with the color matrix (I think it is called the channel mixer). You could write a program which fixes the BMPs, or just fix Armagetron.

Post by **dlh** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:53 pm

Jonathan wrote:You can fix the colors in Photoshop with the color matrix (I think it is called the channel mixer). You could write a program which fixes the BMPs, or just fix Armagetron.

In 2.6.0 (or 2.5.2, can't remember), your config files were stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron, but now they are in /Library/Application Support/Armagetron. The whole file structure for arma os x needs to be redone, I think. Screenshots should go to ~/Library/AS/Armagetron/Screenshots, and config files should move back to there also.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:56 pm

Jonathan wrote:You can fix the colors in Photoshop with the color matrix (I think it is called the channel mixer). You could write a program which fixes the BMPs, or just fix Armagetron.

Um, that doesn't work. Anyone have any other ideas, especially for a quick fix? I have Photoshop 7 and have tried numerous things...there's probably something simple that I've overlooked.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:06 pm

Image -> Adjustments -> Channel Mixer
Swap red and blue.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:10 pm

Oh. Duh. I knew it'd be something simple. I was over-adjusting everything. Danke.