Does anyone know how to take a S-Shot?

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Does anyone know how to take a S-Shot?

Postby Quasar on Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:10 pm

I cant figure out how to take a screen shot. I 've pressed "print Screen" but I cant find where, or if, theyre being sent or taken.
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Postby MaXMhZ on Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:52 pm

When you press print screen the screen is captured and saved in the game folder as GRAB0000.tga grab0001.tga etc etc.these are Targa files, it's a type of graphics format, just like jpg or bmp or gif You need a graphics program to view them, like the free irfanview( http://www.irfanview.com )for example.
You can use irfanview itself also for taking screenshots. Irfan can do so in the jpg formatwhich is much snaller. tga files will not show in a browser or on the web. you need to convert them to bmp, jpg, gif or png format first, and then upload them to the net to a place where they are "visible" to other users/computers You can use free picture hosts like http://www.tinypic.com, or http://www.photobucket.com . Best resize the picture to something like 640x480 before posting in a forum. You upload the picture from your computer to them and will get an URL back where it is stored.or upload to your own homepage and later use Img tags (see button Img above the edit window. when you are editing a response or a new post you press the button, insert the URL (web address ) of the picture, press Img button again, and when you post your message the picture will show in the browser and on the forum
you can also insert the imgage URL, select it with the mouse and press the Img button to surround it with tags, just like you can to make text bold, italic, and underlined (the other buttons next to Img

Every new game you start will reset the gscreenshot counter to 0000, so every new game will overwrite the pictures you took previous
It's better to use irfanview to take screenshots.
it saves the pictures to a folder you decide.
the pictures can be directly in jpg format and don't need conversion later.
because the pictures are in jpg and smaller in filesize you can take screenshots faster
the screenshots don't get overwritten every new game you start.
It's better to define a key for quick-record under the Control section in game. just press that key when you start and end a game, and later you can play back the recorded track. You will then have all views available and the time commands will work too so you can get a better view before taking the screenshot you can concentrate in the sreenshot instead of flying the plane
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Postby Proud IL2 ACE on Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:39 am

Try this.
http://www.wspilots.com/index.php?page= ... le_id=2089
I use it and it works great. Read the Readme for more info.
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