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How do you take screenshots on Halo PC?

  • 02.14.2007 5:50 PM PDT
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Press the "PrtScn" button on your keyboard (usually by F12, or the backspace key), minimize from Halo, go into paint, and press ctrl v (paste).

Or, if you have Xfire, you can use that by pressing "Scroll lock S"

or you can use FRAPS

  • 02.14.2007 5:59 PM PDT
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Damn, beaten. Curse you snowysnowcones. :(

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  • 02.14.2007 5:59 PM PDT

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don't you need to add -screenshot to the end of your command line or is that not necessary?

  • 02.14.2007 6:01 PM PDT
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Paint?

[Edited on 2/14/2007]

  • 02.14.2007 6:27 PM PDT
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don't you need to add -screenshot to the end of your command line or is that not necessary?

I think that's so it saves the screenshots taken... it's not necessary, though.

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  • 02.14.2007 6:31 PM PDT

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Add me to your friends list if you haven't already. It's a lot more fun to play with people from The Maw and people I know than random noobs.

I don't have -screenshot on the command line and I can still take screenies.

  • 02.14.2007 6:51 PM PDT
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Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

What about if you're playing on Mac?

  • 02.14.2007 7:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: riddyrules


Paint?


It comes with Microsoft's operating systems???

  • 02.14.2007 7:36 PM PDT

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you can use -screenshot, I think you still use prt scrn to take shots, and it saves it in a .tga format, which you need macromedia fireworks or a good picture program to open it up

.tga is pretty high quality

  • 02.14.2007 7:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Use Irfanview for all your image viewing needs and Photoshop for all your editing needs.

-screenshots enables halo's built in screenshot taker(for lack of a better term) and halo saves them without you needing to minimize halo and paste into a program such as paint everytime you take a new shot.

  • 02.14.2007 8:38 PM PDT
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If you use the standard PrintScreen key, it will only record one shot at a time. It's best to go with -screenshot in the target line. But you can always use the trial version of fraps to take screenies for you.

  • 02.14.2007 9:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: n357
What about if you're playing on Mac?

Command + Shift + 3

It saves the screen as a .pdf file on your desktop at whatever resolution you're playing Halo at.

  • 02.14.2007 10:26 PM PDT

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Add me to your friends list if you haven't already. It's a lot more fun to play with people from The Maw and people I know than random noobs.

Posted by: n357
What about if you're playing on a Mac?

You should go buy a new computer with Windows Vista™

  • 02.15.2007 3:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: n357
What about if you're playing on a Mac?

You should go buy a new computer with Windows Vista™
But... but... Micro$ith wants ur moneyz!!!!!!!11!!1!!111!!1Shift+Eleven!!!!

  • 02.15.2007 3:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: RustBandit
Posted by: n357
What about if you're playing on a Mac?

You should go buy a new computer with Windows Vista

I doubt he needs a new OS to take screenshots.

  • 02.15.2007 3:29 PM PDT
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This article is basicly the same for Halo PC.

How to configure Halo CE for Screenshots and Console
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?nid=319

  • 02.15.2007 3:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: UXB
This article is basicly the same for Halo PC.

How to configure Halo CE for Screenshots and Console
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?nid=319



UXB FTW.

Btw, .tga files can still be uploaded to picture hosting websites, and can still be viewed with a easy, double click I hope? 'Cause sorry if I sound dumb, but I've never heard of a .tga file before.

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Posted by: Iron Curtain
I'm going to conform to the Maw elitist psyche.

LOL STUPID NOOB USE GOOGLE OR LOOK AT THE STICKIES YOU STUPID NOOB


-Nothing in the stickies about .tga files.

-Google? Seriously, I stopped trusting that site since ages ago. You could either get NO information at all, or get so much excessive bull-blam!-, it STILL doesn't answer legit questions/find legit sites.

  • 02.15.2007 4:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: lpjuunin
'Cause sorry if I sound dumb, but I've never heard of a .tga file before.
It is not a widely common format on the web so there is no shame in not knowing. It it is a bitmap file formats for storage of 24- and 32-bit truecolor images which makes the files sizes much larger than JPG which introduces data loss in favor of compression. TGA stands for "Truevision Targa Graphic".

I can not speak to image hosting sites accepting them since I never use them however you will most likely need to accquire a graphics program that can view them to look at them locally.

  • 02.16.2007 7:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: UXB
Posted by: lpjuunin
'Cause sorry if I sound dumb, but I've never heard of a .tga file before.
It is not a widely common format on the web so there is no shame in not knowing. It it is a bitmap file formats for storage of 24- and 32-bit truecolor images which makes the files sizes much larger than JPG which introduces data loss in favor of compression. TGA stands for "Truevision Targa Graphic".

I can not speak to image hosting sites accepting them since I never use them however you will most likely need to accquire a graphics program that can view them to look at them locally.


Cool, thanks UXB, for the explanation. But why did they choose it to be .tga? I mean, I'm happy with .bmp or .jpg, and the only way to do that is to constantly minimize. And I have a very slow CPU, so it takes a while for my computer to get back to its desktop when I minimize, and vice versa. So I always get logged off from the server...=/

  • 02.16.2007 8:02 AM PDT

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I thought those were screenshots....is there a FREE program that will open .tga's?

Please let there be one. ::prays::

  • 02.16.2007 9:01 AM PDT
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The Halo Movies Website http://www.halomovies.org
The Halo CE Chronicles http://hcec.halomaps.org

But why did they choose it to be .tga? I mean, I'm happy with .bmp or .jpg, I don't know for sure other than to guess that the format may be more suitable for the quick capture and writing to file than the others, or there may be licensing issues. JPG is quite processor intensive and always introduces loss of image detail and the BMP format was originally only 256 colors. In any case .TGA is a well supported format.

You can always download GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) which is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, The program supports the file formats GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others from http://www.gimp.org it is available for UNIX, Linux, Windows and MAC OS X

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  • 02.16.2007 3:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: UXB
This article is basicly the same for Halo PC.

How to configure Halo CE for Screenshots and Console
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?nid=319



That applies to almost every game and every program since thats h ow you add the switches for the program, it's a windows thing not a halo thing.

Posted by: Synthmilk
I thought those were screenshots....is there a FREE program that will open .tga's?

Please let there be one. ::prays::


Google irfanview, it's the first result. It is the best freeware image viewing program as it supports almost every format you can think of and then some. It's the VLC of images.

  • 02.16.2007 11:35 PM PDT