Screenshots

[Sabever 0]

Easy question for everyone.  The patch 1.12 download emulator allows you to printscreen to create screenshots.  Unfortunately these screenshots come out in an unreadable format.  When I try to open them with the default photo programs in windows 7 and 10, they end up being a bunch of jibberish and no actual screen shot.

 

Is there an easy way to convert these screenshots into actual pictures, so that I can document my journey to 60?

[Winfernal 0]

TGAtoJPG should be in the screenshot folder, use it

[Sabever 0]

Is this a program?  I only see the screenshots listed.

[arbet 9]

/console screenshotFormat jpg

 

Just type that into the chat box in game and it will switch all future screenshots to jpg.

 

You can also up the picture quality of screenshots - /console screenshotQuality 10

Or change 10 to anything between 1-10, default quality is 3. It basically just reduces the compression.

Edited December 15, 2016 by arbet

[arbet 9]

delet this

Edited December 15, 2016 by arbet

[Winfernal 0]

Is this a program?  I only see the screenshots listed.

 

Oh, yeah! It's i my screenshot folder. 

 

http://www.megafileupload.com/867o/TGAtoJPG.rar

 

I uploaded it, you can try it if you want

[Sabever 0]

Thanks for all of the help. 

[Faith 5]

Easy question for everyone.  The patch 1.12 download emulator allows you to printscreen to create screenshots.  Unfortunately these screenshots come out in an unreadable format.  When I try to open them with the default photo programs in windows 7 and 10, they end up being a bunch of jibberish and no actual screen shot.

 

Is there an easy way to convert these screenshots into actual pictures, so that I can document my journey to 60?

this is not really an unreadable format.. it's just a format that is not really that common anymore.

You can snag this free program open them and then save them out in a more user friendly format. (youngsters these days! hehe kidding)

 

This is like a poor man's photoshop.

 

http://www.dotpdn.com/files/paint.net.4.0.13.install.zip

 

Edited December 15, 2016 by Faith

[Papajimboh 12]

^^ That's what I was doing also during the stress tests, just converting them. But thanks for the console command, Arbet! 

[Faith 5]

/console screenshotFormat jpg

 

Just type that into the chat box in game and it will switch all future screenshots to jpg.

 

You can also up the picture quality of screenshots - /console screenshotQuality 10

Or change 10 to anything between 1-10, default quality is 3. It basically just reduces the compression.

Very cool thanks for this command Arbet!

[El_Risitas 0]

The "/console screenshotFormat jpg" command is not working for me, maybe my client is just too old. I just used VLC player to open those .tga screenshots in the past. xd

[arbet 9]

^ you can't access the console commands without the chat window... which you need to be playing a character for. Since the servers are not up yet youll have to wait for them to go live. Unless you're playing on a different private server... in which case I dunno what to say. But that command is the correct one I believe. It worked on Nostalrius.

Edited December 15, 2016 by arbet

[El_Risitas 0]

I tested it on retro-wow but maybe the command is not implemented on this server, or it probably is my client.

[Pistolero 0]

/console screenshotFormat jpg

 

Just type that into the chat box in game and it will switch all future screenshots to jpg.

 

You can also up the picture quality of screenshots - /console screenshotQuality 10

Or change 10 to anything between 1-10, default quality is 3. It basically just reduces the compression.

 

I don't think that console command is in vanilla. From what I have found it only exists in v2.1 and up...

[arbet 9]

oh really? I could have sworn I used it on Nostalrius. Maybe I'm confusing it with retail but I haven't played retail in years. 

I was definitely using console command s on nost and I'm sure I changed my screenshot quality using that command.

Edited December 15, 2016 by arbet

[Pistolero 0]

oh really? I could have sworn I used it on Nostalrius. Maybe I'm confusing it with retail but I haven't played retail in years. 

I was definitely using console command s on nost and I'm sure I changed my screenshot quality using that command.

 

I'd love for you to be right. I guess we'll be able to test it on Saturday!  (fingers crossed)

 

I did try it on Kronos II just now and it didn't do anything for me.

 

Maybe you were doing it before but the console command was different?

[Xom 8]

Why not just use Fraps?

[Undertanker 88]

Why not just use Fraps?

Bad quality and only records 30 seconds without buy-in it.

[Xom 8]

Bad quality? All my screenshots look lovely.

 

And who said anything about recording? I believe we're in a screenshot thread.

[arbet 9]

I'd completely forgot Fraps takes screenshots. I would assume Fraps is probably a lot better than the WoW one as it compresses the image quite significantly, even at the highest quality.

[Nostalrius News 0]

I use lightshot for just about everything, work, gaming, etc. 

 

http://prnt.sc/