screenshots
screenshots
well, this sounds pretty stupid, but i dunno how to take screenshots.
Check your zdoom.ini file, there might already be a key bound to screenshot - this for example: sysrq=screenshot
You'll also see these in the .ini file:
screenshot_type=png <--- sets graphics file format
screenshot_quiet=false <--- makes the word "screenshot" appear
You can bind a key other than sysrq to screenshot if you want.
I'm not sure what the valid screenshot graphics formats are, I think pcx is one. Can anyone comment about this, what the options are and the pros/cons? Thx.
You'll also see these in the .ini file:
screenshot_type=png <--- sets graphics file format
screenshot_quiet=false <--- makes the word "screenshot" appear
You can bind a key other than sysrq to screenshot if you want.
I'm not sure what the valid screenshot graphics formats are, I think pcx is one. Can anyone comment about this, what the options are and the pros/cons? Thx.
uhh, zdoom writes 256 color pngs, so 1024 shots should be around 200k not 2000 :P . zdoomgl is another story, that writes true color pngs which are rather large, but it's no worse than the massive tgas or bmps the majority of games write these days.cccp_leha wrote:PNG's are great but hefty. I run ZDoom in 1024x768 and on average, a shot is ~2 MB. When I change it to JPEG with Fireworks, its only ~90 KB and there is not much noticable quality loss.
as for viewing pngs, you can view them in any browser, though many, many people with quicktime have a problem since quicktime is a piece of crap that attempts to associate itself with pngs even though it can't open them. I have quicktime only associated with .mov files, which is what I suggest, because otherwise it'll associate itself with every file format it can get its grubby mits on.
edit: actually I just tried a 1024 png and it's only 81k, but I was looking at a spot with a fairly low color count.
but still.
Now wait a second, I tried opening your attached screenshot in PSP and saving it to a new PNG. The new file was about 500K. And even that is much larger than it should be. The explanation is that your screenshot has been blurred from JPEG compression, which makes re-conversion to PNG perform much worse.
The original PNG screenshot could not have been bigger than about 100-200K. If it was, then there is something extremely weird going on with ZDoom's PNG compression.
Have you checked the value of png_level in the config (or from the console)? The default is 5, which gives a good tradeoff between speed and compression. If you've set it to 0 or something like that, you should expect large files. Try something in the range 5-9 instead.
The original PNG screenshot could not have been bigger than about 100-200K. If it was, then there is something extremely weird going on with ZDoom's PNG compression.
Have you checked the value of png_level in the config (or from the console)? The default is 5, which gives a good tradeoff between speed and compression. If you've set it to 0 or something like that, you should expect large files. Try something in the range 5-9 instead.
Why didn't you just post a screenshot made by the game instead of one written by Macromedia Fireworks 4.0? The image you have is 32 bits, not 8 bits like the one from ZDoom would be. Firework's image is also poorly compressed. Like Fredrik, by just opening the image in Photoshop and resaving with the SuperPNG plugin (Photoshop's PNG saving also sucks, but not as bad as Firework's apparently), the image is only 500k. Converting it back to a 256 color image (though not with the Doom palette, because there are some extra colors in there), it shrank down to only 144k.
Also, an 8-bit 1024x768 image will be a maximum size of 768k. That is with no compression at all. A typical image will be much smaller as long as you leave compression turned on.
Also, an 8-bit 1024x768 image will be a maximum size of 768k. That is with no compression at all. A typical image will be much smaller as long as you leave compression turned on.
