Hide everything on-screen and screenshot file formats?

[TheMightyHeracross]

Hey, just wondering if a CCMD to hide everything on the screen is possible.
As in, everything. From Hudmessage to SBARINFO to the Alternate HUD. This would be especially usefull for screenshots.
Also, could we choose to use .png, .jpg, .bmp, .lmp etc. screenshots? For example, Realm 667 uses .jpg screenshots to save bandwith.

[Gez]

Saving as BMP: super-mega pointless.
Saving as LMP: what?

Honestly, it's better to save as PNG, then if you want to have JPG screenshots to upload somewhere, you select a few of the screenshots you've taken and you convert them with irfanview or something

[LostSkull]

I unbind the screenshot key and use FRAPS instead, configured to take in PNG format.

[Gez]

I don't see any upside to doing things this way, but more power to you I guess.

[Leonard2]

Something like r_drawvgui from the source engine.

[TheMightyHeracross]

Saving as BMP: super-mega pointless.
Saving as LMP: what?

The BMP thing was kinda stupid, I agree. I was just listing some formats. Lmp is Doom graphic format, isn't it? Maybe for one of those Alien Vendetta intermissions using screenshots of levels, although ZDoom supports .pngs, maybe for a Boom project or something? I dunno.

[Gez]

Lmp isn't anything, it's just DOS shorthand for "lump". That said, I understood you meant Doom's picture format, and it's a bad idea.

It's a paletted format (so, say goodbye to truecolor screenshots -- and yeah, ZDoom has partial truecolor display on Windows since HUD elements (including weapon sprites) are displayed in truecolor thanks to [wiki]Direct3D[/wiki]) which isn't supported by any image editing tool. So you'd have to load them up in SLADE 3 to do anything with them first... And guess what? SLADE 3 supports PNG.

There isn't any case when exporting to a format different from PNG would actually be a good idea.

[LostSkull]

I don't see any upside to doing things this way, but more power to you I guess.

[Xaser]

You asked for this:

[LostSkull]

Dear God, what have I created...

[Leonard2]

CCMD to hide everything on the screen

What about this ?

[Gez]

It suffered the usual fate of worthwhile suggestions lumped along with pointless suggestion in a thread full of stupid spam.

[Leonard2]

May I make a new suggestion for it then or would it waste time ?

[jpalomo]

Open up the console and type this:

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screenblocks 12; r_drawplayersprites 0

to revert it, set r_drawplayersprites back to 1 and screenblocks to whatever you are comfortable with. This won't get rid of some stuff on the HUD, but it will get rid of most of it.

[TheMightyHeracross]

I am aware of those commands. But I want this command to literally disallow anything to be printed on the screen, at all. I'll make a new request without the dumb second one I made. For example, doing that on Action Doom 2 will still show the HUD, because it uses ACS.